Recordings of Sunday homilies, special liturgies, and other messages from the Emmaus Pastorate.
Episodes
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Do you have leprosy? Probably not...at least literally. And that's a good thing! But maybe we all suffer from some leprosy today, and maybe we all treat some people as lepers. Do you? Have you? Fr. John explains how this disease might still prevail in the 21st century.
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Somedays are just Job days, aren't they? Nothing seems to go right, and it would be so much easier to blame God and cruse him for it! But Job, Christ, and then St. Paul each show us how perseverance, discipline, and faithfulness have their rewards in the end. And what's more - our perseverance, discipline, and faithfulness will affect others in ways we just won't know. Fr. John gives us some tools to get through those Job days, even when the world says to just cave into pressures.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
There are so many voices to hear these days, and the same was true back in Jesus' time. But back then his was a new voice, a strange one, so very contrary to the times. Perhaps it's just what we need today. Fr. John implores us, as did King David, "If today you hear God's voice, harden not your hearts!"
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
An audio recording of the annual Town Hall held at Sacred Heart Parish on January 25, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
An audio recording of the annual Town Hall at St. Joseph Parish on January 16, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Being a missionary doesn't usually work well if you go into a heathen town and proclaim everyone's going to hell, even if that's true. Building relationships - establishing and maintaining net(work)s - is far more effective. So what's that got to do with Jonah, the whale, and the sons of Zebedee? Fr. John tells us more in his homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
"The harvest of justice is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace." These are the words of St. James. The work of peace requires cultivation. To reap justice and righteousness, we must sow, labor for, and grow peace. Fr. John has this message as we pray for our country on the eve the inauguration of the next president of the United States.
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
As we begin Ordinary Time and 2021, we start to think about this new year. As we do, let us give God a chance to speak to us as young Samuel did. Let us say quietly, as if waking during the night saying, "Speak, Lord, your servant is listening."
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
A divided nation needs a united church. A divided church needs a united Emmaus Pastorate. A united Emmaus Pastorate needs you; it needs all of us. Fr. John has more on the need to be a unified people in this homily from the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Just like the magi left the little Lord Jesus "by a different way," so we must also come to him and leave by a different route. How can we encounter Christ, and not be changed in some way? Fr. John has all this and more in his homily from the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Jesus Christ!