Preaching Notes – Sunday, 8 September 2024
In today’s Gospel, Jesus dares to venture beyond the land of Israel where we have witnessed religious leaders especially mired in stubbornly keeping the “tradition
Author: Fr. Dave Nuss
Preaching Notes – Sunday, September 1
How well we all know that it is not want presses upon us from the outside that makes us unclean and defiles, but rather what
Feast Day: Martyrdom of John the Baptist – 29 August 2024
JOHN THE BAPTIST is the only saint whom we honor on both the occasion of his birth and his death. The Church wants to inspire
Preaching Notes – Sunday, 25 August 2024
Today Gospel Reading chronicles the dramatic culmination of the 5-week study of John 6 (John 6:60-69). Will we find Jesus’ teaching too demanding as did
Preaching Notes – Sunday 18 August 2024
Today we come to the very clear part of Jesus’ long discourse that is linked to the Eucharist (John 6:51-58). Throughout the discourse Jesus insists
Preaching Notes – Sunday, 11 August 2024
The food God graciously provides the exhausted and terrified prophet Elijah in our First Reading (1 Kings 19:4-8), is another example of Old Testament foreshadowing
Feast: Jesus’ Transfiguration – August 6
O Sweet Jesus, grant that your grace – power – may triumph in me and empower me to persevere through life’s trials with eyes set
Preaching Notes – Sunday, 4 August 2024
Today is Sunday #2 of our 5 consecutive Sundays reading together select excepts from John 6. Front and center for us is the deep misunderstanding
Preaching Notes (Sun) 28 July 2024
The Gospel writer John notes that the 5 barely loaves and fish came from a little boy. From a worldly point-of-view it may as well
Preaching Notes (Sun) 21 July 2024
Ignatius’ EXAMEN is a prayer practice that helps us find God in all aspects of daily living. So powerful is this prayer practice that Ignatius