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Monday Mar 17, 2025

523. Fr. Ryan Homily - The Many Facets of Prayer

Monday Mar 17, 2025

The story of Jesus' Transfiguration reveals many truths about communicating with God.

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Monday Mar 10, 2025

522. Fr. Ryan Homily - Jesus and Temptation

Monday Mar 10, 2025

We can think that because we are tempted, we are bad people, as temptation can lead to sin. But temptation is not sin. It actually makes us like Jesus, who was also tempted by Satan. When we are tempted, we call on Jesus to be with us and help us to resist the lure of Satan to sin.

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Wednesday Mar 05, 2025

521. Fr. Ryan Homily - Rend Your Hearts

Wednesday Mar 05, 2025

As we enter the season of Lent, are we entering with busy hearts, just trying to fit everything into our lives. Or, are we approaching Lent with humility and gentleness, as a time of retreat, allowing ourselves to be loved by God?

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Monday Mar 03, 2025

519. Fr. Ryan Homily - What Do You Have Stored Away in Your Heart?

Monday Mar 03, 2025

Quite often, what is stored away in our heart is our neglect of ourselves. When we take the time to listen to and honor what is in our hearts and share it with the Lord, we are able to come alive, and live in the Father's love.

This homily was preached at the Marriages of Grace Catholic Marriages Day by Day Event.

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Monday Feb 24, 2025

516. Year of Beauty Homily- Beauty Unites

Monday Feb 24, 2025

When we take part in the Mass, we are engaging in something holy, where God touches earth in the sacred mysteries. We use exquisite vestments, adorn our altar, process with a fancy Gospel book, to help awaken our senses to the truth that Infinite Beauty is present with us, and speaking to us through the Mass.

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Wednesday Feb 19, 2025

514. Fr. Ryan Homily - Accessing the Deep Living Water

Wednesday Feb 19, 2025

Jesus talks about giving us living water, but how do we find it? It is in the times of silence, 15 minutes a day as Bishop Malesic suggests in his new document, A Flourishing Apostolic Church, that we find the Lord and our thirst is quenched by His living water.

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Monday Feb 10, 2025

511. Fr. Ryan Homily - You Have a Part in the Mission

Monday Feb 10, 2025

Just as Jesus got into Peter's boat, Jesus gets into ours, and asks us to be a part of His mission. His mission may take us to a far away place, but most often it is at home, with our friends and family, loving them, caring for them, and teaching them of His love.

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Monday Feb 03, 2025

509. Fr. Ryan Homily - Simeon's Encounter Is Offered to Each of Us

Monday Feb 03, 2025

Simeon waited for the Christ in the temple for years. In Simeon's perseverance and unwavering hope that what the Lord had promised would be fulfilled, we learn how to be beacons of hope and to share Christ in our daily lives.

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Monday Jan 27, 2025

506. Fr. Ryan Homily - Bringing Our Bodies to Worship

Monday Jan 27, 2025

When we come to Mass, we come with every part of us, the part that get distracted, the part that listens intently, the part that is more excited sometimes for Donut Sunday. The Lord uses all of our parts to come back to Him, especially through His word, that He can speak to us and make us whole.

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Tuesday Jan 21, 2025

505. Year of Beauty Homily - Beauty Reveals Our Hearts

Tuesday Jan 21, 2025

Beauty speaks to us in so many ways, including unexpected ones like sports. What we find beautiful points us to what is whole and complete and shows us the longings in our hearts for the Infinite Beauty, God Himself.

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Monday Jan 13, 2025

503. Fr. Ryan Homily - Living Out Our Baptismal Call

Monday Jan 13, 2025

At our Baptism, we are are washed in the waters of Christ's merciful love that we too might go out into this world to bring Christ to others. But He doesn't send us out alone, He gives us a community, specifically a parish community, which helps us to nourish and grow even in the midst of transitions.

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Monday Dec 30, 2024

501. Fr. Ryan Homily - Building a Holy Family

Monday Dec 30, 2024

As we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family, we reflect on our own families. How can we build them up to be holy? As Mother Teresa suggests, we can change the world by loving our family.

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Wednesday Dec 25, 2024

499. Fr. Ryan Christmas Homily - What Is God Like?

Wednesday Dec 25, 2024

Christmas answers for us the question, "what is God like?" Jesus comes not as someone who enforces rules and regulations, but as a little baby. He doesn't tower over us, but instead asks us to get down on his level.

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Monday Dec 23, 2024

498. Fr. Ryan Homily - Quiet, Be Still

Monday Dec 23, 2024

As Advent draws to a close we hear the story of the Visitation. We can imagine Zachariah, who was mute during his wife Elizabeth's pregnancy, was forced to simply sit, be quiet, and listen during those nine months, during which time he was able to watch the Lord grow within his home, in the womb of Mary, and also within his heart, that what was spoken to him by the Lord might be fulfilled.

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Monday Dec 16, 2024

495. Year of Beauty Homily - Beauty Leaves Us Wanting More

Monday Dec 16, 2024

As we approach Christmas and the celebration of the incarnation, Fr. Liptak reminds us that our longing for more, for Infinite Beauty, points to the place in our hearts that only the Lord can truly satisfy.

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Tuesday Dec 10, 2024

493. Fr. Ryan Homily - You Are Jesus’ Love in the World

Tuesday Dec 10, 2024

St. Paul writes "how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus" in the Second Reading. How can a man who never met Jesus know the affection and love of Jesus? He found it through other Christians who he met and learned from. We too are called to love with the affection of Jesus, so through us, others can come to know Christ.

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Monday Dec 09, 2024

492. Fr. Liptak Homily, Candlelit Mass - Light of the World

Monday Dec 09, 2024

As we celebrate Advent, the Light of the World grows brighter and brighter, in our Advent wreaths and in our hearts. This Advent season, we are invited to slow down, light a candle, and spend time with Him in the quiet, allowing Him to draw near to us and inflame us with the fire of His love.

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Wednesday Dec 04, 2024

490. Fr. Ryan Homily - Be Aware of Your Heart

Wednesday Dec 04, 2024

Our hearts animate our lives and Jesus cautions us to not let our hearts become drowsy and anxious. What are we to do instead? Jesus asks us to be aware of our hearts and share with him what is going on in your heart.

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Tuesday Dec 03, 2024

489. Fr. Ryan Homily - Return With a Thankful Heart

Tuesday Dec 03, 2024

There is something off in the human heart when we don't give thanks. This is why Jesus asks the leper who returned giving thanks where the others went. There are deeper questions that we have and encounter when we give thanks.

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Tuesday Nov 26, 2024

487. Fr. Ryan Homily - Jesus is Lord

Tuesday Nov 26, 2024

When we go to Mass we reorder our lives from the things and people that reign over them to the true king, Jesus. What are those things that we allow to reign over us? How can we give them to Jesus and allow Him to order our lives?

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Monday Nov 18, 2024

485. Fr. Ryan Homily - As We Await the Blessed Hope

Monday Nov 18, 2024

When we orient our lives on Christ, and not the restless anxiety that the world offers, we find that we wait for Him to come again in a blessed hope.

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Monday Nov 11, 2024

484. Year of Beauty Homily - Beauty Is a Sign

Monday Nov 11, 2024

Beauty is a sign of the world to come, and because of that, it is sad when it is gone. The beautiful fall leaves disappear, a moment is over, and those we love pass on. But these memories of beauty remind us that we are not made for this world, but for the world to come.

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Sunday Nov 03, 2024

482. Fr. Ryan Homily - Listen to My Word

Sunday Nov 03, 2024

The Lord asks us to "hear" and "listen" to Him as He speaks to us especially through His Word. Do we stop to listen? Or do we fill ourselves with every other kind of news and noise. What if this week we listened for Him each day?

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Monday Oct 28, 2024

480. Fr. Ryan Homily - Throw Off Your Cloak

Monday Oct 28, 2024

In the Gospel we hear the healing of Bartimaeus, who throws away his cloak of comfort to respond to the Lord's call. Our vocation in life leads us to the joy of the life that God has to offer. How will we respond to that call?

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Tuesday Oct 22, 2024

478. Fr. Ryan Homily - Jesus Loves the Angry

Tuesday Oct 22, 2024

Jesus doesn't dismiss anger and division, but rather He engages it. He draws close to those indignant with Him, and loves them. He calls us to bring the division in our hearts to Him.

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Monday Oct 07, 2024

475. Fr. Ryan Homily - Reclaiming Hearts

Monday Oct 07, 2024

There is a hardness within our hearts from pain, suffering, not being loved well, relationships, and more that the Lord desires to break through to reclaim our hearts. Jesus is not afraid of this, but He pushes through to disarm and heal our hearts.

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Monday Sep 16, 2024

471. Year of Beauty Homily - Beauty Draws Us

Monday Sep 16, 2024

"Beauty is seducing us, and without clinging to the finite, we must allow it to inspire our yearning for the Infinite, Beauty with a capital B. What must I do? I must be overcome by beauty, by beautiful things, by finding beauty everywhere.” (Albacete, Seduced and Sent)

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Monday Sep 09, 2024

469. Fr. Ryan Homily - Be Open

Monday Sep 09, 2024

In the Gospel, Jesus tells the man "be open," but the place that most needs to be open is not his eyes and mouth, but is the place that is caught up in isolation. He wants you to be open too. He wants to take you away from the crowds so you can be seen, loved, and open to Him.

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Tuesday Sep 03, 2024

468. Fr. Ryan Homily - He Loves Where It Hurts

Tuesday Sep 03, 2024

What purifies us is that God approaches us in Jesus. The purification we need comes through the encounter with Christ, coming so close that he can heal, purify, and transform us. Jesus always wants to go to the very place that is imperfect, our heart, and bring His healing love.

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Monday Aug 26, 2024

466. Fr. Ryan Homily - Power That Loves

Monday Aug 26, 2024

When a man gets down on one knee to ask for a woman's hand in marriage, he takes a humble posture, waiting patiently for her response. The Lord does the same for us in each Mass, offering Himself, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity to us in the Eucharist, and like the woman being proposed to, we respond to that love, that comes humbly and patiently, with a resounding "Yes" and "Amen!"

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Monday Aug 19, 2024

463. Fr. Ryan Homily - The Foremost Holy Day of Obligation

Monday Aug 19, 2024

Many of us attend Mass on the weekends "because we have to" and do not fully understand what the Church is asking of us in the Sunday Obligation. The Catechism says "Sunday is to be observed as the foremost Holy Day of Obligation" (CCC 2192). As we better understand the Sunday Obligation, we can come to Mass with open hearts ready to receive our Lord, and be nourished for the week ahead.

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Monday Aug 12, 2024

461. Fr. Ryan Homily - Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Monday Aug 12, 2024

The familiar can often become so normal to us that we don't realize its awesomeness. When we come to Mass, we wear beautiful vestments, have beautiful music, and are in a beautiful space because it points to something more. God wants to draw near to us, so that we might know Him as our Father, a good dad.

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Monday Aug 05, 2024

457. Fr. Ryan Homily - Food for the Journey

Monday Aug 05, 2024

Baptism frees us from the slavery to sin and puts us on the journey to heaven. Jesus gives us Himself as food for the journey. The Eucharist helps us to live the Gospel, the Catholic life and is a pledge of future glory. With it, we can live in this world, destined for the world to come.

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Monday Jul 29, 2024

456. Fr. Ryan Homily - Becoming Beloved Children

Monday Jul 29, 2024

As we read through John 6 over the next few weeks, we will be reflecting on the Bread of Life Discourse. We begin with the feeding of the 5000 where we see Phillip and Andrew show us how we are "structurally disproportionate." That instead, we should imitate the child, who shows us that faith is not a burden, its the joy of becoming beloved children again.

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Monday Jul 22, 2024

454. Fr. Ryan Homily - Rest Brings Us to Unity

Monday Jul 22, 2024

There is a great amount of disunity in our world, but we need to rely on Jesus to be our unity, He alone is our Savior. To listen to Him, He calls us to go away and rest for awhile, which brings about unity and peace in our hearts and in our world.

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Monday Jul 15, 2024

453. Fr. Ryan Homily - I Know What You’re Looking For

Monday Jul 15, 2024

Often we have an inadequate understanding of God, not bad, just not the full realization of who He is and His plan for us. St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians is a great place for us to begin to learn, so that when we are talking with friends and family who are searching we are able to say "I Know What You're Looking For."

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Monday Jul 08, 2024

451. Fr. Ryan Homily - Breaking out of Our Set Ways

Monday Jul 08, 2024

We have and fall into rituals and routines in our daily lives, and we don't like to stray from them. The Lord meets us in them and asks us to break out of our box and encounter Him. When we are able to break out of our set ways, we have a different story than Jesus' hometown crowd, and mighty deeds can be done in our lives.

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Monday Jul 01, 2024

450. Fr. Ryan Homily - The Devil Lurks in Our Busyness

Monday Jul 01, 2024

As Catholics, we believe in things seen and unseen. As much as Mary, the Saints, angels, the Lord are constantly at work in our lives, so are the evil spirits and the devil. Satan wants you totally divorced from God. In our busyness, he keeps us from the Lord, so we call on St. Michael and other holy men and women to help us fight against the attacks of the devil.

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Monday Jun 24, 2024

449. Fr. Ryan Homily - We Know Who Is in Our Boat

Monday Jun 24, 2024

Throughout all of the storms in our lives, the Lord, the Almighty One, is right there in the boat with you. When we cry out "do you not care that we are perishing?” He responds, showing us that He has been right their with us through it all.

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Tuesday Jun 18, 2024

448. Fr. Ryan Homily - Judgement and Mercy

Tuesday Jun 18, 2024

The Lord sits in heaven on the judgement seat, but from there He extends an overflow of mercy to us. It is not judgement or mercy, but both, together. We never graduate from the prayer "Lord Have Mercy," but pray it sincerely each day, that the Lord in His kindness, knowing our faults and failings, lavishes His mercy upon us.

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Thursday Jun 13, 2024

445. Fr. Ryan Homily - God Reveals Himself

Thursday Jun 13, 2024

The creation story is foundational to our understanding of who we are as children of God. Fr. Ryan walks us through the creation story line by line so that we might understand what the Father is telling us about who we are to Him.

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