What is Stealing Your Joy - December 15, 2024

Stuff comes in life and stuff happens! It is hard to, in a sense, frolic and enjoy life. Joy is not about circumstances. Joy is not about what happens to us. Joy is about what we choose when stuff is happening to us. Joy is a response that we have regardless of what is happening to us. (Read more…)

Here is my homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. Please feel free to pass it on.

God bless,

Fr. Brendan

Health of the Spiritual Heart - December 8, 2024

Our parish theme for the whole year is “Be still and know that I am God.” But during the advent period it is to be still and be joyful with the Lord. In the current secular climate today, we have the craziness and the busyness of Christmas. We cannot stop all the shops doing what they need to do and to try to get us ramped up and amped up on all the purchasing. But we can take a rest from it and to be still with the Lord. (Read more…)

Here is my homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. Please feel free to pass it on.

God Waits For Us - December 1, 2024

We are called in a more profound way to not try to change all the circumstances outside. We are not going to change the secular world, we are not going to change the stores. If they have goods to sell and they are going to start selling it. But we can change our attitude. See the difference between heaven and earth is not about altitude. It is about attitude. (Read more…)

Here is my homily from the First Sunday of Advent. Please feel free to pass it on.