Homilies for Cycle A

(Fr. Phil Bloom, Pastor Holy Family, Seattle)

First Sunday of Advent: Not in Promiscuity and Lust

Immaculate Conception: Under Her Motherly Care

Second Advent: That We Might Have Hope

Our Lady Of Guadalupe "Am I Not Your Mother?"

Third Advent: Do Not Complain

Fourth Advent: Merry Christmas, Mary

Christmas: No More Fear and Hiding

Holy Family Sunday: Honor Your Father and Mother

Mary, Mother of God (New Year's Day): A Fresh Start

Epiphany of the Lord Where the Sun Is

Baptism of the Lord: Road to Sanity

Second Ordinary: Why Does Human Life Have Value?

Third Ordinary: When John Had Been Arrested

Presentation of the Lord: The Fortieth Day of Christmas

Fourth Ordinary: Maybe Yes, Maybe No

Fifth Ordinary: Less Noise, More Light

Sixth Ordinary: Not Abolish, but Complete

Ash Wednesday: When You Give Alms

First Sunday of Lent: The Devil is a Logician

Second Lent: A Confrontation with Evil

Third Lent: Why So Dissatisfied?

Fourth Lent: Small Gesture with Enormous Promise

Fifth Lent: Overcoming Power of Death

Passion (Palm) Sunday: Your Will Be Done

Holy Thursday: Grandma, Can I Wash Your Feet?

Good Friday: According to Your Word

Easter Vigil: Born Again

Easter Sunday: His Will Is Our Peace

Second Sunday Easter: Reconciliation

Third Easter: The Incorruptibles

Fourth Easter: Door We Never Opened

Fifth Easter: A Virgin Path

Sixth Easter: Not Leave You Orphans

Ascension of the Lord: Ascension Quotes

Pentecost: Double Gift

Trinity Sunday: Family as Origin and Goal

Corpus Christi Sunday: Who May Receive Communion?

Tenth Ordinary Sunday: The Desire for Revenge

Eleventh Ordinary Sunday: Labor Shortage

Father's Day Homily

Twelfth Ordinary: A Bishop's Hidden Life

Birth of John the Baptist: God is Gracious

Thirteenth Ordinary: Welcome Same-Sex Partners?

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul: What Peter Meant to Paul

Fourteenth Ordinary: The Real Revolution

Fifteenth Ordinary: The Word Embodied in the Church

Sixteenth Ordinary: Distinguishing Wheat from Weeds

Seventeenth Ordinary: The Pearl of Great Price

Eighteenth Ordinary: Why is the United States Rich?

Nineteenth Ordinary: Lord, Save Me, I Am Drowning

Twentieth Ordinary: Culture Shock

Feast of Assumption: Patroness of the Unborn

Twenty-First Ordinary: The Two Keys

Twenty-Second Ordinary: Get behind me, Satan!

Twenty-Third Ordinary: Love and Do What You Like

Twenty-Fourth Ordinary: He Remembers Their Sins in Detail

Exaltation of the Holy Cross: The Power of the Cross

Twenty-Fifth Ordinary: Day Laborers

Twenty-Sixth Ordinary: Unspeakable Love

Twenty-Seventh Sunday: Have No Anxiety At All

Twenty-Eighth Sunday: Taste for God

Twenty-Ninth Sunday: God Owns It All

Thirtieth Sunday: A Harsh and Dreadful Thing

Thirty-First Sunday: Have We Not One Father?

All Saints: Loneliness and Lasting Communion

All Souls: Sister Death

Thirty-Second Sunday: Why They Did Not Share

Dedication of Lateran Basilica: I Saw Water

Thirty-Third Sunday: Time, Energy and Money

Christ the King Sunday: The Last Enemy

Thanksgiving Homily: The Radical Virtue

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