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13:37

What's the Beam in your Eye?

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/03/02

Today Jesus gives us the very humorous image of a man in need of assistance with a sliver with his eye, and the person who wants to help him has a beam in his own eye! For those of us who are inclined to help others with their issues, Jesus commands, "Remove the beam from your own eye first." What is the beam in my eye? That would make a great focal point for us for our efforts this Lent! In order for us to lead others in faith, which Jesus is asking of us, we first must be healed of our own

11:40

How Can We Love our Enemies?

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/02/23

In our very challenging Gospel today, Jesus commands us to love our enemies. We could include within this category anyone whom we really struggle to love. St. Thomas Aquinas gives us a definition of love that is very important for us to understand Jesus's command, saying, love is "willing the good of the other as other." We may have strongly negative feelings towards someone, but, since love is not a feeling but rather a choice for the good of the other, we can still love despite negative feelings

11:11

Happy are the Poor?!?

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/02/16

In Luke's Beatitudes, basically everything that I try to avoid -- like poverty, sadness, hunger, and being disliked -- Jesus says is good for me. How easy is it for us to be attached more to earthly things than to God! It is my poverty, experienced in different ways, that helps me to live and embrace my identity as beloved son of the Father, on whom I am completely dependent. What a blessing it is to be poor and needing everything from God!

10:14

Want Your Life to be Fruitful? Say 'Yes' to Jesus

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/02/11

In today's gospel Peter allows Jesus to get in his boat, and, even though he had just spent a fruitless night fishing, goes back to deep water and lowers his nets, all at the command of Jesus. The fish slam into the net. If we want our life to be fruitful, then we must say 'yes' to Jesus and do whatever he tells us to do!

12:22

Shining the Light of Christ in our Current Political...

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/02/03

Today for the feast of the Presentation of the Lord (traditionally known as "Candlemas"), the liturgy has us process into the church each holding a lit candle. The symbolism here is that Christ has now passed his light on to us, and we are to burn brightly in the world, attracting many living in darkness to Christ, the true Light. Christians throughout the centuries have done this, often effecting great changes for the good in civil society, and sometimes, even changing the world. May our light

13:26

What is your Charism?

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/01/27

In today's second reading from St. Paul's 1st Letter to the Corinthians, the author uses the make-up of the human body to help us understand the Church. As the human body is composed of various parts, all with different yet essential functions for the health of the whole, so the body of the Church is also composed of members with different yet essential functions, which Paul calls "charisms." Have you ever thought about how God has gifted you with unique gifts to assist in the building up of the

13:33

Baptism of the Lord: Christ's Radical Solidarity with...

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/01/14

It's very strange to imagine this strange event that inaugurates the public ministry of Christ: The holy and sinless Lord standing in line with sinners to be baptized. It makes sense that sinners like you and me would present themselves to John to confess their sins and be baptized, drowning the sins of their old life in the waters and emerging, resolved to live a new life. Why does Christ present himself to be baptized? Not to receive forgiveness for his own sins but for ours. Not so that he can

11:36

Epiphany: Those Who Seek the Lord Find Joy

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/01/06

St. Matthew includes an interesting detail in the account of the visit of the Magi: When the wise men announce the star signaling the birth of the King of the Jews, King Herod was troubled and "all Jerusalem with him." What is clear is that those who are closed to the coming of the Christ have troubled hearts. And those, who, like the Magi, seek and find the Christ, have joy. Let's be like the Magi!

09:17

Marveling at Motherhood

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2025/01/02

Today we celebrate the Motherhood of Mary and reflect on the great gift that it is for us to ourselves be children of Mary and also to bear Christ into the world. Happy New Year!

12:15

A Jubilee Year: A New Start with God

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/12/29

This week Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica, and today our own bishop inaugurates the Jubilee Year in our own diocese. God offers us extraordinary graces during this holy year -- make we welcome this invitation to make a new start with God and others, especially our family.

14:15

Christmas 2024: For Us Poor People God Makes Himself...

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/12/25

Every year I am struck by the poverty of the Nativity Scene: The Almighty God taking on the frailty of our human condition, being born in poverty to poor, insignificant parents. How can we not take this lesson from the manger scene: That God sees as the most important the ones who are least important to the world ... that he loves his poor little ones like you and me ... may we welcome him anew in our hearts this Christmastime!

13:40

Filled with God, Emptied of Self, Wide Open to Others

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/12/22

In today's Gospel we see Mary going immediately from the astonishing message of the angel announcing her virginal motherhood to her traveling to care for her elderly & pregnant cousin Elizabeth. How was it possible for her to be so unselfish at such a dramatic time for her personally? It's because she was filled with God and thus emptied of self. As a result, her heart was wide open to receive others.

15:05

Joy is not a Feeling

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/12/16

On this "Gaudete Sunday" -- named for the first word of the Entrance Antiphon, which is "Gaudete", "Rejoice!" and symbolized by its rose liturgical color -- our second reading today echoes this them of joy. Paul says, "Rejoice in the Lord always!" This is a command for the Christian, and because we cannot "command" the way that we feel, he is communicating to us that joy is not a feeling but an act of the will, a result of our trust and confidence that God is good and that we are loved -- in good

15:48

There Must Be Reconciliation Before Communion

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/12/08

Today we are introduced to the great Advent figure, St. John the Baptist, whose vocation was to prepare the way of the Lord as Isaiah had prophesied: "Every valley shall be filled and hill made low." To prepare the people to receive Jesus into their hearts, what did he do? He had the people come to confess their sins and receive a baptism of repentance. If we want Jesus to find our home in our hearts, we too have to acknowledge, repent, and be forgiven for our sins -- this reconciliation always

11:39

We Will Live Long Enough to Die

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/12/04

The readings on the 1st Sunday of Advent are always taken from the apocalyptic sections of the Scriptures, having to do with the Second Coming of Christ and the Final Judgment. Maybe we will live long enough to see these fearsome events that Jesus describes, which will precede his second coming in glory: the sun, moon, and stars failing and nations in great turmoil. But, in any case, we will live long enough to die, and the Lord, in his merciful love, will be trying to shake us out of our

12:10

The King Comes to Restore What was Lost

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/11/25

Today the Church celebrates the feast of the King who comes as the New Adam, to restore what was lost in the garden. He will not be like the first Adam, who allowed evil in the garden and allowed his bride to dialog with that malicious presence. Instead, he will be true steward and protector of the garden, as God intended the first Adam to be, and he will restore in us through grace what has been lost to us through sin.

08:13

Christ Must Be Our Foundation (a.k.a. We Will Lose...

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/11/21

As we reach the end of the liturgical year, our Scripture readings are taken from the apocalyptic sections of the Bible. The sections dealing with the "Apocalypse" have to do with the "unveiling" of reality to show the truth behind the surface. It would be a mistake for us to think that these passages are describing something in the future and thus irrelevant for us. In today's Gospel, after predicting the failure and collapse of the sun and moon and stars, Jesus says, "This generation will not

12:42

When We Have Nothing to Give ...

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/11/14

Today's Scriptures are about two women -- both poor widows -- widows being one of the most vulnerable groups in Israel -- who have nothing to give. Both women end up giving even the nothing they have, and both women are praised for their trust in God, who will give us everything when we're willing to give even the nothing that we have.

13:29

If We Don't Understand Priesthood, We Don't...

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/11/03

Why do we have priests? As we continue our reading through the Letter to the Hebrews in our Sunday readings, it is clear that the theme of the Priesthood of Christ is so important to the author. Christ's Priesthood, which was perfect, fulfilled and brought to completion the Old Testament priesthood. The Last Supper, then, was the institution of the New Testament priesthood, which is a sharing in the priesthood of Christ.

12:00

Why Do We Venerate the Saints?

Father Matthew Wiering Podcast ·

2024/11/03

The veneration of the saints has been a constant tradition in the Christian Church. In this homily we explore the reasons given to us by the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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