Saint George Parish - St. George Catholic Church Homilies

Today is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. When the Temple in Jerusalem was rebuilt after the Babylonian exile, the glory cloud, the presence of the Lord never returned. So the Temple was without its Lord for 100s of years...until Jesus was pres

Our lives are filled with darkness, and the Lord once to dispel that darkness and to smash its causes. Jesus is the light that both dispels and smashes. He does this by calling us to repent, to put discipleship of him 1st in our lives, and to let him teac

Christ's peace is not a recipe for a stress free life. It's a supernatural gift for dealing with stress with charity and without fear. It's what kept the holy family going on their flight to Egypt. And it can carry us to the joy of heaven.

When Jesus humbled himself to accept the sinner's baptism from John the Baptist, it is perhaps one of his greatest acts of solidarity with us in the darkness and sinfulness of our human condition. It is Jesus saying to us, there is nowhere you can go wher

The star didn't just happen 2,000 years ago. Here are ways to receive the star God sends you today.

Mary as Mother of God points also to the fatherhood of God. And St. Paul teaches that the same Spirit in Jesus was sent into our hearts, crying out ABBA, Father! We do well to pray as Jesus himself prayed, by calling God ABBA, and my calling Mary, our Mot

God became a member of the human family so that we could become members of God's family. Hear how St. Joseph was the shadow of the heavenly Father for the growing into adulthood of the child Jesus...and how he can help us grow into Christian maturity, too

From the beginning of His life, we are to see in this Son the Bread of life, and the Death that saves. A thrill of hope...and the weary world rejoices!

The virginity of Mary and the chastity of Joseph opened the way for the Incarnation by the Holy Spirit. Joseph's fatherhood was the shadow of the heavenly Father, hiding the divinity of Jesus from the world until the time for its revelation.

In this 3rd homily on the importance of the sacrament of confession we're reminded that the church has 5 different names for this beautiful sacrament. And were reminded that going to the sacrament increases faith and love in the world and in our lives.

The first act of the risen Christ was an act of forgiveness. The first command of the risen Christ was that the Church forgive in turn. We see how central to the heart of Jesus is confession and forgiveness. It's why He died on the cross. And it was the f

The Sacrament of Confession is one of the single most important ways to deepen your relationship with God and to grow in holiness. It can change your life for the better.

The 4 last things are death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Are these things to be feared? Why does the church call us to keep them before us?

We work hard to prosper materially. But God's blessings are found when we make an effort to prosper spiritually. Pick a virtue and prosper in it!

Four questions and four actions to make your faith more alive. God is not God of the dead, but for those who are alive!

What are we going to church for? What are we seeking? Jesus says that we go because we need to be made just. The psalmist says that we go because we have a broken heart. And Saint Paul says that we go because we need to pour ourselves out as an offering t

Many times, it seems we have been sacramentalized, but not evangelized. We've received the Sacraments, but don't experience the Lord of those Sacraments. We need a properly evangelized laity, who have experienced the joy of the Gospel!

What is your identity as a Christian? We are beloved as baptized sons and daughters. And we are given gifts of the Spirit to work miracles. But we are also servants to work miracles only at the Lord's willing.

Jesus laments that His children of light do not work as eagerly for heaven as the children of this world work eagerly for worldly gain. Would Christ on the cross look at your life and see a child of this world, or a child of the light?