Some Friday stuff, you know the drill

My homily for Monday in the Third Week of Advent:

Thoughts for Gaudete Sunday: Hope brings joy. Joy, in turn, is overcoming adversity.

My homily for today's great celebration: ¿No estoy yo aqui, que soy tu madre?

My homily for today: Hope steps in when you realize you don’t have a clue, you’ve no idea what’s going to happen, and you’re not likely to figure it out, at least not your own.

My homily from last night, posting it a bit late:

Some thoughts as we enter Advent, the start of a new year of grace:

I love Thanksgiving. It's becoming my favorite holiday. It's easy to grouse about the origins of this national holiday. In reality, isn't it nice to set aside a day to give thanks?

Something short for today's Solemnity: So, the question is not whether or not you're a "thief." I am and you are. The first question is, do you know you're a thief? Then the question becomes, are you a good thief or a bad one? scottdodge.blogspot.com/2025/11/happ...

The more we are in the era of dopamine,” Rosalía says, “the more I want the opposite. . . . There has to be something that pulls us..."

Homily for today's Memorial:

Homily for today: With the elapse of many centuries, even a couple of millennia, the eschatological or “apocalyptic” dimension of Christianity grows more attenuated.

Something I didn't want to go to waste. Makes a great Friday traditio:

A few thoughts:

Instead of a new post, I am reposting this on the Pope's cathedral as Bishop Rome from 15 years ago: "The Church you have in front of you now, in which you believe, is the Church that has inherited two thousand years of history" Luigi Giussani

On a Friday of movie watching:

Monday homily: It is tempting to say that Saint Martin de Porres was ahead of his time. What is really the case is simply that he took the Gospel of Jesus Christ into heart and endeavored to live it.

Today's homily: In his Bull of Indiction for this year’s Jubilee... Pope Francis noted “The Jubilee indulgence, thanks to the power of prayer, is intended in a particular way for those who have gone before us, so that they may obtain full mercy.” (

Some thoughts as we start the Church's annual three-day festival: "With this marvelous beginning, during the entire month of November, the Church urges us to remember those who have died and to pray and (gasp!) seek indulgences on their behalf."

My homily for tonight: The spiritual life is an embodied life. Otherwise, the Incarnation was in vain.

Some perhaps unimaginative thoughts on today's Gospel:

It's Friday all over again:

A homily for a Monday: In 'The Grapes of Wrath,' John Steinbeck puts these words of the lips of his character Ma Joad: “If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones" (chapter 26).

Isn't the Lord's death and resurrection the pattern of Christian life?

Thoughts on the Sunday readings: "Expect a journey, not a miracle that dodges your responsibilities..." Servant of God Luigi Giussani

Some Friday reflections on joy and sorrow:

A homily the Monday of the Twenty-eighth week in Ordinary Time: If the sign of Jonah the Lord referred to in our Gospel this evening is His resurrection from the dead after three days in the tomb, then the Lord extends this sign to us through the Eucharist.

An excerpt from my homily for today: Spiritually speaking, a Christian is a healed leper.

A cloudy, rainy, somber day. But a joyful one nonetheless:

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

While the gift of faith is just that, a gift, it must not only be given but received.

So, 2025, among other things (it has been challenging in numerous ways) has been a year of discernment

Jesus' intensive on being His disciple continues apace:

It's Friday.

Some thoughts on our Sunday readings, at the center of which is a kind of tricky parable:

In the words of the Eurythmics song "Sweet Dreams," "everybody is looking for something."

Praying the Seven Sorrows Chaplet allows us to meditate on these sorrows and grow in our feelings of empathy for our Blessed Mother's sufferings.

My homily for today: As Christians, we face the harshness of reality by accepting the challenge of living the Gospel in its fullness. scottdodge.blogspot.com/2025/09/feas...

As someone devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, I would be remiss not to observe today's optional Memorial of the Holy Name of Mary in a public way, especially since I am unable to attend Mass.

Some thoughts on recent events in which I don't pretend to completely answer the question I pose in the title: Like wealth, politics cannot save you but it can surely damn you.

Conceived in the normal way but without the "stain" of original sin aided this young Nazarene woman to see things more clearly than those of us tainted by the fallen human condition.

Some thoughts on our readings for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time- Year C of the Sunday lectionary Jesus' summons to carry your cross is quite literally what it means to follow Him.

t's Friday. While I have nothing profound, I hope I have something worthwhile to share. scottdodge.blogspot.com/2025/09/busy...

Some reluctant thoughts on today's readings in light of last week's events:

Eastern Christians still venerate the Baptist very highly. Among Latin Catholics, his veneration has faded more than a bit.

My homily for today. The Lord doesn’t say whether many or few will ultimately be saved. What He seeks is to bring his questioner and those listening (including you and me) back to their “I,” to a consideration of your own life.

On this Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, let us heed the Holy Father by fasting and praying for peace!

Homily for a Monday. Discipleship pays off in the long run, but idolatry pays off now.

A few thoughts on the readings for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C of the Sunday cycle:

Hard to believe. Tempest fugit: