UMD NEWMAN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Do you ever feel like you just live in a place of discouragement? In fact, you have made it your home? That's not what it's meant to be. Discouragement is never meant to be the place we live. It is the place we go through." Mass Readings from August 12, 2012: 1 Kings 19:4-8 Ephesians 4:30-5:2 John 6:41-51

Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Think about how debilitating it is to walk through life that way: needing the training wheels every step along the way, needing to have some kind of insurance every day that things will be okay, versus the joy and the freedom of being able to race through life without training wheels, without insurance, but a life based upon the joy of knowing that you have the assurance of a God who sends you out into life and says, 'Go out. I will be there every step of the way.'" Mass Readings from July 15, 2012: Amos 7:12-15 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:7-13

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Ultimately, what faith is going to be is this: a living, abiding relationship with a God that you know you can trust." Mass Readings from July 08, 2012: Ezekiel 2:2-5 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Mark 6:1-6

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "There's something great about belonging to a Republic of virtue. It means this, it means your citizenry, they will work hard. They will be honest. They will persevere. They will be generous. But it also means that when you push them, they will push back. It means that your citizenry will not be a citizenry of subjects, but a citizenry of power and of strength. We may be called to choose Christ before our nation, Jesus before our country." Mass Readings from July 01, 2012: Wisdom 1:13-15;2:23-24 2 Corinthians 8:7,9,13-15 Mark 5:21-43

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. "I'm not free to love until I'm free from self-love." Mass Readings from May 06, 2012: Acts 9:26-31 1 John 3:18-24 John 15:1-8

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. "You have all of the grace that you need to be a saint right now. Why not make a basket? Why not just say 'Yes' to this? Why not just let go of the ball and say, "I'm not going to be saved through my name, I'll be saved through His name'? Why not now?" Mass Readings from April 29, 2012: Acts 4: 8-12 1 John 3:1-2 John 10:11-18

Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter. "The reason we are celebrating is what we heard in the Gospel today: This Guy, who was dead, walks into this room, and He's not limping in, He is resurrected, He is transformed, and He says, 'Look at my hands. Look at my feet. The nail marks? I died, I conquered death for you.' ...The fact that Christ conquered death and no matter what kind of test or paper or terrible roommate you might have, no matter what kind of real suffering and real pain you might have in your life right now, Christ has conquered your sin, He has conquered your sorrow, He has conquered what could conquer you." Mass Readings from April 22, 2012: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 1 John 2:1-5 Luke 24:35-48

Homily from the Second Sunday of Easter. "'The Church is my Bride: If you take me, you take Her.'" ~Jesus Mass Readings from April 15, 2012: Acts 4:32-35 1 John 5:1-6 John 20:19-31

Homily from the Mass of Easter Sunday. "If the Resurrection isn't real, then your obstacles mean nothing. If the Resurrection isn't real, then your suffering means nothing. If the Resurrection isn't an actual historical reality, then your heartbreak means nothing because your life means nothing. And every joy, and every love, and every promise you've ever made, if the Resurrection is not real, they all amount to zero." Mass Readings from April 8, 2012: Acts 10:34, 37-43 Colossians 3:1-4 John 20:1-9

Homily from Good Friday. "The difference is not the kind of cross it is, the difference is the kind of heart that carries the cross." Mass Readings from April 6, 2012: Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Hebrews 4:14-16;5:7-9 John 18:1-19:42

Homily from Palm Sunday. "Here is a God who knows our hearts. He doesn't need anyone to teach Him about us. ...He knows how weak I am. But He knows how strong He is. He knows that on my bad days and on my average days, I will choose sin. But He also knows that He is greater than my sin. He knows that at the beginning of the meal I can say, 'Jesus, if I have to die with you I will.' Shortly after that I will say, 'I don't know Him. I've never even met Him. I don't even know what you're talking about. I've never heard of Jesus.' He knows that about you already. And yet, He trusts you. And He trusts me. What a crazy, insane God. Our hearts are broken. But He is greater than our heart." Mass Readings from April 1, 2012: Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark 15:1-47

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. "I think when Jesus says in today's Gospel, 'Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a single grain of wheat. But if it dies, it can produce much fruit,' He knows what He is talking about. Because here He is, stripping Himself. Here He is, becoming that seed that falls to the ground and dies. And I think the same thing happens to us. When it comes to whatever it is in our life that just enslaves us, whether it's that desire to be famous, that desire to be known, the desire to be significant, unless that dies, I just die as me and my glory does not follow me below. So Jesus says, 'Here is the secret: humble yourselves. Strip off glory.' " Mass Readings from March 25, 2012: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. "God is not ashamed of your shame. He is not ashamed of what we're ashamed of. He is not afraid of what scares us. He is not afraid of our sins. God is not shocked by the fact that we are weak. ...So do not, do not, please, my brothers and sisters, do not allow your shame or your sin or your weakness to keep you in shadow." Mass Readings from March 18, 2012: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. "In Paul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 8, the whole chapter is about being a son of God. Because of Jesus it says, 'Those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, 'Papa! Abba! Father!' So what does that mean? Isaac said, 'Abraham, Father, your will is my will. Let it be done unto me.' Jesus said to the Father, 'Abba, Father, Your will is my will, Your mind is my mind, Your mission is my mission.' And you, us, as sons and daughters of the Father, what do we say? 'Father, Your will is my will. Just like Abraham, I can trust you. Just like Isaac, I can trust you. Just like Jesus, I can trust you.'" Mass Readings from March 4, 2012: Genesis 22:9-13, 15-18 Romans 8:31-34 Mark 9:2-10

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent. "I invite you, my brothers and sisters, to enter into this Lent with a spirit of meekness but a spirit of courage, with a spirit of humility but a spirit of boldness, with a spirit not of fear, as St. Peter says, to not be afraid or terrified with fear, but a spirit of hope." Mass Readings from February 26, 2012: Genesis 9:8-15 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:12-15