UMD NEWMAN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. "If you're willing to admit, "I've got a problem, so I've got a plan," and you take that next step in handing that wound, that blindness, that weakness, that sin over to Jesus, that's the next good step that puts you right back...right back...where He wants you to be." Mass Readings from April 03, 2011 1 Samuel 16:1, 6-7, 10-13 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41

Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent. "Do you realize that God has already made up His mind? He has definitively chosen to love you. The question is not, "Does the Church want you?" The question is not, "Does God want you?" The question is this: do you want God? He offers you this living water. Do you want Him? He has already done everything to be your Savior. The question is this: will you let Him be your Savior?" Mass Readings from March 27, 2011: Exodus 17:3-7 Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 John 4:5-42

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. "We, like Peter, we, like Abraham, we can know the truth that Jesus is God, that God has a mission for our life. But here is the question: when we come up against the obstacles, then what do we do? It's not a matter of being perfect. ...Even though we sometimes fail to live the truth that we know, that does NOT disqualify us from God's call." Mass Readings from March 20, 2011: Genesis 12:1-4 2 Timothy 1:8-10 Matthew 17:1-9

Homily from Ash Wednesday. "We have a goal. And the goal ahead of us is to be saints. For the Christian, for the human being, anything less than becoming a saint is failure. What kind of a person do you want to be at the end of these 40 days that you're not quite yet?" Mass Readings from March 09, 2011: Joel 2:12-18 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18

Homily from the Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "As Moses is coming down the mountain, he is carrying both tablets. What does that mean? He and God have exchanged tablets, but he carries both because it wasn't just Moses who came down the mountain. Moses came down the mountain holding both tablets, that meant God came down the mountain with Moses. As long as they had those tablets, as long as they had those words in their possession, what it was was God saying, "I'm going to be there with you." That was God's promise, "I will be faithful, I will be true to you." Mass Readings from March 06, 2011: Deuteronomy 11:18, 26-28, 32 Romans 3:21-25, 28 Matthew 7:21-27

Homily from the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "You don't need to worry about tomorrow. Why? Because you have a Papa. You don't need to worry about what are we going to wear, what are we going to eat? You don't have to worry about those things. Why? Because you have a Papa in Heaven, and He tells you two things: He tells you your identity, He tells you who you are, and the second thing is, He tells you that you can trust Him. " Mass Readings from February 27, 2011: Isaiah 49:14-15 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 Matthew 6:24-34

Homily from the Seventh Sunday In Ordinary Time. "This is what Jesus is saying. You are going to have people who are going to be mean to you and not loving you back, they are going to force you to carry their burdens for a mile. You can do that wisely. But you are going to need some strength to carry that the extra mile. ...Are you strong enough to bear that burden for as long as it takes? Are you the kind of a son or kind of daughter who can bear that burden for your mom or dad as long as it takes? Will you be the kind of husband or kind of wife who will bear that burden for your spouse as long as it takes? Will you be that kind of friend who will love someone who does not love you back as long as it takes to win them back for Jesus?" Mass Readings from February 20, 2011: Leviticus 19:1-2, 7-18 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Matthew 5:38-48

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time. "But here he (King David) is, chosen. Why? Because he is a man after God's own Heart. Not perfect, but he loves what God loves. So the question is this: what do I love? The question is this: how is my heart? If God looks at the heart, then what does my heart look like? What am I hungry for, what do I long for? Do I love the things that God loves or are there things that I love that are in my life that God would say, "I don't love that"? Mass Readings from February 13, 2011: Sirach 15:15-20 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 Matthew 5:17-37

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Here is the reality: if we are going to be modern day Pauls, if we are going to be modern day 'salt' and 'light', what we need to do is be like Paul. Paul came into Corinth and he realized, 'When it comes to preaching to Jews, I need to bring them philosophy. When it comes to preaching to Greeks, I need to bring them faith.' What we need to do as Catholic Christians is bring both: faith and reason." Mass Readings from February 06, 2011: Isaiah 58:7-10 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Matthew 5:13-16

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Why did Jesus come to this Earth? People would say, 'Well, Jesus came to save us.' Check. Amen. Yes! How did He save us? He died on the Cross and rose from the dead. But remember what happens right after He gets born? There's the massacre of the innocents, Herod was trying to kill all the babies. Why not just let Him get killed and rise from the dead then? He could have just done it right there. Clearly because Jesus is more than just the Guy that is supposed to die and rise. He is here to do something, that's why He is called Christ. He is the new Anointed One, He is the new David. Here is the deal: He is not just here to save us. He is here to establish a Kingdom." Mass Readings from January 30, 2011: Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Matthew 5:1-12

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. "When the light of Christ shines in our life, He doesn't just shine on us to shame us. He doesn't just show us what we've done wrong and leave us there. What Jesus wants to do is He wants to redeem us, He wants to restore us, He wants to forgive us. If any of us have experienced great sin or experienced great shame: don't stay there. Recognize that Jesus has redemption. Recognize that He has forgiveness. Recognize that it's not the end of the story. You don't have to stay in death, He can actually bring forth life." Mass Readings from January 23, 2011: Isaiah 8:23-9:1 1 Corinthians 1:10-13,17 Matthew 4:12-23

Homily from the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, given at the FOCUS Conference in St. Paul, MN. "What did the Lord say to the prophet Isaiah? 'You have been anointed to be a light to the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to set prisoners free,' and later on in the same book, 'to proclaim a year of favor from the Lord.' That's your job. That's your mission. That's your priesthood. That's your prophesy. How's it coming along? You have to go out. You don't have to come back." Mass Readings from January 09, 2011: Isaiah 42: 1-4, 6-7 Acts 10:34-38 Matthew 3:13-17

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. "When we mostly eat normal food, we change it into us. But when we eat the Eucharist, it is Jesus changing us into Him. And then the Church says, 'Now go! Filled with the Bread from Heaven, filled with the Eucharist, filled with this God inside of you, and go and change that world.'" Mass Readings from Sunday, December 19, 2010: Isaiah 7:10-14 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-24

Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. "It's not just about words. At every Mass, it's Jesus pouring Himself out to the Father. What's the priest doing? He is standing at the altar, pouring himself out through Jesus to the Father. And if you guys are kingdom priests, and the priest is standing at the altar, Jesus is pouring Himself out not just in words but in actions, and the priest is pouring himself out not just in words, but in actions, here you are in silence joining your hearts to the heart of the priest, the heart of Jesus, and you're pouring yourself out, not just in words, but in actions. Oh my gosh, can you believe this? This is insane! This is incredible! This is being conformed to Christ. Why? Because Jesus is pouring Himself out. The priest is pouring Himself out. And you are pouring yourself out." Mass Readings from December 12, 2010: Isaiah 35: 1-6,10 James 5: 7-10 Matthew 11:2-11

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. "Here is the reality we have to be face to face with: Brothers and sisters, if we leave the Eucharist, we leave Jesus. If we say, 'That saying is hard, no way that that bread is actually Jesus and that that wine is actually His Blood. No way.' If we leave the Eucharist, we leave Jesus." Mass Readings from December 05, 2010: Isaiah 11:1-10 Romans 15:4-9 Matthew 3:1-12 For those of you not in the Duluth area or if you are looking for local Mass times at area parishes, visit http://www.churchmasstimes.com!