UMD NEWMAN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY

Homily from the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, the first Mass of the 2009-2010 school year at UMD. "God needs you. The Church needs you to be the kind of man or the kind of woman who says to those whose hearts are frightened, 'Don't worry. I'm going to do something.'" Mass Readings from September 6, 2009: Isaiah 35: 4-7 James 2: 1-5 Mark 7: 31-37

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. "I know I should pray because I want to grow, but I don't feel like it. But the question is...is loving only when I feel like loving, is that really love?" Readings from May 10th, 2009 Acts 9:26-31 1 John 3:18-24 John 15:1-8

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. "When someone says, 'I'm going to go to Heaven, I'm a good person,' that's not the price of admission. ...Basically it's this: It's allowing God's free gift of grace to come into your life, make you into a Son or Daughter of God, and then living like that." Readings from May 3rd, 2009: Acts 4:8-12 1 John 3:1-2 John 10:11-18

Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter. "Living as a free person not might involve battle, it will involve battle. But when you fight, not only will you fight as a free person, you will fight with God on your side. If you're courageous enough to do it." Readings from April 26, 2009: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 1 John 2: 1-5 Luke 24:35-48

Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday. "The faith that conquers the world is that God can still use you in your weakness." Readings from April 19, 2009: Acts 4: 32-35 1 John 5:1-6 John 20: 19-31

Homily from the Easter Vigil Mass. "The Resurrection proves that God is real. And here's the good news tonight, my brothers and sisters: What that means is that the Resurrection proves that your life is not meaningless. The Resurrection proves that you are not alone."

Homily from Palm Sunday. "Honestly saints, prophets, everyone in the Old Testament, they longed to see this day. They longed to be a part of this one sacrifice that is left, this todah, this thanksgiving, this Eucharist, because they knew one thing: if they got to be part of this oath and this sacrifice and this meal, they would be brought into the deepest covenant anyone could ever imagine. The day has come." Readings from April 5, 2009: Isaiah 50: 4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark 14: 1-15:1-39

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. "What is it that you need to be set free from? To be able to offer it to the Lord and say, "This is my sacrifice." Because God does not want to say, 'Give up what you love,' as much as He wants to say, 'Give up what's keeping you from loving the way you're meant to love.'" Readings for March 29, 2009 Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. "If I don't ever wrestle with doubt, if i don't ever wrestle with, "God can I really trust you?" If I don't ever wrestle with, "It's really hard, God, to do the right thing right now," then maybe I'm not following God: maybe I'm just following my image of God. And instead of me being made in the image and likeness of God, I've made God in the image and likeness of me." Readings for March 8, 2009 Genesis 22:1-2,9-13,15-18 Romans 8:31-34 Mark 9:2-10

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent. "You have a mission. Even if your mission seems small in your eyes, it is not small because it is your mission given to you by God. And if you embrace that mission, and refuse to embrace the shadow mission, then brothers and sisters you will be one of the "Mighty Men" or the mighty women not of David...but of Jesus Christ." Readings for March 1, 2009 Genesis 9:8-15 1 Peter 3:18:22 Mark 1: 12-15

Homily from the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time. "What can't you do?! The Holy Spirit dwells inside of you. Every one of you gathered here, you receive the Body and Blood of God Himself every week, if not every day! The whole Trinity dwells inside of you. You have the assurance of a Church that was founded by Jesus and He promised He would not abandon It until the end of time. What can't you do?!" Readings for February 22, 2009: Isaiah 43: 18-19, 21-22, 24-25 2 Corinthians 1: 18-22 Mark 2: 1-12

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time. "If Jesus isn't good news for everybody, then He isn't good news for anybody. If Jesus can't save, can't heal, can't offer hope and healing to everybody, then He cannot offer hope and healing to anybody." Readings for February 15, 2009: Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1 Mark 1: 40-45

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Do you invent reality or do we discover reality? Do we give our life meaning or do we discover meaning in our life? Because here's the thing...if I invent my own meaning in life, what happens when the bottom drops out? What happens when that one thing that makes me happy is gone and I will never get it back? What happens then? What will be enough?" Readings from February 8th, 2009: Job 7:1-4,6-7 1 Corinthians 9:16-19,22-23 Mark 1:29-39

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Let's be real. As A Christian you never, ever, ever need to be discouraged. Not because it's not that bad, but because when we come to Mass, we meet the One who has exousia [Greek word for "authority"]. When we come to Mass, we meet the One who can speak one Word over us and knit us back together with one Word." Readings from February 1, 2009: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 Mark 1:21-28

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. "...If we're going to be disciples who really actually follow after Jesus, we're going to need to make a decision: we need to make a decision to stop being a fan and start being a follower, to stop being an admirer and start being a disciple." Readings from January 25, 2008: Jonah 3: 1-5, 10 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20