Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
June 14, 2011
2Cor 8:1-9, Ps 146:2 5-9, Mt 5:43-48
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saint Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor – Memorial
June 13, 2011
Is 61:1-3d, Ps 89:2-5 21-22 25 27, Lk 10:1-9
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Pentecost Sunday (A) June 12, 2011 Acts 2:1-11, Ps 104:1 24 29-31 34, 1Cor 12:3-7 12-13, Jn 20:19-23 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the bottom of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 10, 2011 The tradition of papal general audiences goes back 140 years to Blessed Pope Pius IX. Up until then, the Popes would regularly grant “private audiences” to individual bishops, priests and...
The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by U.S. Priests, Part II , The Anchor, June 3, 2011
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 3, 2011 Last week we began an analysis of “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010” (see pages 14-15), the 152-page report by a research team...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A May 29, 2011 Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; 1Pet 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 The following text guided this homily: WITNESSES TO HOPE Earlier this month we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Fifth week of Easter
May 28, 2011
Acts 16:1-10, Ps 100:1-3 5, Jn 15:18-21
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 27, 2011 Last week we focused on a Circular Letter by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith giving guidance and a one-year deadline to bishops’ conferences around the world to formulate...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Fifth week of Easter
May 27, 2011
Acts 15:22-31, Ps 57:8-10 12, Jn 15:12-17
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Fifth week of Easter
May 26, 2011
Acts 15:7-21, Ps 96:1-3 10, Jn 15:9-11
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Fifth week of Easter
May 25, 2011
Acts 15:1-6, Ps 122:1-5, Jn 15:1-8
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Fifth week of Easter
May 24, 2011
Acts 14:19-28, Ps 145:10-13 21, Jn 14:27-31
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Fifth week of Easter
May 23, 2011
Acts 14:5-18, Ps 115:1-4 15-16, Jn 14:21-26
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A May 22, 2011 Acts 6:1-7; 1Pet 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 The following text guided this homily: BUILDING ON CHRIST In today’s second reading and Gospel, we hear...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 20, 2011 In March 2010, when Pope Benedict penned a pastoral letter to the Church in Ireland in response to the clergy sexual abuse crisis there, he candidly confessed, “No one imagines that this painful...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A May 15, 2011 Acts 2:14, 36-41; 1Pet2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 The following text guided today’s homily: PRAYING FOR GOD TO SEND SHEPHERDS AFTER HIS...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 13, 2011 The Fourth Sunday of Easter is traditionally called Good Shepherd Sunday because on this day the Church always listens to a passage from St. John’s Gospel in which Jesus identifies himself as the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday of Easter, Year A May 8, 2011 Acts 2:14,22-28; 1Pet 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35 The following text guided this homily: JESUS’ ACCOMPANYING US ON THE WAY Last Sunday, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 6, 2011 “What kind of person pays for a Web site that makes abortion seem cool?,” Boston Herald columnist Michael Graham asked in an April 21 article. “Who would use the Internet to target teen girls with...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Second week of Easter
May 6, 2011
Acts 5:34-42, Ps 27:1 4 13-14, Jn 6:1-15
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Divine Mercy Sunday May 1, 2011 Acts 2:42-47; 1Pet1:3-9; Jn 20:1-9 The following text guided today’s homily: JOHN PAUL II AND DIVINE MERCY “Eternal Father, I offer...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Second Sunday of Easter (A)
May 1, 2011
Acts 2:42-47, Ps 118:2-4 13-15 22-24, 1Peter 1:3-9, Jn 20:19-31
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 29, 2011 On Sunday, the Catholic world will rejoice as Pope Benedict XVI beatifies his predecessor Pope John Paul II. Six years ago, at John Paul II’s funeral Mass, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Easter Sunday April 24, 2011 Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 The following text guided today’s homily: BEING RISEN WITH CHRIST Today we mark, with Christians...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 22, 2011 “Are you the king of the Jews?” Pontius Pilate’s question about Jesus’ identity, and Jesus’ response, bring us to the heart of the ongoing drama of Good Friday and the whole Christian life. The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of Holy Week
April 20, 2011
Is 50:4-9, Ps 69:8-10 21-22 31 33-34, Mt 26:14-25
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of Holy Week
April 19, 2011
Is 49:1-6, Ps 71:1-6 15 17, Jn 13:21-33 36-38
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of Holy Week
April 18, 2011
Is 42:1-7,Ps 27:1-3 13-14, Jn 12:1-11
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 17, 2011 Readings for the entrance procession: Mt 21:1-11, Psalm 24, Psalm 47 Readings for Mass: Is 50:4-7, Ps 22:8-9 17-20 23-24, Phil 2:6...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Fifth week of Lent
April 16, 2011
Ez 37:21-28, Jer 31:10-13, Jn 11:45-56
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 15, 2011 The theme of Lent is encapsulated on Ash Wednesday when the words of Christ with which he began his public ministry echo throughout the world as ashes are imposed: “Turn away from sin and be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Fifth week of Lent
April 15, 2011
Jer 20:10-13, Ps 18:2-7, Jn 10:31-42
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Theresa’s Parish, Sugar Land, TX Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A April 10, 2011 Ezek 37:12-14; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 The following text guided this homily: YES, LORD, I DO BELIEVE “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Anyone who...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 8, 2011 In Paris on March 24 and 25, a remarkable new Church initiative began. Born from the pastoral zeal, Biblical expertise and the university experience of Pope Benedict XVI, it is an attempt to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A April 3, 2011 1Sam16:1,6-7,10-13; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 The following text guided this homily: “YOU HAVE SEEN HIM AND HE IS SPEAKING TO YOU NOW!” In...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 1, 2011 Last November, Bishop Sal Cordileone, the youthful and talented bishop of Oakland, California, was appointed to head the U.S. Bishops efforts to defend marriage. While an auxiliary bishop in San...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Third week of Lent
March 31, 2011
Jer 7:23-28, Ps 95:1-2 6-9, Luke 11:14-23
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Third week of Lent
March 30, 2011
Dt 4:1 5-9, Ps 147:12-13 15-16 19-20, Mt 5:17-19
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Third week of Lent
March 28, 2011
2Kgs 5:1-15, Ps 42:2-3 43:3-4, Lk 4:24-30
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday of Lent March 27, 2011 Ex 17:3-7, Ps 95:1-2 6-9, Rom 5:1-2 5-8, Jn 4:5-42 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the bottom of the page...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 25, 2011 On Sunday night, 60 Minutes featured an interview with Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, It was a hard-hitting, but engaging, fair and largely positive portrayal. While certain aspects of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Lenten Night of Recollection on “Lenten Wisdom from the Four Great Holy Teresas” St. Francis Xavier Parish, Acushnet, MA March 24, 2011 To download a PDF of the talk with proper formatting, please click below: St. Therese...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Second week of Lent
March 22, 2011
Is 1:10 16-20, Ps 50:8-9 16-17 21 23, Mt 23:1-12
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Second week of Lent
March 21, 2011
Dn 9:4-10, Ps 79:8-9 11 13, Lk 6:36-38
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday of Lent, Year A March 20, 2011 Gen 12:1-4; 2Tim 1:8-10; Mt 17:1-9 The following text guided this homily: A Transfigured Community Benedict XVI on the meaning of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Mary
March 19, 2011
2Sm 7:4-5 12-14 16, Ps 89:2-5 27 29, Rom 4:13 16-18 22, Mt 1:16 18-21 24
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 18, 2011 On Sunday, Pope Benedict reminded all Christians that Lent “is a matter of following Jesus who turns decisively toward the Cross, the culmination of this mission of salvation. If we ask: Why...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the First week of Lent
March 18, 2011
Ez 18:21-28, Ps 130:1-8, Mt 5:20-26
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the First week of Lent
March 17, 2011
Est C:12 14-16 23-25, Ps 138:1-3 7-8, Mt 7:7-12
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the First week of Lent
March 16, 2011
Jon 3:1-10, Ps 51:3-4 12-13 18-19, Lk 11:29-32
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the First week of Lent
March 15, 2011
Is 55:10-11, Ps 34:4-7 16-19, Mt 6:7-15
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA First Sunday of Lent, Year A March 13, 2011 Gen 2:7-9, 3:1-7; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11 The following text guided this homily: Responding to Temptations In his beautiful Lenten...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 11, 2011 Nearly six years after Pope Benedict’s election, most of us have become accustomed to how rich, clear and evangelically fresh his writings are. He writes with such a depth, scope and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) March 6, 2011 Dt 11:18 26-28 32, Ps 31:2-4 17 25, Rom 3:21-25 28, Mt 7:21-27 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Eighth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
March 5, 2011
Sir 51:12-20, Ps 19:8-11, Mk 11:27-33
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 4, 2011 When President Barack Obama took his oath of office on the Lincoln Bible, he swore to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States” and to “preserve, protect and defend the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Eighth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
March 4, 2011
Sir 44:1 9-13, Ps 149:1-6 9, Mk 11:11-26
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Eighth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
March 2, 2011
Sir 36:5-6 10-17, Ps 79:8-9 11 13, Mk 10:32-45
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A February 27, 2011 Is 49:14-15; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Mt 6:24-34 The following text guided this homily: STRIVING FIRST FOR THE KINGDOM, TRUSTING IN GOD’S...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 25, 2011 February has been a momentous month in Washington with respect to defending innocent human life from abortion. On the negative side, last Friday President Barack Obama rescinded a 2008...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A February 20, 2011 Lev 19:1-2, 17-18; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48 The following text guided this homily: HUMAN PERFECTION AS THE IMAGE OF...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 18, 2011 On January 9, after baptizing 21 infants in the Sistine Chapel on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Pope Benedict captured international headlines for reminding Catholic parents...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A February 13, 2011 Sir 15:15-20; 1Cor 2:6-10; Mt 5:17-37 JESUS’ HIGHER STANDARDS FOR US We’re now three weeks into our renewed study of Jesus’...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 12, 2011
Gn 3:9-24, Ps 90:2-6 12-13, Mk 8:1-10
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 11, 2011 The celebration of World Marriage Day on Sunday and St. Valentine’s Day on Monday are obvious, fitting occasions to think about the blessings of romantic love and marriage. They’re also...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 11, 2011
Gn 3:1-8, Ps 32:1-2 5-7, Mk 7:31-37
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 9, 2011
Gn 2:5-9 15-17, Ps 104:1-2 27-30, Mk 7:14-23
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 8, 2011
Gn 1:20–2:4, Ps 8:4-9, Mk 7:1-13
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 7, 2011
Gns 1:1-19, Ps 104:1-2 5-6 10 12 24 35, Mk 6:53-56
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) February 6, 2011 Is 58:7-10, Ps 112:4-9, 1Cor 2:1-5, Mt 5:13-16 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the bottom...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Saturday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (A, I) Memorial of Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr February 5, 2011 Heb 13:15-17 20-21, Ps 23:1-6, Mk 6:30-34 : Play in new window |...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 4, 2011 The celebration of Catholic Schools Week in the United States is an annual opportunity to reflect on the privilege and purpose of Catholic education. Education is at the heart of the Church’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 4, 2011
Heb 13:1-8, Ps 27:1 3 5 8-9, Mk 6:14-29
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 3, 2011
Heb 12:18-19 21-24, Ps 48:2-4 9-11, Mk 6:7-13
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
February 2, 2011
Mal 3:1-4, Ps 24:7-10, Heb 2:14-18, Lk 2:22-40
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
February 1, 2011
Heb 12:1-4, Ps 22:26-28 30-32, Mk 5:21-43
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 31, 2011
Heb 11:32-40, Ps 31:20-24, Mk 5:1-20
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A, I) January 30, 2011 Zep 2:3 — 3:12-13, Ps 146:6-10, 1Cor 1:26-31, Mt 5:1-12 This is the text that guided the homily: The Beatitudes...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 29, 2011
Heb 11:1-2 8-19, Lk 1:69-70-75, Mk 4:35-41
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 28, 2011 The 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s shameful Roe v. Wade decision last weekend did not pass unnoticed. On the positive side, hundreds of thousands descended upon Washington to pray...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas
January 28, 2011
Heb 10:32-39, Ps 37:3-6 23-24 39-40, Mk 4:26-34
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 27, 2011
Heb 10:19-25, Ps 24:1-6, Mk 4:21-25
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 26, 2011
Heb 10:11-18, Ps 110:1-4, Mk 4:1-20
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, apostle
January 25, 2011
Acts 22:3-16, Ps 117:1-2, Mk 16:15-18
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 24, 2011
Heb 9:15 24-28, Ps 98:1-6, Mr 3:22-30
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) January 23, 2011 Is 8:23–9:3, Ps 27:1 4 13-14, 1Cor 1:10-13 17, Mt 4:12-23 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 21, 2011 Each year on January 24, the feast of the St. Francis de Sales, the patron saint of journalists and communication, Pope Benedict publishes his routinely compelling annual message for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (A, I) January 16, 2011 Isaiah 49:3 5-6, Ps 40:2 4 7-10, 1Cor 1:1-3, Jn 1:29-34 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the First week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 15, 2011
Heb 4:12-16, Ps 19:8-10 15, Mk 2:13-17
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 14, 2011 Last week, in the editorial “When Catholic Hospitals Lose Their Identity and Way,” we focused on Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted’s stripping St. Joseph’s hospital of its Catholic status, after...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 14, 2011
Heb 4:1-5 11, Ps 78:3-4 6-8, Mk 2:1-12
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the First week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 13, 2011
Heb 3:7-14, Ps 95:6-11, Mk 1:40-45
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the First week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 12, 2011
Heb 2:14-18, Ps 105:1-4 6-9, Mk 1:29-39
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the First week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 11, 2011
Heb 2:5-12, Ps 8:2 5-9, Mk 1:21-28
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the First week in Ordinary Time (A, I)
January 10, 2011
Heb 1:1-6, Ps 97:1-2 6-9, Mk 1:14-20
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Baptism of the Lord, Year A January 9, 2011 Is 42:1-4, 6-7; Acts 10:34-38; Mt 3:13-17 The following text guided today’s homily: REMEMBERING OUR DIGNITY AND LIVING IT Last Sunday, we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 7, 2011 Before Christmas, as the Christian world was preparing to celebrate the birth of the child Jesus, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix had to deal with a Catholic hospital that carried out a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Epiphany of the Lord January 2, 2011 Is 60:1-6; Eph 3:2-3,5-6; Mt 2:1-12 The following text guided today’s homily: THREE REACTIONS TO THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST We celebrate today the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Mary, Mother of God, Year A January 1, 2011 Num 6:22-27; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 The following text guided today’s homily: THE CALL OF A MOTHER Why would the Church have us begin each...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Christmas Midnight Mass 2010 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Christmas 2010 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 24, 2010 There is something beautifully symbolic about the tradition of Midnight Mass. It shows that Christians are so eager for Christmas to begin that they want to start celebrating on the first...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A December 19, 2010 Is 7:10-14; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 The following text guided today’s homily: PREPARING TO GREET THE LORD BY NAME Shift of Advent season...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 17, 2010 The Advent season focuses our attention on the first, second and daily comings of the Lord Jesus as Savior of the world. At Christmas we turn our attention to the Babe wrapped in swaddling...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday of Advent, Year A December 12, 2010 Is 35:1-6,10; James 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11 The following text guided today’s homily: HERALDS OF THE GOOD NEWS, PRECURSORS OF THE LORD...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 10, 2010 Among the many means bishops have to form their people, one of the greatest teaching tools is the pastoral letter, in which the leader of a local church focuses the attention of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Parish Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady December 8, 2010 Gen 3:9-15, 20; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 The following text guided today’s homily: FIAT On this great feast day, we celebrate...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday of Advent, Year A December 5, 2010 Is 11:1-10; Rom 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 The following text guided today’s homily: 1) On the second Sunday of Advent each year, the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 3, 2010 On November 16, at the U.S. Bishops’ Conference’s annual meeting, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago gave his final address as president Conference. In it he looked back over his three-year...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA First Sunday of Advent, Year A November 28, 2010 Is 2:1-5; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 The following text guided today’s homily: We begin today, on this first Sunday of Advent, a new...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 26, 2010 Last weekend, headlines focused on how Pope Benedict was apparently changing the Church’s teachings about the immorality of the use of condoms. The comments, excerpted from a book length...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Christ the King, Year C November 21, 2010 2 Sam 5:1-13; Col 1:12-20; Lk 23:35-43 The following text guided today’s homily: There’s an aphorism, “be careful what you ask for.” That...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 19, 2010 Last month we discussed the embarrassing results of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which revealed that atheists and agnostics had a much...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Thirty-Third Sunday in OT, Year C November 14, 2010 Mal 3:19-20; 2 Thes 3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19 The following text guided today’s homily: Today’s readings focus on the end times, the day...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 12, 2010 Halloween proved to be particularly ghastly for Syrian Catholics in Baghdad as they went to Church for the Sunday afternoon Mass. During the Eucharistic Celebration at Our Lady of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-Second Sunday in OT, Year C November 7, 2010 2 Macc 7:1-2,9-14; 2 Thes 2:16-3:5; Lk 20:27-38 The following text guided today’s homily: I was re-reading recently Crossing the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 5, 2010 On Sunday, as we were being bombarded with robo-calls, advertisements, television news segments and special programs focused on Tuesday’s elections, a significant commemoration quietly took...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA All Saints Day 2010 Rev 7:2-4,9-14; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 The following text guided today’s homily: Today we celebrate all the saints, all those who have victoriously crossed the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-First Sunday in OT, Year C October 31, 2010 Wis 11:22-12:2; 2 Thes 1:11-2:2; Lk 19:1-10 The following text guided today’s homily: Last week Jesus presented us the parable...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 29, 2010 Several state bishops conferences, including the four Massachusetts bishop who comprise the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, have published letters or guides to the Catholic faithful about...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Dinner with a View Lecture Series Corpus Christi Parish, E. Sandwich, MA October 27, 2010 By Whose Authority? The Foundations, Exercise of and Response to Authority in the Church To download a copy of the PDF for this conference...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford Thirtieth Sunday in OT, Year C October 24, 2010 Sir 35:12-14,16-18; 2 Tim 4:6-8,16-18; Lk 18:9-14 The following text guided today’s homily: A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that there...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 22, 2010 The October 13 rescue of the 33 miners trapped for 69 days in a subterranean dungeon of the San Jose mine in Atacama was one of the most moving, exciting and literally uplifting moments the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Theology on Tap for Harvard Students, Cambridge, MA October 20, 2010 Hearing and Heeding Christ’s Aboriginal Vicar: Following a Well-Formed Conscience to Christian Maturity To download a copy of the PDF for this conference...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Ninth Sunday in OT, Year C October 17, 2010 Ex 17:8-13; 2 Tim 3:14-4:2; Lk 18:1-8 The following text guided today’s homily: In today’s readings, the Lord stresses our need for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 15, 2010 In 1949, an enormous controversy was ignited when the Nobel Foundation awarded its Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Dr. Antonio Egas Moniz for developing the technique of prefrontal...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Eighth Sunday in OT, Year C October 10, 2010 2 Kings 5:14-17; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19 The following text guided today’s homily: Today’s first reading and Gospel are not simply...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 8, 2010 The September 28 publication of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life lent itself to various surprising titles, many of which focused on how atheists...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Seventh Sunday in OT, Year C October 3, 2010 Hab 1:2-3;2:2-4; 2 Tim 1:6-8,13-14; Lk 17:5-10 The following text guided today’s homily: In the Gospel today, the apostles did not...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 1, 2010 Last week we examined how Pope Benedict, in his visit to Great Britain, got the “whole country to sit up and think,” to use the appreciative words of Prime Minister David Cameron. He reminded...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Sixth Sunday in OT, Year C September 26, 2010 Amos 6:1, 4-7; 1 Tim 6:11-16; Lk 16:19-31 The following text guided today’s homily: Unforgettable Gospel. Who among us is not moved...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 24, 2010 At the end of Pope Benedict’s highly successful four-day apostolic journey and state visit to Great Britain, British Prime Minister David Cameron, on behalf of all British citizens...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Fifth Sunday in OT, Year C September 19, 2010 Amos 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 The following text guided today’s homily: This Sunday’s Gospel contains what is probably the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 17, 2010 Around the anniversary of September 11, the subject of Islam in America was very much in the news. There has been the on-going controversy surrounding the planned construction of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Fourth Sunday in OT, Year C September 12, 2010 Ex 32:7-11,13-14; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 The following text guided today’s homily: St. Paul tells us in today’s second...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 10, 2010 What ought to be the response of Catholic believers to the rise of militant secularism in the West that is seeking to exile Christian faith from relevance, cultural history, and the public...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Third Sunday in OT, Year C September 5, 2010 Wis 9:13-18; Philemon 9-10,12-17; Lk 14:25-33 The following text guided today’s homily: It’s tempting for us to try to smooth over...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 3, 2010 Over the past several weeks, we have received a half-dozen phone calls, emails and letters about the paid advertisement that we have been running by the Love and Mercy Publications, found...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 27, 2010 There’s a common phenomenon that occurs when a movie is made based on a best-selling book. Those who have never read the book go to the movie and often appreciate the story on its own merits...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 20, 2010 During the summer months, as there has been much higher volume on local roads as people head to cookouts, travel to Cape Cod, drive to the many local beaches, go to summer camps, sporting...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Solemnity of the Assumption, Year C August 15, 2010 Rev 11:19,12:1-6,10; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 The following text guided today’s homily: On this very rich feast of the Assumption...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 13, 2010 If pictures are said to be worth a thousand words, political cartoons are often far more visually voluble. In the immediate aftermath of Federal District Judge Vaughan R. Walker’s outrageous...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Nineteenth Sunday in OT, Year C August 8, 2010 Wis 18:6-9; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 12:32-48 The following text guided today’s homily: Once in St. Luke’s Gospel, Jesus asked aloud the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 6, 2010 On July 15, the Vatican released updated norms to handle what canon law calls “graviora delicta” or the “more serious crimes.” The publication of these new norms was occasioned above all...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 6, 2010 In this mini-series on the truly Catholic response to the scandals, we have looked at the example of saints, for every crisis in the Church is a crisis of saints and the holy ones...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Eighteenth Sunday in OT, Year C August 1, 2010 Eccl 1:2;2:21-23; Col 3:1-5,9-11; Lk 12:13-21 The following text guided today’s homily: Today in the Gospel, Jesus gets right to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 16, 2010 On June 28, at the Roman basilica built over the human remains of the great apostle St. Paul, Pope Benedict announced that he was founding a new Vatican dicastery, which will be called the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 16, 2010 Ten days ago the Church celebrated the feast of St. Maria Goretti, whose Christian response to suffering sexual abuse as a minor is a light not only for those who have endured the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 16, 2010 On June 28, at the Roman basilica built over the human remains of the great apostle St. Paul, Pope Benedict announced that he was founding a new Vatican dicastery, which will be called the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Fifteenth Sunday in OT, Year C July 11, 2010 Dt 30:10-14; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 The following text guided today’s homily: GO AND DO THE SAME … AND YOU WILL LIVE The lawyer in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 9, 2010 In gambling, the house always wins. That’s why it is particularly worrisome to see those we have elected to guide us wisely behaving like a desperate gambler in the false belief that casino...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 9, 2010 One of the least covered aspects of the clergy sex abuse crisis concerns priests falsely accused. It is hard to put into words what it is like for a man who has dedicated himself to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourteenth Sunday in OT, C July 4, 2010 Is 66:10-14; Gal 6:14-18; Lk 10:1-12,17-20 The following text guided today’s homily: 1) Over the past few weeks, there has been a trilogy among...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 2, 2010 Recently the importance of priestly celibacy in the Church has been questioned from different quarters. Some, influenced by implicit Freudian premises, have suggested that priestly celibacy is a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep July 2, 2010 As the whole Church has been confronted with the evil of the sexual abuse of young people in her midst during the past several decades, one of the most frustrating explanations...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 25, 2010 One of the most pressing problems for our nation to solve is illegal immigration. Recent legislation in Arizona has brought the many social, political and moral issues regarding illegal...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep June 25, 2010 The crises that the Church and the world face are “crises of saints.” This insight of St. Josemaria Escriva, the 35th anniversary of whose birth into eternal life the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 18, 2010 Last month, we noted the irony that Mother’s Day fell on the 50th anniversary of FDA’s approval of something that symbolizes the antithesis of motherhood, the birth control pill. This month, as...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep June 18, 2010 Since last June, to mark the Year for Priests, which took place on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Solemnity of the Sacred Heart 2010 — End of the Year for Priests June 11, 2010 The following text guided today’s homily: When Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Year for Priests Vocational Reflection June 11, 2010 I have always believed that the seeds of priestly vocations are revealed not just in a general desire to give one’s life in the service of others — the starting...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 11, 2010 Today the Year for Priests comes to a close. In the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict is offering Mass with several thousand concelebrating priests joined by the prayers and gratitude...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 11, 2010 Approaching his death, St. Paul wrote to his spiritual son, St. Timothy,” I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” Those words could easily sum...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Corpus Christi, Year C June 6, 2010 Gen 14:18-20; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Lk 9:11-17 The following text guided today’s homily: Year for Priests is coming to an end on Friday. We’ve been guided...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 4, 2010 On behalf of the U.S. Bishops Conference, three leading prelates —Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Houston, Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center and Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City —...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 4, 2010 “God is always almighty,” the Curé of Ars once told his sister. “He can at all times work miracles and he would work them now as in the days of old were it not that faith is wanting.”...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Trinity Sunday, Year C May 30, 2010 Prov 8:22-31; Rom 5:1-5; Jn 16:12-15 The following text guided today’s homily: Feast of who God is. God is a communion of three persons, Father...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 28, 2010 The mission of Catholic schools emanates from the mission of the Catholic Church, commissioned by Jesus to “teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into the Deep May 28, 2010 In Catholic piety, May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It’s a fitting time, therefore, to see what we can learn from St. John Vianney’s ardent devotion to the Mother of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Pentecost Sunday 2010 May 23, 2010 Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3-7,12-13; Rom 8:8-17; Jn 20:19-23; Jn 14:15-16,23-26 The following text guided today’s homily: Beginning of the Church: When...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 21, 2010 The Solemn Feast of Pentecost, which the Church celebrates on Sunday, is an annual opportunity for authentic ecclesial renewal. This year the need for the Church to beg the Holy Spirit for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 21, 2010 St. John Vianney’s mission as pastor, as he mentioned the day of his arrival to eight year-old Antoine Givre, was to show the people of Ars the way to heaven. The beginning that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 14, 2010 On Sunday our nation celebrated Mother’s Day. It’s highly fitting that we stop, at least one day a year, to express our gratitude to and for our mothers, because so often so many children can...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 14, 2010 One of the most memorable events in St. John Vianney’s life occurred the first day he was on the job as pastor. He was near the completion of the 20 mile journey from Écully to Ars...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor First Communion Supplement Feature Article May 7, 2010 The first time a believer receives the flesh and blood of the eternal Son of God in holy Communion ought to be one of the greatest occasions in that person’s life...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 7, 2010 The May 1 Vatican communiqué in response to the Apostolic Visitation of the Legionaries of Christ was a powerful indication of Pope Benedict’s resolve to clean up what he described in his 2005...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 7, 2010 One of the most humbling events in the life of St. John Vianney occurred in May 1845 when Fr. Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, the famous Dominican whose homilies at Paris’ Notre Dame...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 30, 2010 Last week, we examined the Pope’s meeting with Maltese victims of clergy sexual abuse as well as the comments of retired Vatican Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos about the relationship between...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 30, 2010 One of St. John Vianney’s greatest priestly challenges came in the pulpit. He was not naturally eloquent or comfortable in front of crowds. He had not received much of a theological...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 23, 2010 Concentration on the Church’s response to the evil of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy has continued unabated. In the past week, among other headlines, there has been much attention given...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 23, 2010 Last week we focused on the importance of St. John Vianney’s longevity as pastor in Ars. Even though he was a holy, hardworking, amiable, and supremely self-sacrificing pastor, and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 16, 2010 Today is Pope Benedict’s 83rd birthday. The last few weeks have likely seemed for him as long as years, but some semblance of sanity seems to be returning, at least among those who take an...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 16, 2010 Toward the end of St. John Vianney’s life, as pilgrims flocked to Ars from all over France, they would leave marveling not only about having witnessed “God in a man,” as one...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 9, 2010 Lent continues for the Church. The coverage of the Sacred Triduum from the Vatican focused very little on the events of the Lord’s suffering, death and resurrection, but mainly on what Benedict...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 9, 2010 On Monday of Holy Week, the Gospel at daily Mass focused of Mary of Bethany’s anointing Jesus’ feet with oil made from genuine aromatic nard. Judas Iscariot immediately objected to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 2, 2010 Today the whole Church somberly meditates on the Passion of the Lord Jesus. We focus anew on how the chief priests of the temple and others plotted to get him killed: how they put Jesus on a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 2, 2010 The saints are always given to us as models of the Christian life. St. John Vianney is given not merely to priests as a patron and exemplar but to all the faithful as an icon of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 26, 2010 Pope Benedict’s March 19 pastoral letter to the Church of Ireland was an unprecedentedly candid and direct condemnation of the double-evil of the clerical sexual abuse of minors and of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 26, 2010 On Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the whole Church will contemplate in unison the Passion of the Lord Jesus. It is a day on which we seek to grasp the greatest of all paradoxes: how a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 19, 2010 On Monday, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, published a lengthy statement — entitled “The Cost is Too High; The Loss is Too...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 19, 2010 Last week we saw the heroic charity of St. John Vianney, who sought to treat others with the same limitless love with which Christ loves. He was never content to give merely...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 12, 2010 As President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress continue to approach the artificial deadline of March 18 to have the House of Representatives pass the Senate version of the Health...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 12, 2010 Because love is the point of human life and the means of holiness, it’s not at all surprising that St. John Vianney excelled in Christ-like charity. The Curé of Ars’ example is a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 5, 2010 Fifty years ago this September, while campaigning for the presidency, John F. Kennedy went to Houston to try to convince the Protestant Ministers of the Great Houston Ministerial Association...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 5, 2010 “I’m a liar. Do you believe me?” That mind-twisting statement, said to me humorously by a high school teacher, is germane to whether we can consider credible anything the devil says...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 26, 2010 The richness, depth and clarity of the homilies and catecheses Pope Benedict has given during his first five years as the successor of St. Peter have provoked several experts in Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 26, 2010 Last we described the various vexations by which the devil for over 35 years harassed the patron saint of priests at night as he was trying to get a couple of hours of rest...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 19, 2010 The Catholic Church as a whole has its work cut out to respond adequately to the secularizing push of American culture. In Catholic homes, parishes, schools, religious education programs...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 19, 2010 “The first time the devil came to torment me,” St. John Vianney recounted to catechism students many years later, “was one night at 9 pm, just as I was about to go to bed. Three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 12, 2010 Ever since the Bush Administration and a cooperative Congress increased funding for abstinence-only education programs, there has been a concerted effort to try to say that such instruction...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 12, 2010 Among those who, prior to this Year for Priests, had heard about the Curé of Ars but did not know much about him, most likely they had heard of two facts: that he was an heroic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 5, 2010 Last year, for his annual message for World Communications Day, Pope Benedict made a powerful appeal to young Catholics to become the apostles of the new communications frontier produced by...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 5, 2010 Last week, as the Church in the United States was preparing for Catholic Schools Week, we focused on all the sacrifices St. John Vianney made and work he did in Ars to found a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
February 1, 2010
1Sam 15:13-14 30; 16:5-13, Ps 3:2-7, Mk 5:1-20
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 31, 2010
Jer 1:4-5 17-19, Ps 71:1-6 15-17, 1Cor 12:31–13:13, Lk 4:21-30
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 29, 2010 Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley in the special election for U.S. Senate has not only massive national ramifications but perhaps even more pronounced statewide implications. January...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 29, 2010 Perhaps as a result of his many hardships due to the inadequate education he received as a young boy, St. John Vianney was always a great apostle of the importance of Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
January 29, 2010
2Sam 11:1-4a 5-10a 13-17, Ps 51:3-7 10-11, Mk 4:26-34
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
January 28, 2010
2Saml 7:18-19 24-29, Ps 132:1-5 11-14, Mk 4:21-25
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 27, 2010
2Sam 7:4-17, Ps 89:4-5 27-30, Mk 4:1-20
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops
January 26, 2010
PS 96:1-3 7-8 10, 2Tim 1:1-8, Lk 10:1-9
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, apostle
January 25, 2010
Ps 117:1-2, Mk 16:15-18
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 24, 2010
Neh 8:2-4a 5-6 8-10, Ps 19:8-10 15, 1Cor 12:12-30, Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 23, 2010
2Sam 1:1-4 11-12 19 23-27, Ps 80:2-3 5-7, Mk 3:20-21
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 22, 2010 We have all been watching with tear-filled eyes and pierced hearts the scenes of devastation coming from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We’re staggered by the estimated death toll of 200,000. Our...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 22, 2010 In the past two weeks, we’ve focused on two of the great challenges St. John Vianney faced in his priestly life. The first came from various lay people in Ars who disparaged...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 21, 2010
1Sam 18:6-9; 19:1-7, Ps 56:2-3 9-14, Mk 3:7-12
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 20, 2010
1Sam 17:32-33 37 40-51, Ps 144:1-2 9-10, Mk 3:1-6
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 19, 2010
1Sam 16:1-13, Ps 89:20-22 27-28, Mk 2:23-28
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 18, 2010
1Sam 15:16-23, Ps 50:8-9 16-17 21 23, Mk 2:18-22
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 17, 2010
Is 62:1-5, Ps 96:1-3 7-10, 1Cor 12:4-11, Jn 2:1-11
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 16, 2010
1Sam 9:1-4 17-19; 10:1, Ps 21:2-7, Mk 2:13-17
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 15, 2010 When civil governments declare a special year — like last year’s celebrations of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln — it generally remains on the periphery of most people’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 15, 2010 When I was a seminarian, a priest I knew was taking me out to dinner. On the way to the restaurant, we passed a church whose territory bordered the parish where he was pastor...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 15, 2010
1Sam 8:4-7 10-22, Ps 89:16-19, Mk 2:1-12
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 14, 2010
1Sam 4:1-11, Ps 44:10-11 14-15 25-26, Mk 1:40-45
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 12, 2010
1Sam 1:9-20, 1Sam 2:1 4-8, Mk 1:21-28
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 11, 2010
1Sam 1:1-8, Ps 116:12-19, Mk 1:14-20
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
January 10, 2010
Is 42:1-4 6-7, Ps 29:1-4 3 9-10, Acts 10:34-38, Lk 3:15-16 21-22
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday after the Epiphany of the Lord
January 9, 2010
1Jn 5:14-21, Ps 149:1-6a 9, Jn 3:22-30
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 8, 2010 On December 9, in the days of preparation for Christmas, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published the results of a survey that suggested that theological confusion may pose a larger...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 8, 2010 One of the most difficult things for any of us to deal with is criticism. It’s hard enough when we’re criticized justly and constructively. When the criticism is unmerited, off...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 24, 2009 Each year the joy of Christmas is contextualized by the remembrance of those whom Christian tradition has called the Holy Innocents, the male infants two years old and younger who were...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 24, 2009 St. John Vianney always loved the major feasts of our faith, but Christmas in particular filled him with extraordinary joy. In the tiny baby Jesus lying in the manger, the Curé...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 18, 2009 Even though President Barack Obama admitted that his accomplishments up until now have been “slight” and that he couldn’t argue with those who would have found others “far more deserving” of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 18, 2009 Because of his work in the confessional, preaching on conversion, heroic life of fasting and little sleep, battles against the devil, and crusades against indecent dancing and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 11, 2009 On the day American Catholics celebrated Thanksgiving, Catholics in Ireland marked what should be called Ash Thursday, the first day of what portends to be a long ecclesial Lent. On November...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 11, 2009 Within this year-long series of articles on St. John Vianney, the 150th of whose birth into eternal life provided the occasion for Pope Benedict to declare the Year for Priests...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 4, 2009 Later in this edition, we print in full a remarkable declaration of American Christians— clergy and lay, Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical— that is a brilliant analysis of the ongoing series...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 4, 2009 Last week we discussed how demanding St. John Vianney was in requiring a firm purpose of amendment from those who came to him to receive the Sacrament of Penance. For a confession...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 27, 2009 In a November 20 letter to U.S. Senators about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s 2,074 page health care reform bill, Cardinal Daniel Dinardo, Bishop William Murphy and Bishop John Wester...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 27, 2009 In the last two weeks, we’ve discussed how St. John Vianney would try to help people to make better confessions. He began by teaching them how to examine their consciences more...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 20, 2009 After the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, we argued that among the lessons needing to be learned from the history of the Church’s interaction with “pro-choice” Catholic politicians on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 20, 2009 Last week, we began to look at how St. John Vianney, once he got his parishioners to return to the Sacrament of Penance, sought to help them get more out of it. His strategy was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 13, 2009 Two weeks ago New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan captured the attention of Catholics across the country by writing a compelling critique of recent examples of anti-Catholicism in the New York...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 13, 2009 During his fruitful decades as the Curé of Ars, St. John Vianney not only labored to get his people to come to confession but to help them become good and better penitents. In...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 6, 2009 We discussed last week the very positive development of Pope Benedict’s decision to establish personal ordinariates for Anglican faithful and clergy seeking full communion with the Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 6, 2009 Last week we examined how St. John Vianney used his pulpit to draw people to God in the confessional. Through his homilies at Mass and his catechetical lessons for kids and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 30, 2009 Pope Benedict’s decision to create a relatively easy and straightforward canonical pathway for Anglicans who share the Catholic faith to enter the Catholic Church is one of the most...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 30, 2009 Last week, we examined one of the reasons why St. John Vianney’s confessional became the most besieged one in the history of the Church: he prayed and sacrificed so much for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 23, 2009 Last week we mentioned the increasingly firm statements of the leaders of the U.S. bishops that unless President Barack Obama actually make good on his September 9 promise to the American...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 23, 2009 A few weeks ago, when I began this miniseries on St. John Vianney as a confessor, I asked why so many men and women from throughout France made enormous sacrifices to get to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 16, 2009 Eight days ago, the U.S. bishops drew a line in the sand on health care reform. Three of the bishops who have been most actively involved in the health care debate — Cardinal Justin Rigali of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 16, 2009 A priest classmate recently told me that whenever he preaches about confession, he now talks primarily about how much he personally needs confession. He said that this one of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 9, 2009 Last week, in our continuing survey of Catholic analysis of the present health care reform proposals, we began an examination of the “Principles of Catholic Social Teaching and Health Care...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 9, 2009 Last week, we focused on the “great miracle” of St. John Vianney’s confessional, to which prodigal sons and daughters from all over France flocked to be embraced by the merciful...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 2, 2009 In our continuing survey of Catholic analysis of the present health care reform proposals, we turn this week to the most comprehensive analysis to be issued by any of the U.S. Bishops, a joint...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 2, 2009 “The great miracle of the Curé of Ars,” one of his contemporaries said during the process for beatification “was his confessional, besieged day and night.” The fundamental reason...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 25, 2009 The debate about health care reform continues to occupy much of the nation’s attention, as well it should, considering the gravity of the need for reform and the magnitude of the proposed...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 25, 2009 Two weeks ago, we looked at how St. John Vianney’s whole life was transformed into a prayer. Last Friday, we examined what he taught his parishioners about prayer in general...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 18, 2009 The funeral rites of Senator Edward Kennedy generated a lot of controversy. Cardinal Sean O’Malley, in an entry on his weekly blog, told us very clearly why: “Needless to say, the Senator’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 18, 2009 Last week we looked at how St. John Vianney, the patron saint of priests, was an example of “an existence made prayer.” The focus of all his pastoral work in Ars was to help his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 11, 2009 Last week, our editorial argued that one of the most important lessons pastors of the Church in the United States need to draw from the history of interactions with Senator Ted Kennedy on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 11, 2009 In a catechesis on July 1, Pope Benedict declared what is the “first task” and “the true path of sanctification” for a Christian — prayer — and why St. John Vianney is so...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 4, 2009 There is no debating that Senator Edward Kennedy lived a highly consequential life. Over the span of his 47-year career in the Senate, he became one of the nation’s most effective and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 4, 2009 The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council taught that Jesus in the Eucharist is meant to be the “source and the summit of the Christian life.” In other words, for a life to be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 28, 2009 As we wrote about earlier this month, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, on behalf of the U.S. Bishops, has specified two main areas of concern with respect to the health care reforms...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 28, 2009 The most important part of St. John Vianney’s efforts to convert his parish in Ars was to help his people to recover a sense of the sacred importance of the Lord’s Day. The fathers...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 21, 2009 Last Friday in Hyannis the Church celebrated the funeral of a truly remarkable, faithful and strong Catholic woman who was the personification of the Good Samaritan toward those with special...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 21, 2009 Last week we focused in general on the heroic prayer, penance and preaching St. John Vianney engaged in to bring about the total conversion of his parish. Like any good shepherd...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 14, 2009 In his recent encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict dedicates five paragraphs to how a proper understanding of and care for the environment is essential for the integral development...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 14, 2009 When Fr. John Vianney was notified that he was being sent to Ars, three years after his priestly ordination, his vicar general told him, “There is not much love for God in that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 7, 2009 Everyone knows that our health care system is in need of reform. Rising costs are crippling the budgets of families, small businesses and even large corporations. Insurance plans are charging...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 7, 2009 Sacred Scripture abounds in examples of how God has repeatedly taken the least and made them great in salvation history. Abraham was a childless octogenarian who became the father...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B August 2, 2009 Ex 16:2-4, 12-15; Eph 4:17,20-24; Jn 6:24-35 What brings us here? In the Gospel, we see that those who received Jesus’ free...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 17, 2009 “To the bishops, priests and deacons, men and women religious, the lay faithful and all people of good will.” That’s how Pope Benedict addresses his third encyclical, Caritas in Veritate...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 17, 2009 The future patron saint of priests, John Vianney, never desired merely to be a priest. He hungered to be a truly holy priest. One of the greatest means God used to help him learn the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 10, 2009 On June 28, when Pope Benedict concluded the Year of St. Paul at the Basilica outside the walls in Rome, most of the headlines generated centered on his announcement that tests on the bones...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 10, 2009 A few years ago, as I was preaching at the first Mass of Thanksgiving of a newly ordained priest, I made reference to a quotation of the Curé of Ars that, prior to my ordination...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 3, 2009 Most Americans can cite or at least paraphrase by memory the celebrated phrase of the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 3, 2009 I begin today a series of articles on St. John Vianney, the Curé or pastor of Ars, who was declared by Pope Pius XI in 1929 the patron saint of parish priests and who, during this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 26, 2009 We have come to the end of the Year of St. Paul, in which the whole Church, celebrating the 2000th anniversary of the great apostle’s birth, has focused on learning to imitate him as he imitated...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 26, 2009 When Pope Benedict announced on March 16 that he was declaring a Year of the Priesthood, my first reaction was total joy. I love these ecclesiastical years which do for the Mystical...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 19, 2009 Today we begin the Year of the Priesthood on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI called for this year back on March 16 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 19, 2009 A few weeks ago, I was interviewed for a story on fatherhood by the National Catholic Register. The reporter noted that Father’s Day this year occurs the day before the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 5, 2009 In the days leading up to the celebration of Pentecost, the traditional birthday of the Church, Pope Benedict gave his yearly address to the annual synod for the Diocese of Rome. The theme of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 12, 2009 Throughout this year of St. Paul, as I’ve had the chance to go through the details and the writings of the great apostle anew in greater depth, I have often returned to one figure...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 5, 2009 Since abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered on Sunday during a worship service at Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, the reaction of the vast majority of people on both sides of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 5, 2009 I have always had a great devotion to the martyrs and for this reason, June has always been a special month. We begin the month with the memorials of Saints Justin, Marcellinus and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 29, 2009 Ever since Jesus’ brief valedictory address when he said, “Go … and teach all nations” (Mt 28:18), education has always been among the Church’s highest priorities and greatest glories. Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 29, 2009 For the past few decades, the popes have been trying to inspire Catholics to take up their role in the re-evangelization of areas where the Church was once strong but where now the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 22, 2009 Twice in the past two months, we have described why Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama by granting him an honorary doctorate of law and by inviting him to deliver its...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 22, 2009 When I was in Louisiana in March, I made my second pilgrimage to the parish church dedicated to St. Landry in Opelousas. The last time I had been there was ten years ago, ten days...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 21, 2009 Last week we focused in general on the heroic prayer, penance and preaching St. John Vianney engaged in to bring about the total conversion of his parish. Like any good shepherd...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 15, 2009 Over the past week, a scandal has ripped through the heart of Spanish-speaking Catholicism and spilled over into the national network morning television programs. At the center of it is Fr...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 15, 2009 I spent the summer of 1996 in Portugal, where Bishop O’Malley sent me to study Portuguese at the University of Lisbon. Among the many highlights and memories from that time was the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 8, 2009 Four weeks ago we wrote on the symbolic messages the University of Notre Dame was giving Catholics and non-Catholics in the country by inviting President Barack Obama to give its May 17...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 8, 2009 Over the next week, as Pope Benedict is in the Holy Land visiting the principal sites of our redemption, any of us who have had the privilege of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 1, 2009 The Fourth Sunday of Easter, traditionally called Good Shepherd Sunday because each year at Mass the Gospel is about Jesus’ self-identification as the Good Shepherd, is the annual occasion of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 1, 2009 Ten days ago the Church marked the 900th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of the man Pope Benedict calls “one of the most luminous figures in the tradition of the Church and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 24, 2009 Last September, Stonehill College and the Diocese of Fall River sponsored an important symposium entitled, “Apostolic Religious Life since Vatican II … Reclaiming the Treasure: Bishops...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 24, 2009 Last Wednesday, I was in the capital of the world for the installation of Archbishop Timothy Dolan as the new shepherd of the Archdiocese of New York. Prior to the Mass, as I was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 17, 2009 A year ago, Pope Benedict was in the midst of his apostolic pilgrimage to the United States to lead us in spiritual renewal on the theme of “Christ our Hope.” In his visits with Christians in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 17, 2009 When I first entered Mount St. Mary’s seminary in Maryland, I met some fellow seminarians with a devotion to the Divine Mercy. They would often get together and recite the chaplet...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
2009 Seminar for Priests
April 13-15, 2009
Arnold Hall
The Curé of Ars and the Ars Confessoris
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Cure of Ars and the Ars Confessoris
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 10, 2009 For the first several years of his preaching of the Gospel, St. Paul for the most part ducked the subject of the Cross. With Jews, he preached on how Jesus was the fulfillment of all the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 10, 2009 One of the most moving moments of Pope Benedict’s recent trip to Africa was when he stopped at the Cardinal Léger Center in Yaounde, Cameroon on March 19. The center, founded in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 3, 2009 On Sunday, we will all listen to St. Mark’s account of the Passion. We will recall Judas’ perfidy, the failure of Peter, James and John to stay awake in prayerful vigil with the Lord in his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 3, 2009 One of my great joys is to preach retreats and parish missions. In my first decade as a priest, I’ve given about 30 of them, to priests, seminarians, religious sisters and cloistered...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 27, 2009 Over the last few decades, our society has made great progress against discrimination and harassment in the work place. The rights that flow from workers’ human dignity have been increasingly...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 27, 2009 Last Friday and Saturday, the Diocese of Fall River held its first ever Diocesan Reconciliation Weekend. As priests stepped into their confessionals and reconciliation rooms across...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 20, 2009 On March 10, Pope Benedict sent the bishops of the world a letter (see p. 18) clarifying his January 21 gesture of reconciliation toward the four validly but illicitly ordained bishops of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 20, 2009 In his beautiful 1984 Apostolic Exhortation on the Sacrament of Penance entitled “Reconciliation and Penance,” Pope John Paul II names four “extraordinary apostles of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 13, 2009 President Obama’s Monday executive order to lift President Bush’s 2001 ban on using our tax money to fund the destruction of human embryos for embryonic stem cell research is a disgraceful...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 13, 2009 We are celebrating this year the 150th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of the patron saint of parish priests, St. John Vianney (1786-1859. The Curé of the tiny French...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 6, 2009 There’s a necessarily prophetic dimension to the proclamation of the faith. While the Gospel is fundamentally, supremely and not merely etymologically “good news” — a jubilant “yes” to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 6, 2009 During my seminary years, my parents would come to Rome to visit each February when plane fares would drop to as low as $300 round-trip. I would always arrange for them to stay...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 27, 2009 During the past two weeks in Florida and Arizona, the world’s greatest baseball players have been fielding ground balls, catching pop ups, laying down bunts, working on pick-off moves...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 27, 2009 I sang a Te Deum early Monday morning when, after years of speculation, Pope Benedict named Archbishop Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee as the Archbishop of New York. With many of my...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 20, 2009 Everyone agrees that Nadya Suleman did something wrong. Where the debate begins is over what she did wrong, why it was wrong, and what our society needs to do to prevent its recurrence. The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 20, 2009 On Sunday night, the Academy Awards will be given out. It is the most important feast of the liturgical year for our culture’s new idolatry: the worship of celebrities. It begins...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 13, 2009 We are now in the midst of a campaign by the four Massachusetts dioceses to strengthen Catholic marriages entitled “The Future Depends on Love.” This week is a good opportunity — coming as...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 13, 2009 There’s something beautiful about St. Valentine’s Day. It’s a day on which romantic love is justly celebrated and couples feel inspired to show their affection for each other in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 6, 2009 In his great priestly prayer on the night he was betrayed, Jesus implored his Father that all the disciples would be one as the persons of the Blessed Trinity are one. He said that their...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 6, 2009 Next Thursday we celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of the greatest president ever to serve our country. He has long been considered great on account of his most notable...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 30, 2009 We are concluding Catholic Schools Week, which is an annual opportunity for the Church in the United States to focus on our young people and to remember that not only is the future of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 30, 2009 This Sunday we will all get a chance to focus on a true hero whose impressive athletic exploits are eclipsed by his personal accomplishments. Here in New England, we can sometimes...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 23, 2009 This Sunday we celebrate one of the highlights of the Year of St. Paul now underway: his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus. Pope Benedict has both authorized and encouraged Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 23, 2009 Three years ago this Sunday, Pope Benedict published his first encyclical letter, Deus Caritas Est, about the love of God that we are called to receive and to share. In it he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 16, 2009 Last week we focused on the general outlook of Dignitas Personae, the December instruction of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on bioethical issues at the beginning of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 16, 2009 On Tuesday I traveled to Immaculate Conception Church in Manhattan for the funeral of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, founder and editor-in-chief of First Things magazine, author of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 9, 2009 During Advent, as the attention of the Christian world was meditating anew on how the Word of God had taken on our nature, was conceived as an embryo in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 9, 2009 100 years ago today in Carracastle in County Mayo, Patrick Joseph Peyton was born, the sixth of nine children. Like so many born in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 24, 2008 For the last nine days, Hispanic Catholics in our diocese and across the country have been celebrating “las posadas.” This is an annual novena, begun in Mexico and now observed throughout...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 24, 2008 One of my Christmas traditions as a teenager, in a parish without a Christmas Midnight Mass, was to turn on NBC at 11:30 pm and watch the time-delay broadcast of the Midnight...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 19, 2008 In 2005 we dedicated an editorial to Illinois Governor Milorad “Rod” Blagojevich after he signed an executive order compelling Illinois pharmacists — against their conscience, religious...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 19, 2008 Last week we encountered the heroism of the 35,000 Japanese martyrs who gave the supreme testimony to Christ between 1597-1639. It may have seemed a strange column to appear in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 12, 2008 There has been much written about the present economic mess of our country, but most of it has been a superficial analysis of the immediate causes rather than a penetrating examination of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 12, 2008 No Catholics of any country have suffered more for their faith in Christ than the Japanese. Now, nearly 400 years after they endured the most systematically brutal persecution in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 5, 2008 The day after Thanksgiving was black not merely out of retailers’ hope for their financial bottom line. It was black because of what happened at 5 am at the Walmart in Valley Steam, New York...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 5, 2008 For four days last week the whole world was united in horror and prayerful concern in response to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. In a series of ten coordinated attacks across India’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 5, 2008 Fifteen years ago this Monday, on the Solemnity of Mary’s Immaculate Conception in 1993, I did one of the most consequential things of my life. I was at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 28, 2008 During their annual meeting earlier this month, the Bishops of the United States, even though they had several other items on their agenda, spent much of their time discussing the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 28, 2008 One of the great joys for me during this Year of St. Paul has been the opportunity to preach and teach about this great hero of our faith. I have been able to preach on St. Paul...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 21, 2008 There’s a passage in St. Paul’s Letter to the Church in Philippi in which he calls the attention of the Macedonian Christians to the epicureans among whom they were living. He calls these...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 21, 2008 During this month in which we celebrate all saints, it is fitting of course that we have some Americans to cheer. Last Thursday we celebrated the feast of St. Frances Xavier...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 14, 2008 “Those who would legislate the composition of our families won some disturbing victories on Election Day,” began Sunday’s Editorial in the New Bedford Standard Times. The newspaper lamented...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 14, 2008 On Tuesday we celebrated the feast of one of the most famous and influential saints of the early Church, St. Martin of Tours. His conversion story, charity, reputation for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 7, 2008 Recently a large international study on Catholics and the Bible found that only three percent of Catholics read the Bible each day. Eighty percent of Catholics confess that the only time they...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 7, 2008 One of the most enjoyable and exhausting pilgrimages of my life began on Christmas night during my first year as a seminarian in Rome. With classmates from Illinois and Oklahoma...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 31, 2008 During the past two months, we have run a series of editorials seeking to inform the consciences of Catholics with regard to our moral duty to defend innocent human life. We have tried to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 31, 2008 Tonight we celebrate All Hallows’ Eve, meant originally to be the vespers of the feast on which we celebrate all the saints in heaven and reflect on the vocation we’ve received...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 24, 2008 We received a not-for-print letter to the editor last week from an Anchor reader who said he has appreciated our series of editorials on the importance of the issue of abortion in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 24, 2008 Last October 28 in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict presided over the largest beatification in the history of the Church, as 498 Spanish martyrs were raised to the altars. They...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 17, 2008 In the past several months, some prominent Catholics — like Pennsylvania Senator Robert Casey, Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec and Duquesne legal scholar Nicholas Cafardi — have been...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 17, 2008 When I meet with couples preparing for marriage, we always discuss why Christian marriage is a sacrament. The ultimate purpose of every sacrament is to make those who receive it...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 10, 2008 No news story marking yesterday’s 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII failed to include the controversy over his actions with respect to the Holocaust during the Second World War...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 10, 2008 Yesterday the Church marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII, the man chosen by God to lead the Church during one of the most terrible times in human history...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Catholic Medical Association Annual Meeting Baltimore, MD October 9, 2008 Interpersonal Relations in the Theology of the Body To download a copy of the PDF for this conference, please click below: Interpersonal Relations in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 3, 2008 Two months ago, we marked the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI’s encyclical that reiterated that every act of love making by spouses needs to be open to the transmission of life and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 3, 2008 On September 28, the Church marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul I, bishop of Rome for a stunningly brief 33 days. In a Church that thinks in centuries, his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 26, 2008 The bishops of the United States have been vigilant and busy this election cycle not only in responding to false statements about Church teaching on human life and abortion by Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 26, 2008 Tomorrow we celebrate the feast day of a saint whose name is known by almost all Catholics but whose remarkable life is known only by a few. In terms of the sheer amount of good...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 19, 2008 The bishops of the United States are taking a much more public role in forming the consciences of the faithful with regard to the social and personal moral stakes involved in the upcoming...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 19, 2008 It is often commented how much our culture needs genuine heroes. These examples of virtue in the midst of ordinary and extraordinary vicissitude lift us up by revealing to us...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 12, 2008 On Valentine’s Day this year, the New Bedford Standard Times ran a front-page article documenting the latest data on teen pregnancy rates in Massachusetts. The article said that in 2006...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 12, 2008 When I became a seminarian in 1993, I began to pay much more attention to the Church’s liturgical calendar. I already had a strong devotion to the saints in general, nourished...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 5, 2008 One lie generally leads to others. Unless one admits the first falsity, that person usually needs to tell other fabrications to buttress the initial one. Few are the parents, teachers...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 5, 2008 Each morning, as I scan the news on the internet, I copy certain articles into digital folders on my computer, to serve as the raw material for future editorials or, if they...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 29, 2008 For over a century, Americans have celebrated Labor Day on the first Monday in September. This national holiday was established in the 1880s for two reasons: to mark the irreplaceable role of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 29, 2008 The second half of August is a time when students begin returning to college. It’s also a time when those preparing to be priests head to seminary. Most years this exodus of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 22, 2008 The recent disclosure of former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards’ marital infidelity has revealed much about him as a person, but much more about how far many in our culture...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 22, 2008 Yesterday we celebrated the feast of the birth into eternal life of the founder of the Diocese of Fall River, Pope St. Pius X. This saintly shepherd always had special affection...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 15, 2008 Today we celebrate the Assumption of our Lady, body and soul, into heaven. It is a feast on which we celebrate not only the reality of heaven and the passage of our spiritual Mother to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 15, 2008 During my seminary years in Rome, when we needed a vacation but didn’t have much money to spend, we would generally head to Belgium. It was pretty easy to find a cheap, direct...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 8, 2008 On July 20, a group calling itself Roman Catholic Womenpriests conducted the simulation of the Catholic presbyteral ordination rite for three women at a Protestant Church in Boston. Boston was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 8 2008 Eight years ago, during my last year of studies in Rome, I received an email from a friend with whom I used to work in Washington, DC. “Hi, Father Roger,” Peter wrote, “I just wanted...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word Birmingham, AL July 18-20, 2008 “Enrolling in the School of the Saints” Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Wis 12:13,16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Birmingham, AL
July 18-20, 2008
“Enrolling in the School of the Saints”
First Homily
Revelations 3:1-22, Matthew 13:1-23
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Birmingham, AL
July 18-20, 2008
“Enrolling in the School of the Saints”
Introduction: Plan of Holiness
Introduction
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Birmingham, AL
July 18-20, 2008
“Enrolling in the School of the Saints”
Second Homily, The School of Mary
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Birmingham, AL
July 18-20, 2008
“Enrolling in the School of the Saints”
Prayer
Prayer
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Birmingham, AL
July 18-20, 2008
“Enrolling in the School of the Saints”
Reconciliation
Holiness, Reconciliation
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Birmingham, AL
July 18-20, 2008
“Enrolling in the School of the Saints”
Hearing and Proclaiming the Word of God
Hearing, Spreading Word
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Birmingham, AL
July 18-20, 2008
“Enrolling in the School of the Saints”
Sunday Mass
Sunday Mass
The Growth of the Lord In Us and Through Us, Enrolling in the School of the Saints, July 18-20, 2008
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat at Casa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word Birmingham, AL July 18-20, 2008 “Enrolling in the School of the Saints” Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Wis 12:13,16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 18, 2008 The love of man and woman in marriage was meant from the beginning to be a “sacrament” of the love within the heart of the Blessed Trinity. God created man in his image… “male and female he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 18, 2008 The last time I was in Portugal visiting my friends João and Maria and their seven wonderful kids, Maria took me to visit the ruins of a former Carmelite Church on the promontory...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Pittsburgh Catholic Men’s Conference
Duquesne University
July 11-12, 2008
Man in the Theology of Creation
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Pittsburgh, Theology of Creation
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pittsburgh Catholic Men’s Conference Duquesne University July 11-12, 2008 A Masculine Love of our Eucharistic Lord To download a copy of the PDF for this conference, please click below: Pittsburgh, Manly Love of the Eucharist...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pittsburgh Catholic Men’s Conference Duquesne University July 11-12, 2008 14th Saturday in Ordinary Time. Cycle II Jesus and Overcoming Our Fears To download a copy of the PDF for this homily, please click below: Pittsburgh...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 11, 2008 In a June 25 interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the Papal Master of Ceremonies Msgr. Guido Marini caught the attention of the Catholic world when he announced that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 11, 2008 Back in 1994, as he was preparing the Church to put out into the deep for the third Christian millennium, Pope John Paul II wrote that “there is a need to foster the recognition of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Pittsburgh Catholic Men’s Conference
Duquesne University
July 11-12, 2008
The Manly Way to Relate to the Trinity
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Pittsburgh, Theology of the Trinity
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 3, 2008 When President Bush addressed Pope Benedict XVI on the White House Lawn in April, he invited the Holy Father to give all Americans a catechesis on the true meaning of freedom. “In a world where...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 4, 2008 Sports are meant to play a larger role in human life than wins and losses. At every level — from youth leagues, to high school and NCAA programs, to professional sports — athletic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 27, 2008 Tomorrow night, at the basilica built outside Rome’s ancient walls over the tomb of the Apostle to the Gentiles, Pope Benedict will inaugurate the much-anticipated Year of St. Paul. Benedict...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 27, 2008 When I arrived in Rome as a seminarian thirteen years ago, I began to spend an inordinate amount of time in and around St. Peter’s Basilica. It was conveniently just down the hill...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 20, 2008 Last Friday, the bishops of the United States overwhelmingly approved a teaching statement entitled, “On Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” In it, the bishops tackle head-on the arguments some make...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 20, 2008 No matter how many times we hear the Lord’s words, “You must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Mt 24:44), they seem always to catch us off guard...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua, New Bedford, MA Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 15, 2008 Ex 19:2-6; Rom 5:6-11; Mt 9:36-10:8 Today’s readings focus on two essential and related elements: ELECTION by God of a group of people...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 13, 2008 The great 20th century Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote that there are really only two types of people in the world, “those who say to God ‘thy will be done’ and those to whom God says ‘thy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 13, 2008 The Church celebrates today one of the most popular saints of all time. Portuguese and Italians love him so much that both claim him as their own. The former call him St. Anthony of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 6, 2008 After the Supreme Court in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision judicially legalized abortion throughout the country, a few famous Catholic politicians sought to separate their faith from their life...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 6, 2008 June is traditionally the month dedicated to Jesus’ Sacred Heart. It’s always struck me as noteworthy that we don’t have a feast of Jesus’ sacred brain, even though Jesus is...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 30, 2008 On May 12, by a 4-3 margin, the California Supreme Court found a right to same-sex marriage in the California Constitution that all previous courts, back to the writing of the Constitution, had...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 30, 2008 Over the past 40 years, since Rolf Hochbuth, a communist, wrote his fictional 1963 play The Deputy in order to undermine Church authority with the calumny that Pope Pius XII was a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 23, 2008 The Church is preparing to celebrate on Sunday the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord. The Sequence for this feast, the Lauda Sion Salvatorem — written by St. Thomas Aquinas in 1264 at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 23, 2008 I’m writing from Italy where I’m the chaplain for a pilgrimage of American consecrated virgins who, after their international congress in Rome last week, have launched out with me on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 16, 2008 A recent Marist college poll of Americans’ reactions to Pope Benedict’s visit revealed that by a wide margin the “most meaningful” part of the papal pilgrimage was not the huge Masses at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 16, 2008 On Sunday we celebrated Mother’s Day. It was a day for all of us to remember the inestimable gift of our mothers and of the importance of motherhood in a culture in which it so...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 9, 2008 Faithful Catholics in America and abroad have long had concerns about the United Nations. Unlike with secular criticism of the institution, these apprehensions do not center fundamentally on the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 9, 2008 Today we finish the series on the Vatican Scavi. I began the series five weeks ago, as we were waiting for the arrival of Pope Benedict, in order to buttress the faith of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 2, 2008 Pope Benedict came to the United States not merely to speak with Catholics and call them to a new Pentecost. He came to speak to all Americans: to remind us who we are, what our particular...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 2, 2008 Last week we described the elation of the excavators when they found the prince of the apostle’s tomb underneath the main altar of St. Peter’s basilica in 1941, a victory monument...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 25, 2008 During his apostolic pilgrimage, Pope Benedict, conveyed repeatedly that in celebrating the “bicentennial of a watershed in the history of the Church in the United States, its first great...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 25, 2008 In the last two columns, we focused on Peter’s death — crucified upside down in the Circus of Caligula and Nero— and on his burial a short distance from the Circus on the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Boston Catholic Men’s Conference
April 19, 2008
Summary and Application of Pope Benedict’s Homily at Nationals Stadium
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B16 Nationals Park Homily
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 18, 2008 At the end of his Regina Caeli address on Sunday, Pope Benedict summarized the purpose of his trip to the United States which is now underway. “This Tuesday,” he said, “I leave Rome for my...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 18, 2008 After St. Peter died upside down on a cross in the Circus of Caligula and Nero, the surviving Christians obtained his body and buried him quickly nearby, on the steeply sloping...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 11, 2008 In anticipation of his apostolic pilgrimage to the United States next week, Pope Benedict on Tuesday recorded a video message to the American people. It sums up what he hopes to accomplish on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 11, 2008 Besides the celebration of the sacraments, the greatest privilege of my life has been to be a guide to the Vatican Scavi, the Italian name for the excavations underneath St. Peter’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 4, 2008 In September 2006, Pope Benedict gave a speech on the mutual dependence of faith and reason to university professors at the University of Regensburg. One of the conclusions that flow from the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 4, 2008 Yesterday, I had the joy — while leading a pilgrimage of journalists and authors to Italy — of visiting Assisi and celebrating Mass at the tomb of one of the greatest and most...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 28, 2008 Holy Week turned out to be a very good week on Beacon Hill. Legislators in the Joint Judiciary Committee effectively killed several bills that would have created even more chaos with regard to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 28, 2008 Though in our lifetimes, probably all of us have gotten to know some very holy priests, no native born American priest has ever been formally declared a saint. Moreover, in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 21, 2008 Today we solemnly mark the day on which the Lamb of God was slain to take away the sins of the world. It is a day on which we see, in the mutilated body of Christ on the Cross, the real...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 21, 2008 There are many saints fittingly associated with Good Friday: the Blessed Mother, the apostle John, Mary Magdalene, Simon of Cyrene, and Veronica. All of them, in one way or another...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 14, 2008 Each year during the Easter Vigil, which we will celebrate eight days from now, about 150,000 American adults enter the Church through the waters of baptism. Or at least they think they do. In...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 14, 2008 Because Holy Week is so important that it liturgically trumps every other feast, it’s led to some changes in the Church’s liturgical calendar this year. The solemnity of St. Joseph...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 7, 2008 The headlines in newspapers and on television news channels last Tuesday were quite alarming: “Catholic tradition fading in the U.S,” “Catholic Church Losing Grip on Faithful,” “One in ten...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 7, 2008 We are two weeks from Good Friday, when we are called to stand at the foot of the Cross and behold Christ’s excruciating pain and the love for us that made such enormous pain...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 29, 2008 In a highly provocative op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post, Joe Feuerherd asks whether his vote for Barack Obama in the Maryland Democratic primary may seal his damnation. A veteran...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 29, 2008 The Lord worked many miracles of healing in the Gospel. He did them as a response to faith and in order to buttress others’ faith in him, in his words, and in his saving deeds...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 22, 2008 “The art and the gallery’s decision to show it need no defense.” So declared a haughty Valentine’s Day editorial entitled, ‘X hits the spot,” in the New Bedford Standard Times. Despite its...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 22, 2008 Every other November, on Tuesday of the 33rd Week of Ordinary Time, daily Mass goers hear one of the most dramatic and inspiring passages of the entire Bible. It contains...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 15, 2008 After Pope Benedict last July authorized and facilitated far more liberal use of the 1962 Roman Missal for the celebration of Mass, some vocal Jewish leaders began to clamor for a change in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 15, 2008 We focused last week on the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the apparitions of Our Lady in Lourdes, France, which the Church celebrated on February 11. We considered the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 8, 2008 In his Lenten Message this year, Pope Benedict has written on the nature and the Christian imperative of almsgiving. “According to the Gospel,” he stressed, “almsgiving is not mere...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 8, 2008 As we begin the season of Lent, God gives us a special feast day on Monday to orient us. It is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the apparitions of our Lady to St...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 1, 2008 In a December interview with Time magazine, novelist Stephen King sought to persuade the magazine to name Lindsay Lohan or Brittney Spears its 2007 Person of the Year. The reporter, at first...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 1, 2008 Today is the end of Catholic Schools Week and our thoughts are naturally still with our young people, not just those who attend our parochial or diocesan schools, but the vastly...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 25, 2008 Over the course of his 80 years, Pope Benedict has justly earned the reputation as a theological genius and master pedagogue, but few would characterize him as particularly adept in public...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 25, 2008 As I began last Wednesday to pore through hundred of submissions for the annual Catholic Schools Week essay contest, it was easy to anticipate how many of the diocese’s top first...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 18, 2008 Today the Church begins the annual Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year’s eight days of joint prayer among Christians is particularly special because it marks the centenary of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 18, 2008 Every year, within the heart of the Octave of Prayer for Church Unity, we celebrate on January 24 the feast of St. Francis de Sales. This is most fitting, because I think more...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 11, 2008 Next week, the Church in the United States marks National Vocation Awareness Week. It is meant to be a period of intense prayer to the Lord of the harvest to send laborers to gather his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 11, 2008 The vast majority of priests and religious say that the nourishment of their divine vocations began at home. It was in the domestic Church that they first learned about God — who...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 9, 2009 During Advent, as the attention of the Christian world was meditating anew on how the Word of God had taken on our nature, was conceived as an embryo in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 28, 2007 This time at the end of one civil year and the beginning of another has always been a time for reflection and resolution. The ancient Romans used to turn at this time to the two-faced god...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 28, 2007 St. John, whose feast day the Church celebrated yesterday, is clearly one of the great figures of the history of Christianity. This “Son of Thunder” was one of the three singled...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 21, 2007 One of the principal goals of the Advent season is to prepare us to embrace the Lord when and as he comes. It is not enough for us merely to await the Messiah’s arrival; we must accept him...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 21, 2007 The most extensive Advent preparation of all was done, not by John the Baptist, not by Mary, not even by Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah, Zephaniah and the other famous Advent prophets...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 14, 2007 In his encyclical Spe Salvi, which we printed in last week’s edition, Pope Benedict wrote that for a Christian, the “good news” is not meant to be merely “informative” but “performative.” It...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 14, 2007 One of the most rewarding years of my life was spent in Toronto at St. Philip’s Seminary. Thanks to the strict discipline of the seminary, its academic rigor and a brutally long...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 7, 2007 On November 30, Pope Benedict published his second encyclical letter, Spe Salvi, which means “Saved in Hope.” He addressed the letter not just to a select few Catholics across the globe, but...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 7, 2007 God has always called unlikely candidates to great missions. Abraham was too old to be a dad and David and Jeremiah too young to be heroes. Moses and St. Paul both had speech...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 30, 2007 This Sunday we celebrated that Christ is king of the universe, a truth that Christians now recognize and everyone will acknowledge one day. This reality, however, has more than...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 30, 2007 The season of Advent that begins this weekend focuses on the great encounter each of us is called to have with the Lord. The Lord is coming — that’s what Advent literally means —...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 23, 2007 At their annual meeting last week in Baltimore, the bishops of the United States received the preliminary findings of an independent, in-depth study by the John Jay College of Criminal...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 23, 2007 The Solemnity of Christ the King, which is celebrate on Sunday, is a relatively young feast. Pope Pius XI instituted it in 1925 at the request of bishops and faithful from around...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 16, 2007 On November 2, Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey signed a bill forcing pharmacists in his state to fill prescriptions even if doing so violates their moral beliefs and contravenes their...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 16, 2007 On Tuesday, we celebrated the feast of the first American canonized saint. Born in 1850 near the Italian city of Lodi, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini had a hunger for holiness from...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 9, 2007 Many today in the Church are grappling with the consequences of a massive paradigm shift in the relationship between faith and society and between churches and government. In many parts of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 9, 2007 During the Jubilee Year of our Redemption in Rome during the year 2000, every time there was a morning event with Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square, St. Peter’s Basilica...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 2, 2007 The largest beatification in the history of the Church was held on Sunday in the Vatican, when 498 Spanish martyrs were raised to the altars. They were all killed in hatred of the Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 2, 2007 After every scandal in the history of the Church, God has raised up great saints to bring his Church back to holiness. These saints are the ones who show the true face of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 26, 2007 Last week, the state of Maine made national headlines when the Portland School Committee voted to make prescription contraceptives available to middle school students without parental...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 26, 2007 October 28 is the feast day of Saint Jude, commonly known and invoked as the patron saint of hopeless causes. He remains one of the most popular of saints, probably because...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 19, 2007 At the beginning of October in Connecticut, a new law went into effect that illustrates once again that “pro-choice” politicians and proponents will stop at nothing to force their immorality...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 19, 2007 This Sunday the Church celebrates World Missionary Sunday. When thinking about the missions, most of us think about far away lands, but the history of the first evangelization of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
SALT Meeting
October 14, 2007
“Kissing the Lord”
The What and the Why of Eucharistic Adoration
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 12, 2007 There is much being made, both inside and outside the Church, about President Bush’s October 3 veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP, pronounced S-Chip) and the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 12, 2007 Next Wednesday the Church celebrates the feast of one of the most heroic, influential and important saints of all time, St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was martyred in Rome in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 5, 2007 During his trip to Austria last month, Pope Benedict XVI made a visit to Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the ancient Cistercian monastery that for two centuries has also had a famous school of theology...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 5, 2007 The editorial on the left of this page focuses on Pope Benedict’s recent description of the inadequacy of a cold scientific study of God and the truths of the faith. God should...
Becoming a Real Man of God Father Roger Landry 2007 Father Roger Landry was asked by the Knights of Columbus to write this booklet for men. It is part of the Knights of Columbus’s Veritas Series “Proclaiming the Faith in the Third Millennium.” The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 28, 2007 Governor Deval Patrick’s September 17 announcement to seek to license three Resort Style Casinos in the Commonwealth, including one here in southeastern Massachusetts, is a unwise wager...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Duc in Altum September 28, 2007 On Monday the Church celebrates one of the most lovable, and paradoxical, of saints: a doctor of the Church who did not receive even a high school education; the co-patroness of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 21, 2007 Sports will either be a school of virtue or a school of vice, and that’s why the epidemic of cheating in professional sports is, and ought to be, a huge cultural concern. Sports, at every...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Duc in Altum September 21, 2007 Of all recent saints, the one who has inspired the most devotion is Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the 39th anniversary of whose birth into eternity the Church marks on September 23. One...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 14, 2007 Labor Day has passed and, as predicted, the political season has begun to heat up both locally and nationally. On the basis of recent elections in which faith-inspired and values-based...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor September 14, 2007 This Sunday, September 16, marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân, the heroic Archbishop of Saigon who for the Gospel spent 13...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Third Sunday in OT, Year C September 9, 2007 Wis 9:13-18; Philemon 9-10,12-17; Lk 14:25-33 1) In the first reading, the Book of Wisdom queries, “For who can learn the counsel of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 7, 2007 The recent frenzy about the significance of Blessed Mother Teresa’s dark night of the soul revealed far more than the inner workings of her interior life. It also revealed a profound bias in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor September 7, 2007 The impact that the saints in heaven are supposed to have on us still on the pilgrimage of life is concisely summarized in the Preface for Holy Men and Women which the priest...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 31, 2007 The most notorious violations of human rights often occur by those who purport to uphold human rights. The way they try to get away with these crimes is arbitrarily to classify the human...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 31, 2007 St. Peter’s conversion came when, at Jesus’ word and against all piscatorial wisdom about catching fish in shallow water during darkness, he cast his nets out into deep water...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 24, 2007 Last week, we focused on how the action or inaction of Catholic adults in our country over the next couple of years will likely greatly determine the path of American society for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 24, 2007 Even though God created marriage and family to be an earthly image of the loving communion of persons who is the Blessed Trinity, many families do not bear even the slightest...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 10, 2007 In every generation, Jesus has called on his disciples to transform society. He wants his followers to be the “light of the world” and communicate to those around them the truth about God and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 17, 2007 A prophetic summary of the heroic life and death of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, whose feast day we celebrated on Tuesday, happened when he was a young boy growing up near Lodz...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Nineteenth Sunday in OT, Year C August 12, 2007 Wis 18:6-9; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 12:32-48 1) Once in St. Luke’s Gospel, Jesus asked aloud the harrowing question, “When the Son of Man...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 10, 2007 Sin always brings with it the need for expiation. And expiation is never easy. The $660 million settlement the Archdiocese of Los Angeles made with 500 victims of clergy sexual abuse on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 10, 2007 Yesterday the Church celebrated the memorial of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a thoroughly modern saint with one of the most compelling personal stories of recent times. Born...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 3, 2007 On July 10, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a short “Response to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine of the Church.” As the news story on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 3, 2007 To put out into the deep is simply to go for it. That’s what Jesus was telling Peter when he told him to throw his nets out for a catch. That’s what Pope John Paul II was urging...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 13, 2007 Throughout the first two years of his pontificate, Benedict XVI has dedicated himself to implementing the authentic spirit of the Second Vatican Council in the life of the Church. He was a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 6, 2007 Last Thursday, Pope Benedict declared the Year of St. Paul. Two days later, he took a page from the evangelical method of the famous apostle of Tarsus. Just as St. Paul used to write letters to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 29, 2007 Last night, at the basilica built outside Rome’s ancient walls over the place where the Apostle to the Gentiles was buried, Pope Benedict declared and inaugurated a Year of St. Paul. Benedict...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Birth of St. John the Baptist June 24, 2007 (Vigil) Jer 1:4-10; 1Pt 1:8-12; Lk 1:5-17; (Day) Is 49:1-6; Acts 13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66 1) Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Birth of St...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 22, 2007 Today is the feast of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, two English martyrs who went to their death in 1535 in defense of the truth about marriage. Their example provides a fitting backdrop...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 15, 2007 In our modern political culture, spin-doctoring has become a valued skill if not a pseudo-virtue. On some occasions, spinning the truth involves nothing more than exclusively stressing the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 8, 2007 In his March apostolic exhortation, Pope Benedict referred to the Eucharist as the “sacrament of love,” and called Christians to believe in, celebrate and live this sacrament. The feast of the...
Faithful Catholics and the Defense of Marriage
Father Roger J. Landry
Legatus Meeting, Grand Rapids Michigan
June 5, 2007
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Faithful Catholics and the Defense of Marriage
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 1, 2007 Astride the accolades and joy that came from Pope Benedict’s recent apostolic pilgrimage to Brazil, there were two sets of controversies. The first came from some indigenous groups, who assailed...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 1, 2007 The second controversy — which raised eyebrows and ire in North America and Europe — was about economic systems and the political policies and culture that support them. After Benedict...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Homily of the Week for Trinity Sunday June 1, 2007 Today we celebrate the feast of who God is. Every Sunday is, in a very real sense, dedicated to God and therefore every Sunday really is Trinity Sunday. Since the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 25, 2007 One of Pope Benedict’s principal goals on his recent trip to Brazil was to help the bishops of Latin America examine and reverse a recent exodus of Catholics to Evangelical or Pentecostal...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 18, 2007 Prior to Benedict XVI’s arrival in Brazil, there was much speculation about how he would address some burning issues for the Church in Brazil and throughout Latin America. These are the issues...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 11, 2007 For more than two thousand years, beginning 400 years before Christ with Aristotle, munificence was listed among the virtues. Perhaps the greatest indication that the virtue of munificence has...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 4, 2007 It is almost unheard of that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, especially during times of pressing budgetary concerns, would turn down free money. Yet that is precisely what Governor Deval...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 27, 2007 On Monday of last week, our whole nation seemed to stop, utterly speechless and sickened by murderous rampage at Virginia Tech. The hearts of at least 26,000 sets of parents raced in agony, and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 20, 2007 Over the past few weeks, as Christians were focused on the events of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Governor Patrick’s attention was on other things. Right before Holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 20, 2007 On Monday, Pope Benedict celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth and baptism with the publication of a book on the love of his life. Entitled Jesus of Nazareth, the work, he writes...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 13, 2007 This week we celebrate with great joy the fiftieth anniversary of The Anchor. Since April 11, 1957, this newspaper has been a welcome weekly visitor to the homes of tens of thousands of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Getting People to the Confessional
Arnold Hall Seminar for Priests
April 10-12, 2007
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 6, 2007 The great task of the spiritual life, one saint of the early Church was accustomed to say, is to “un-forget.” Like the Jews in the desert, who were prone to forget both the great miracles by...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 30, 2007 After Pope Benedict published his exhortation “The Sacrament of Love” two weeks ago, one of the major newspapers within the Diocese wrote a provocative editorial focusing on one of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C March 25, 2007 Is 43:16-21; Philippians 3:8-12; Jn 8:1-11 1) Last week, Jesus preached to us the parable of the Prodigal Son, which stressed the Father’s undying love for his wayward child, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 23, 2007 Arguments against the resurrection of Jesus, like James Cameron tried to advance in his Discovery Channel pseudo-documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, are nothing new. They started, in fact...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Mass of Thanksgiving for the World Youth Alliance St. Vincent Ferrer Church, New York City March 23, 2007 Gen 1:26-31; Lk 1:46-55; James 1:17-26; Jn 4:34-38 1) Throughout history, God has chosen young people for great tasks. The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 16, 2007 After God had liberated the Jews from Pharoah’s clutches, he reminded them repeatedly, “Remember, O Israel, that you were once slaves in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Third Sunday of Lent, Year C March 11, 2007 Ex 3:1-8,13-15; 1Cor 10:1-6,10-12; Lk 13:1-9 1) Lent is the time for us to realize that we are dust and unto dust we shall return. It is the time to heed Jesus’ call to “turn away from...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Path to Sanctity: JP II and Young People Holy Trinity Apostolate Lenten Day St. Anastasia Parish, Troy, MI March 10, 2007 Pope John Paul II — “Encouraging Young People Toward Holiness.” To download a copy of the PDF for this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 9, 2007 It has become a recurring pattern that every Lent and Easter season, as Christians mark the most sacred moments of their faith, they receive a full frontal attack on their beliefs by publicity...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Second Sunday of Lent, Year C March 4, 2007 Gen 15:5-12,17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28-36 1) Every year on the second Sunday of Lent the Church gives us two great gifts in the readings. The first is the figure of Abraham...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 2, 2007 When the federal Department of the Interior on February 15 declared the 1,461 members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe worthy of federal recognition as a sovereign Indian nation, it reignited a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA First Sunday of Lent, Year C February 25, 2007 Dt 26:4-10;Rom 10:8-13;Lk 4:1-13 1) The episode in today’s Gospel is particularly special, because the only way the evangelists would...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 23, 2007 Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the publication of Donum Vitae, the Church’s highest level foray into modern bioethical issues at the beginning of life. Written by the Vatican’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C February 18, 2007 1Sam 26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23; 1Cor 15:45-59; Lk 6:27-38 1) Today Jesus continues the very clear and challenging homily he began...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 16, 2007 On Wednesdays, Catholics throughout our diocese will form lengthy lines to receive ashes on their foreheads along with an instruction. The instruction can take one of two forms, each of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year C February 11, 2007 Jer 17:5-8; 1Cor 15:12,16-20;Lk 6:17,20-26 1) There is a huge contrast in today’s readings. In the first reading, the prophet...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 9, 2007 This Sunday is World Marriage Day. This celebration began in 1981 in Baton Rouge, when married couples encouraged the mayor, governor and bishop to proclaim St. Valentine’s Day as “We Believe...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C February 4, 2007 Is 6:1-8; 1Cor 15:1-11; Lk 5:1-11 1) At the beginning of the third Christian millennium, Pope John Paul II wrote a beautiful...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 2, 2007 On Sunday, Jesuit Fr. Robert Drinan, one of the most scandalous figures in the history of U.S. Catholicism, died. He was 86. His obituaries focused on the fact that he was the first Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C January 28, 2007 Jer 1:4-5,17-19; 1Cor 12:31-13:13; Lk 4:21-30 1) Today we mark the beginning of Catholic Schools Week and we focus in a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 26, 2007 The celebration of Catholic Schools Week causes us to reflect on the blessing of a Catholic education and why it is worth the many sacrifices — from parents, teachers, parish communities, and...
The Certainty of the Teachings We Have Received, Third Sunday of Ordinary Time (C), January 21, 2007
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C January 21, 2007 Neh 8:2-4,5-6,8-10; 1Cor 12:12-30; Lk 1:1-4;4:14-21 1) In the passage we have just heard, St. Luke tells us very clearly why the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 19, 2007 Two weeks before Christmas, for ignominious reasons, New Bedford became the center of attention for most in the state and for many across the nation. At 2 o’clock in the morning on December...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Lecture to Boston Legatus Chapter January 18, 2007 Relevance of U.S. Bishops’ Document: “Happy Are Those Who Are Called To His Supper”: On Preparing to Receive Christ Worthily In The Eucharist” To download a copy of this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C January 14, 2007 Is 62:1-5; 1Cor 12:4-11; Jn 2:1-11 1) Last week we celebrated the epiphany or manifestation of the Lord to all the nations...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 12, 2007 Last week we marked the fifth anniversary of the revelation of the horrible, systematic sexual abuse of minors by Fr. John Geoghan. That started an avalanche of disclosures of abuse...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Epiphany, Year C January 7, 2007 Is 60:1-6; Eph 3:2-3,5-6; Mt 2:1-12 1) Today we celebrate the Lord’s Epiphany, the “manifestation” of his light, glory and presence to all the nations...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor January 5, 2007 On November 9th, after 109 legislators voted to recess the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention until January 2nd, supporters of same-sex marriage gloated that they had effectively killed...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Holy Family, Year C December 31, 2006 1 Sam 2:20-22,24-28; 1 John 3:1-2,21-24; Lk 2:41-52 1) We celebrate today the Feast of the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and the child Jesus. We...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Christmas 2006 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb1:1-6; Jn1:1-18...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 4th Sunday of Advent, C December 24, 2006 Mic 5:1-4; Heb 10:5-10; Lk 1:39-45 1) Each your, on the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Church has us focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary. The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor December 22, 2006 The whole season of Advent is a lesson in preparation. As we listen to the prophets, we mark the centuries of advance work God did to get the people of Israel ready to expect, recognize and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 3rd Sunday of Advent, C December 17, 2006 Zeph 3:14-18; Philippians 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 1) “What then should we do?” This was the question that was asked by the crowd in today’s Gospel...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor December 15, 2006 During the 2004 presidential election cycle, there was much debate over whether Catholic politicians who publicly promote intrinsic evils like abortion should be denied Holy Communion. While...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 2nd Sunday of Advent, C December 10, 2006 Bar 5:1-9; Phil 1:4-6,8-11; Lk 3:1-6 1) On the second Sunday of Advent each year, the Church leads us on pilgrimage to the Jordan River, so...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor December 8, 2006 In the history of the Church, no encyclical has been a greater sign of contradiction than Pope Paul VI’s 1968 Humanae Vitae, which taught that the use of contraception in marriage...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 1st Sunday of Advent, C December 3, 2006 Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25; 1Thes 3:12-4:2; Lk 21:25-28,34-36 1) Happy New Year! I say it again: Happy New Year! Sometimes Catholics find it a little...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor December 1, 2006 Last month at their November meetings, the U.S. bishops approved three teaching documents concerning, respectively, the pastoral care of those with a homosexual orientation, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Christ the King, Year B November 26, 2006 Dn 7:13-14; Rev1:5-8; Jn 18:33-37 1) Today we celebrate the culmination of the Church’s whole liturgical year. During the past 51 weeks, we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor November 24, 2006 There was much comment in both the secular and Catholic media about the items on the agenda for the U.S. Bishops’ Conference meeting last week in Baltimore. All noted a marked shift...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 33rd Sunday of OT, Year B November 19, 2006 Dan 12:1-3; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32 1) It is very common for the passages from Sacred Scripture that we have at Mass to begin, “at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor November 17, 2006 Playing politics is nothing new for politicians. We are all accustomed to how legislators, when they may not be able or want to defeat a bill on the open floor, seek to use the rules of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 32nd Sunday of OT, Year B November 12, 2006 1Kings 17:10-16; Heb 9:24-28; Mk 12:38-44 1) In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus told us clearly what the first and greatest commandment is, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor November 10, 2006 The beginning of November is a time when Americans are accustomed to focus on elections and the various issues that drive them, the economy, the direction of the country, safety and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B November 5, 2006 Deut 6:2-6; Heb 7:23-28; Mk 12:28-34 1) Building on what he revealed to the Israelites through Moses (first reading)...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor November 3, 2006 The talking point interrogatives have begun to reappear as we near the November 9th Constitutional Convention and our legislators prepare to vote on whether to give first approval to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 30th Sunday of OT, Year B October 29, 2006 Jer 31:7-9; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 1) “What do you want me to do for you?” Which one of us would not want the Lord to ask us the question he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor October 27, 2006 In last week’s editorial on voting guides, the question was raised about the responsibilities of a faithful Catholic with respect to candidates who support the evil of abortion. Brief...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 29th Sunday of OT, Year B October 22, 2006 Is 53:10-11; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45 1) There is a huge contrast in today’s Gospel between two types of greatness and two types of ambition...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor October 20, 2006 It is an indisputably positive development that Catholics in general are rediscovering that faith and life go together and that our relationship with God and our desire to please him...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 28th Sunday of OT, Year B October 15, 2006 Wis 7:7-11; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30 1) As a young king of the Lord’s people, Solomon pleased the Lord very much. One night God appeared to...
“Church and Evolution”
Fr. Roger J. Landry
October 13, 2006
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Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor October 13, 2006 When Cardinal Sean O’Malley went to Rome a couple of weeks ago to take possession of his titular Church, the munificent 150-seat Santa Maria della Vittoria, little did he realize that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church 27th Sunday of OT, Year B October 8, 2006 Gen 2:18-24; Heb 2:9-11; Mk10:2-16 1) At the beginning of time, God created the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon, the oceans and the mountains, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor October 6, 2006 When told that Pope Pius XII opposed his policies, Joseph Stalin derisively responded, “How many battalions does the Pope have?” To someone convinced that might makes right, that the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA 26th Sunday of OT, Year B October 1, 2006 Numbers 11:25-29; James 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43,45,47-48 1) We encounter in today’s Gospel a big contrast and a big surprise. The contrast is...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor September 29, 2006 As he concluded his apostolic pilgrimage to Germany, Pope Benedict XVI gave one last gift to the crowds who had assembled at the Munich airport to wish him auf wiedersehen and those...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor September 22, 2006 In the midst of his very fruitful apostolic pilgrimage to his native Bavaria, Pope Benedict stopped at the University of Regensburg, where as a young professor he became famous for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B September 17, 2006 Is 50:5-9; James 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus asks us the same question he asked his first followers...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor September 15, 2006 The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, in their Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, wrote that “all citizens are to bear in mind that it is both their right...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 23rd Sunday of OT, Year B September 10, 2006 Is 35:4-7; James 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 1) In today’s Gospel we glimpse the awe of those who witnessed Jesus’ miracles and works live. Jesus, in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor September 8, 2006 The most fitting way to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is to act on the lessons that infamous day has taught us. The first lesson is that evil...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 22nd Sunday of OT, Year B September 3, 2006 Deut 4:1-2,6-8; James 1:17-18; 21-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 1) Saint James challenges every one of us here in this Church today in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor September 1, 2006 The August 24 decision of the Food and Drug Administration to allow women over 18 to have access to the Plan B morning after pills without a prescription has left Catholic and pro-life...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 21st Sunday of OT, Year B August 27, 2006 Jos 24:1-2,15-18; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69 1) Today’s readings could not be possibly more dramatic — or more relevant for us. They bring us...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor August 25, 2006 In the early days of the Church, there was great solidarity and mutual loving sacrifice. Christians looked upon themselves as they really were — brothers and sisters — and whenever any...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA 20th Sunday in OT, Year B August 20, 2006 Prov9:1-6; Eph5:15-20; Jn 6:51-58 1) Two-thousand years ago the disciples frequently used to ask Jesus what heaven was like and Jesus would...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor August 18, 2006 August 16, 2005 was supposed to be Al Qaeda’s bloody sequel to September 11, 2001. Thanks be to God, and to the vigilance and hard work of anti-terrorist units in several countries...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA 19th Sunday of OT, Year B August 13, 2006 1Kings 19:4-8; Eph 4:30-5:2; Jn 6:41-51 1) Today we enter together into the third week of Jesus’ five-week course on the mystery of his body...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Editorial The Anchor August 11, 2006 Sometime those in the pro-life movement wish that they could go back in time and re-fight some of the key battles in the history of the culture war. They long to go back before the time...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Transfiguration of the Lord, Year B August 6, 2006 Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; 2Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10 1) On the sixth of August each year, the Church, both east and west, celebrates with joy the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
End of Life Issues
SSSC 2006 Annual Course
Murray Hill
July 31, 2006
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End of Life Issues MH
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA 17th Sunday of OT, Year B July 23, 2006 2Kings4:42-44; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 1) We have been focusing all year on the Gospel of St. Mark. If we continued in this progression, we would...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA 16th Sunday of OT, Year B July 23, 2006 Jer 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 1) The Lord says through the prophet Jeremiah in today’s first reading that the Lord will not allow bad...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 21, 2006 There was justifiable outrage last week when Massachusetts legislators, by a vote of 100-91, pusillanimously adjourned the Constitutional Convention. The original vote on the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 21, 2006 On July 11th, Pope Benedict acceded to Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ “oft-expressed readiness” to retire from the position of the director of the Holy See Press Office and de facto...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA 15th Sunday of OT, Year B July 16, 2006 Am 7:12-15; Eph 1:3-14; Mk 6:7-13 1) Jesus’ love for us was so great that not only did he want to save us, but he wanted to involve us in our...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 14, 2006 As Pope Benedict was flying from Rome to Valencia for last weekend’s World Meeting of Families, reporters on the papal plane asked him for a preview of what he would say. They...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B July 9, 2006 Ezek 2:2-5; 2Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6 1) In today’s Gospel, there’s a scene that should bring those who truly love Jesus almost to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 7, 2006 Acting on last week’s editorial on the Protection of Marriage Amendment, one subscriber emailed his state representative. In a succinct and straightforward manner, he stated:...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor June 30, 2006 On Tuesday, the citizens of our nation will focus yet again on the bravery and principles that led to the Declaration of Independence and the birth of our nation. Fifty-six...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B June 25, 2006 Job 38:1,8-11; 2Cor 5:14-17; Mk 4:35-41 1) Today’s Gospel about Jesus’ calming of the winds and the seas is much more than a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor June 23, 2006 Many Catholics were startled last week when they learned, mainly through secular news outlets, that the U.S. Bishops had voted to change the prayers of the Mass. Provocative...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Corpus Christi, Year B June 18, 2006 Exod 24:3-8; Heb 9:11-15; Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 1) Today we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi. Our ancestors who built this beautiful parish...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor June 16, 2006 On June 7, 49 U.S. Senators voted in favor of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect marriage as a heterosexual institution. 48 Senators opposed it. The procedural...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Trinity Sunday, Year B June 11, 2006 Deut 4:32-34,39-40; Rom 8:14-17; Mt 28:16-20 1) Last week we celebrated the feast of Pentecost, when the apostles and disciples were strengthened...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor June 9, 2006 Normally editorials are dedicated to commenting on some recent or upcoming news event. This week it is regrettably devoted to the lack of one. The first or second Saturday in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Pentecost Sunday June 4, 2006 Acts 2:1-11; 1Cor12:3-7,12-13; Rom 8:8-17; Jn 20:19-23; Jn 14:15-16,23-26 1) 53 days ago, the apostles were all gathered together in the Upper Room. Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor June 2, 2006 Last weekend Pope Benedict embarked on the first foreign pilgrimage of his own design. As he stated in his inaugural talk at Warsaw’s airport, he went to Poland in order to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year B May 28, 2006 Acts 1:15-17,20-26; 1John4:11-16; Jn 17:11-19 1) We are now within the novena between the Lord’s Ascension and Pentecost Sunday. On...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor May 26, 2006 The sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy is simply one of the most painful things with which most in the Church have ever had to deal. Words are not adequate to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Ascension Thursday, Year B May 25, 2006 Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mk 16:15-20 1) On the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, we celebrate in a special way three things: a) The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B May 21, 2006 Acts 10:25-26,34-35,44-48; 1 Jn 4:7-10; Jn 15:9-17 1) Saint Jerome, one of the great fathers of the Church, tells us that while Saint John...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor May 19, 2006 Faithful Catholics have been asking how they should respond to today’s release of The Da Vinci Code movie. Should they heed calls from a senior Vatican archbishop to boycott...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor May 12, 2006 In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that the Church was about to revise her teaching on the immorality of condoms in order to prevent the transmission of HIV and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year B May 7, 2006 Acts 4:8-12; 1John3:1-2; John10:11-18 1) In today’s Gospel, Christ tells us clearly who he is and how important we are to him. “I am the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor May 5, 2006 Jesus told us in St. Matthew’s Gospel that when he comes at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, he will separate us into two groups. On his right, he will place...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor April 28, 2006 Ten days ago, the largest and most famous Church in the world celebrated the 500th anniversary of the inauguration of its reconstruction. The original St. Peter’s Basilica in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Divine Mercy Sunday April 23, 2006 Acts 2:42-47; 1Pet1:3-9; Jn 20:1-9 1) We celebrated last week the most important event in the history of the world, the most crucial event in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor April 21, 2006 In a March column in The Boston Globe, provocatively entitled “Should Liberals Leave the Catholic Church?,” Joan Vennochi candidly vented her frustration that Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor April 14, 2006 This afternoon, at the beginning of the recitation of the Passion according to St. John, Catholics will hear of the treachery of the most famous traitor of all time, Judas...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor April 7, 2006 As Catholics throughout the world convene on Sunday in Church to enter into the passion of the King of Kings, dressed in a scarlet cloak with a reed in his hands, others will...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor March 31, 2006 During the past six weeks, as faithful Catholics and the Church hierarchy have been describing the moral issues involved in the adoption of children by same-sex couples, a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor March 24, 2006 The eyes of the Church universal and much of our region are justly on Rome today, where Pope Benedict XVI will create fifteen new cardinals. In addition to the particular...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, Massachusetts Third Sunday of Lent, Year B March 19, 2006 Ex 20:1-17; 1Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25 1) In today’s Gospel, we encounter a Jesus with whom many of us, especially today, are...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor March 17, 2006 Two weeks ago, 55 Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives released a “Statement of Principles,” describing what their collective goals are on Capitol Hill. They...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor March 10, 2006 There’s a dramatic scene in the Acts of the Apostles when the twelve, after having been miraculously freed from the public prison, are brought back before the Sanhedrin. There they...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor March 3, 2006 There was palpable joy and hometown pride throughout our diocese last week when Pope Benedict named Archbishop Sean O’Malley a cardinal. For a decade, we were blessed by his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor February 24, 2006 One of the least commented upon sections of Pope Benedict’s first encyclical on God’s love deals with the Church and politics. In an era in which the Church in various...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor February 17, 2006 In his encyclical Deus Caritas Est, after describing who God is and who we are, Pope Benedict turns to what the Church is. The Church, he says, is “God family in the world...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B February 12, 2006 Lev 13:1-2,44-46; 1Cor10:31-11:1; Mk 1:40-45 1) In one short sentence at the end of today’s second reading, St. Paul gives us a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor February 10, 2006 In his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI takes us to the “heart of the Christian faith” and presents us with a “summary of the Christian life.” He described who God is, who...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B February 4-5, 2006 Job 7:1-4,6-7; 1Cor 9:16-19,22-23; Mk 1:29-39 1) In today’s readings, we encounter a lot of suffering. In the first reading...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor February 3, 2006 Most of us, when we receive a letter, normally open and read it. When the letter is from a close family member, we generally consume it faster. And most of us do not seem...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B January 29, 2006 Deut 18:15-20; 1Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28 1) In today’s Gospel, we see that on the Sabbath day, Jesus entered the synagogue and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor January 27, 2006 Pope Benedict has followed Pope John Paul II in insistently heralding the urgency of a new proclamation of the Gospel to our own age. The Church is fundamentally...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B January 22, 2006 Jonah 3:1-5,10; 1Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20 1) God raises up prophets for every age. He raised up Jonah to convert Ninevah. He...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor January 20, 2006 In a powerful January 9 address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI argued that the way to peace can only happen through a joint...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B January 15, 2006 1Sam 3:3-10,19; 1Cor 6:13-15,17-20; Jn 1:35-42 1) In today’s Gospel, we see the drama that happened in the life of Andrew of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor January 13, 2006 As we prepare for the Week of Christian Unity that runs from January 18-25, Christians in our commonwealth are confronting an issue on which they are clearly united. It’s a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford Epiphany 2006 January 8, 2006 Is 60:1-6; Eph3:2-3,5-6; Mt2:1-12 1) We have heard the story of the Epiphany — the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles represented by the wise men — so...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor January 6, 2006 Five days before the celebration of the birth of Jesus, most Americans got a Christmas present and the American Civil Liberties Union a long overdue lump of coal. These...
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God January 1, 2006 Num 6:22-27; Gal4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 1) In 1929, just 17 days short of his 9th birthday, the young Karol Wojtyla — the future Pope John...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Christmas 2005 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb1:1-6; Jn1:1-18...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 23, 2005 In 1223, St. Francis of Assisi inaugurated a pious practice that in places today has become so common that many think that it always existed. This great saint, as he was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 16, 2005 Historians of the abortion debate in our country have long noted how abortion advocates have manipulated the extreme cases of rape, incest and life-endangering...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church 3rd Sunday of Advent, B December 11, 2005 Zeph 3:14-18; Philippians 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 1) We call this third Sunday of Advent “Gaudete Sunday” because every year on it the Church has us reflect upon...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 9, 2005 The Church has long had a written policy against the ordination to the priesthood of men with homosexual tendencies. Over the course of the last few decades...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday in Advent, Year B December 4, 2005 Is 40:1-5, 9-11; 2 Pet 3:8-14; Mk 1:1-8 1) On the second Sunday of Advent each year, the Church leads us on pilgrimage to the Jordan...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 2, 2005 Catholics are long accustomed to having Isaiah and John the Baptist prepare them, during the first two weeks of Advent, for the coming of the Lord. Theirs are the voices...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford First Sunday of Advent, Year A November 27, 2005 Is 2:1-5; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 1) Happy New Year’s Day! Today the Church, indeed, inaugurates a new year dedicated to our reliving in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 25 2005 When the pilgrims lowered the anchor in Plymouth harbor in December 1620, they were filled with hope. They had survived a perilous three-month journey on an inhospitable...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Christ the King, Year A November 20, 2005 Ezek 34:11-12, 15-17; 1Cor 15:20-26,28; Mt 25:31-46 1) Today the Church celebrates with great joy the Solemnity of Christ the King. It is the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 18, 2005 Proposition 11 of the recently concluded Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist requested that “the reasons for the relationship between celibacy and priestly ordination be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A November 13, 2005 Prov 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; 1Thess5:1-6; Mt 25:14-30 1) Every November, the Church has us focus our attention on the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 11, 2005 The recently concluded Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist proposed to Pope Benedict that the Church must do a better job explaining the “relationship between celibacy and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A November 6, 2006 Wis 6:12-16; 1Thess4:13-18; Mt 25:1-13 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus uses an image that perhaps to us might seem a little...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 4, 2005 Among the many issues debated and discussed during the recent Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, the topic of priestly celibacy was perhaps the most closely followed...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 30, 2005 Mal 1:14-2:2,8-10; 1Thess2:7-9,13; Mt 23:1-12 1) In today’s Gospel, with very strong language, Jesus makes clear that we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 28, 2005 In his first trip outside the Vatican this past May, Pope Benedict visited Bari to celebrate with 300,000 Italian Catholics the feast of Corpus Christi. In his homily...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 23, 2005 Ex 22:20-26; 1Thess 1:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 1) In responding to the question of the lawyer in today’s Gospel — “what is the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 21, 2005 This December we mark the 40th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. We begin this week in the Anchor a series of articles meant not only to bring to life...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 16, 2005 Is 45:1,4-6; 1Thess1:1-5; Mt 22:15-21 1) In today’s Gospel, two groups that were archenemies conspired to try to trap Jesus. Both the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 14, 2005 During the height of the clergy sex abuse revelations in 2002, when Pope John Paul II summoned the Cardinals of the United States to Rome, they asked him to appoint a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 9, 2005 Is 25:6-10; Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20; Mt 22:1-14 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus speaks to us about the joy of heaven, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 7, 2005 Forty years ago, as the Second Vatican Council was coming to a close, Pope Paul VI established the Synod of Bishops as a regular organ for the successors of the apostles to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 2, 2005 Is 5:1-7; Philippians 4:6-9; Mt 21:33-43 1) What Jesus says in today’s Gospel parable has both a very important...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 30, 2005 Earlier this week in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a federal district judge began hearing arguments in a highly watched case pitting a legion of lawyers from the American...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 25, 2005 Ezek 18:25-28; Phil 2:1-11; Mt 21:28-32 1) In last Sunday’s first reading, God said to us through the prophet Isaiah...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 23, 2005 Last week’s Senate confirmation hearings for President Bush’s nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court were not really about John Roberts and his rather obvious...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 18, 2005 Is 55:6-9; Phil 1:20-24, 27; Mt 20:1-16 1) Through the mouth of the prophet Isaiah, the Lord tells us in today’s first...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 16, 2005 Those who are faithful to Jesus Christ are now being called by the successors of his apostles in the state of Massachusetts to rise up in defense of the institution of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 16, 2005 Those who are faithful to Jesus Christ are now being called by the successors of his apostles in the state of Massachusetts to rise up in defense of the institution of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 11, 2005 Sir 27:30-28:7; Rom 14:7-9; Mt 18:21-35 1) If someone hurts us, we think it’s magnanimous and generous when we give...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 9, 2005 The response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th — the fourth anniversary of which we mark this weekend — has provided the standard by which we are able to evaluate...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 4, 2005 Ezek 33:7-9; Rom 13:8-10; Mt 18:15-20 1) “Where two or three are gathered in my name,” Jesus says to us in today’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 2, 2005 When Christians think of the saving work of Jesus, many focus on the triduum during which he was crucified, died and rose again. Others concentrate on the three years of his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 28, 2005 Jer 20:7-9; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27 1) There’s a dramatic turnaround from last week’s Gospel. As we saw seven days ago...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 26, 2005 When Jesus returned to Nazareth and preached the Gospel in the synagogue that Scripture was fulfilled in their hearing, those of his native place rose up and tried to throw him off...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 21, 2005 Is 22:15, 19-23; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20 1) “O how deep are the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!” So...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 19, 2005 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said in the Gospel, “unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 18:3). That’s one of the reasons...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 14, 2005 Is 56:1,6-7; Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Mt 15:21-28 1) In order to grasp the meaning of today’s readings, we first need to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 12, 2005 In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II called contraception and abortion “fruits of the same tree.” The roots of that tree are found in a mentality, he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 7, 2005 1Kings 19:9,11-13; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 1) We learn three lessons from today’s Gospel: a. When we keep our eyes on Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 5, 2005 To believe in Jesus Christ as the Son-of-God-made-man means, minimally, to trust in what Jesus said and did. It is not possible for a true disciple to think that Jesus could have...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 31, 2005 Is 55:1-3; Rom 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches very clearly about what he expects from us and how...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 17, 2005 Wis 12:13,16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 1) With a hat-trick of different images in today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches us three very...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 15, 2005 On the international calendar, 7/7 has now been added to 9/11 and 3/11 as days of unforgettable infamy. The four London bombs that have left 52 people dead and scores more wounded...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 10, 2005 Is 55:10-11; Rom 8: 18-23; Mt 13:1-23 1) By the parable of the sower and the seed in today’s Gospel, Jesus describes four types...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 8, 2005 Right at the beginning of the extended weekend on which Americans were celebrating the 229th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 2, 2005 Zech 9:9-10; Rom 8:9, 11-13; Mt 11:25-30 1) In coming to Mass today, you probably did not anticipate that you were about to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor July 1, 2005 When I began this column seven months ago, I took as its theme Jesus’ words to St. Peter, “Put out into the deep and lower your nets for a catch” (Lk 5:4). This was the imperative...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 26, 2005 2Kings 4:8-11,14-16; Rom 6:3-4,8-11; Mt 10:37-42 1) In today’s second reading, St. Paul describes the incredible reality of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 24, 2005 “Among those born of women, no one is greater than John the Baptist” (Lk 7:28 ). Truth incarnate once paid that supreme compliment, which is why the Church founded by Him...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 19, 2005 Jer 20:10-13; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33 1) There’s a paradox in today’s Gospel. On the one hand, Jesus tells us not to be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 17, 2005 Pope Benedict has picked up right where his predecessor left off. Pope John Paul II spent most of his priesthood, and all of his pontificate, trying to strengthen the Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 12, 2005 Ex 19:2-6; Rom 5:6-11; Mt 9:36-10:8 1) Today’s readings focus on two essential and related elements: ELECTION by God of group of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 10, 2005 It was similar to when the Red Sox won the World Series. A huge crowd. Jubilation and standing ovations. Lots of kids in uniforms jubilantly giving each other high fives. Grown men...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 5, 2005 Hos 6:3-6; Rom 4:18-25; Mt 9:9-13 1) There’s an amazing encounter in today’s Gospel between God and a notorious sinner. In it...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 3, 2005 Because of the Incarnation, every part of Jesus’ body is sacred. We have never celebrated the feast of the Lord’s sacred brain, however, even though through it the Word...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Corpus Christi, Year A May 29, 2005 Deut 8:2-3, 14-16; 1Cor10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58 1) On this Solemnity of Corpus Christi one year ago, Pope John Paul II declared that the Church would...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor May 27, 2005 Since 1868, Americans have come together at the end of May to remember and honor those who have given their lives to protect and defend us, who have paid the supreme sacrifice so that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Trinity Sunday, Year A May 22, 2005 Ex 34:4-6, 8-9; 2 Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18 1) Today we celebrate the feast of who God is. Every Sunday is, in a very real sense, dedicated to God and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 20, 2005 One month ago today, on the day after his election as the successor of St. Peter, Pope Benedict XVI re-assembled the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, celebrated together with them the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Pentecost Sunday May 15, 2005 Acts 2:1-11; 1Cor12:3-7,12-13; Rom 8:8-17; Jn 20:19-23; Jn 14:15-16,23-26 1) 53 days ago, the apostles were all gathered together in the Upper Room. Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 13, 2005 From the time I was a boy, I have always been fascinated by the feast of Pentecost. When I was in grammar school, the wonder had to do with the fact that Pentecost is the “birthday of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A May 8, 2005 Acts 1:12-14; 1Pet 4:13-16; Jn 17:1-11 1) After the Ascension, as we read in the first reading, the apostles all gathered around Mary and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 6, 2005 Prior to the papal conclave, I was asked hundreds of times by parishioners, friends, guys at the health club, and reporters, who I thought the next Pope would be. My staple response —...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Ascension, Year A May 5, 2005 Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20 1) We read at the beginning of today’s Gospel that, when the eleven disciples — meaning APOSTLES — went to Galilee and saw...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A May 1, 2005 Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; 1Pet 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 1) Ten years ago this October, our great deceased Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, addressed the United...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 29, 2005 “Dear Brothers and Sisters, after the great John Paul II, the Cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord’s vineyard.” These were the first words of our new Holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A April 24, 2005 Acts 6:1-7; 1Pet2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 1) Early this morning the eyes of the world were all fixed on St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican where the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 22, 2005 Almost two years before the Cardinal electors assembled in the Sistine Chapel to discern, with God’s help, the one to whom they should pass the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A April 17, 2005 Acts 2:14, 36-41; 1Pet2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 1) The Fourth Sunday of Easter each year is called Good Shepherd Sunday, because on this day the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 15, 2005 On Monday, 115 Cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel and begin their work of discerning, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the one God the Father will reveal as the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday of Easter, Year A April 10, 2005 Acts 2:14,22-28; 1Pet 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35 1) Two days ago, we witnessed the largest funeral in human history. Four million people attended. Up...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor Special Edition Upon the Death of Pope John Paul II April 9, 2005 If there were ever any doubt, Pope John Paul II’s funeral was evidence of how extraordinarily important a figure he was within the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 8, 2005 On the walls to the right and left of the tabernacle in Pope John Paul II’s private chapel in the Vatican, there are large basrelief sculptures of the deaths of Saints Peter and Paul...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 1, 2005 Catholics can easily recall when Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist. He did it during the first Mass, which began during the Last Supper with the words of consecration...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Easter Sunday March 27, 2005 Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 1) Today we mark, with Christians throughout the world, the greatest day and most important event in all of history...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 25, 2005 No greater homily has ever been given than the one Jesus preaches today, nailed to his perpendicular pulpit. It consists of a mere seven sentences, spread over the span of three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Good Friday March 25, 2005 Is 52:13-53:12; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 1) On the Cross today, Jesus shouted the dramatic words, “It is finished!” The question is: What does this “it”...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Palm Sunday, Year A March 20, 2005 Mt 21:1-11; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14-27:66 1) This Palm Sunday Liturgy is framed by two expressions. The first is “Hosanna,” which was shouted at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 18, 2005 Next week we mark the tenth anniversary of the papal encyclical Evangelium Vitae, which may be the most important and prophetic document of John Paul II’s pontificate. Perhaps more...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A March 13, 2005 Ezek 37:12-14; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 1) The episode of Jesus’ raising Lazarus from the dead is so rich that whole retreats could be preached upon...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 11, 2005 Last month the last of the three Fatima visionaries, Sr. Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Sacred Heart, better known by her baptismal name, Lucia dos Santos, died at age 97. As long as...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A March 6, 2005 1Sam 16:1,6-7,10-13; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 1) In this dramatic scene from today’s Gospel, Jesus does something different than he did in other four...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 4, 2005 Each year of his pontificate, the Holy Father has written a Lenten message to guide and inspire Catholics throughout the world better to understand and live the meaning of this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday of Lent, Year A February 27, 2005 Ex 17:3-7; Rom 5:1-2,5-8; Jn 4:5-42 1) Jesus, the Good Shepherd, promised that he would leave all of his other sheep behind and go in search of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor February 25, 2005 Last March, I saw one of the real signs of the “new springtime” in the Church to which Pope John Paul II frequently refers. It was the annual Catholic Men’s Conference for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Second Sunday of Lent, Year A February 20, 2005 Gen 12:1-4; 2Tim1:8-10; Mt 17:1-9 1) Today the Lord takes Peter, James and John up Mt. Tabor and all of us in the Church go with them. There...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 18, 2005 Scripture scholars often describe the four Gospels as “passion accounts with very long introductions.” This is because the preaching of the apostles — and the earliest Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA First Sunday of Lent, Year A February 13, 2005 Gen 2:7-9, 3:1-7; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11 1) At the end of today’s second reading, St. Paul summarizes the principle message of all three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 11, 2005 Lent is a forty day uphill pilgrimage with Jesus. Jesus starts by taking us, on the first Sunday, to a desert mountain where he teaches us by example how to say no to the devil’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Ash Wednesday February 9, 2005 Joel 2:12-18; 2Cor5:20-6:2; Mt6:1-6,16-18 1) Each of you in a few minutes will come up to receive ashes on your forehead and an instruction. That instruction...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A February 6, 2005 Is 58:7-10; 1Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 1) Over the past two weeks, as we’ve gotten ready for tonight’s Super Bowl, there has been a lot of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 4, 2005 “What would become of the world if there were no religious?” That’s the question St. Teresa of Avila asked aloud in her 16th century autobiography. It’s also the question Pope...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A January 30, 2005 Zeph 2:3,3:12-13; 1Cor1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12 1) The greatest homily Jesus ever preached was when he mounted the pulpit of the Cross and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 28, 2005 The celebration of Catholic Schools Week causes us to reflect on the blessing of a Catholic education and why it is worth the many sacrifices — from parents, teachers, parish...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A January 23, 2005 Is 8:23-9:3; 1Cor 1:10-13, 17; Mt 4:12-23 1) We are now within the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which occurs every year between...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 21, 2005 Thirteen years ago I went to jail for the first time, to interview a pro-life hero for a magazine I had helped to found in college. Bill Cotter had been sentenced to two-and-a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A January 16, 2005 Is 49:3,5-6; 1Cor 1:1-3; Jn 1:29-34 1) There’s a truly remarkable phrase in today’s Gospel, that occurs not once but twice. Sometimes...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 14, 2005 Right before Christmas, as he met with his chief collaborators in the Roman Curia, Pope John Paul II made a statement that caught many in the media — and in the Church — off-guard...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Baptism of the Lord, Year A January 8-9, 2005 Is 42:1-4, 6-7; Acts 10:34-38; Mt 3:13-17 1) Last Sunday, we celebrated the Lord’s epiphany as light to all nations, represented by the wise...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 7, 2005 After John the Baptist had pointed out Jesus as the Lamb of God, St. Andrew and a friend ran after Jesus and spent the rest of the afternoon with him. Then Andrew went to find his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Epiphany of the Lord January 2, 2005 Is 60:1-6; Eph3:2-3,5-6; Mt2:1-12 1) We celebrate today the Lord’s “Epiphany,” the Greek word for his “manifestation” to all the nations. In today’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Holy Family, Year A December 26, 2004 Sir 3:2-6,12-14; Col 3:12-21; Mt 2:13-15,19-23 1) The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has been losing his voice trying to get the Church and society to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Christmas 2004 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb1:1-6; Jn1:1-18 1) In...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 24, 2004 It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth, the night when “he appeared and the soul felt its worth.” Those words from “O Holy Night,” like the lyrics from most treasured...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A December 19, 2004 Is 7:10-14; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 1) The celebration of Christmas is less than a week away, and the Church, on this fourth Sunday of Advent...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 17, 2004 Last week we marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, easily the most famous and perhaps the most influential American Catholic priest of the 20th...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 10, 2004 Two days ago, the Church celebrated a monumental 150th anniversary and two even more important realities. On December 8, 1854, Blessed Pope Pius IX solemnly proclaimed as a dogma...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Second Sunday of Advent, Year A December 5, 2004 Is 11:1-10; Rom 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 1) On the second Sunday of Advent each year, the Church leads us on pilgrimage to the Jordan River, so that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 3, 2004 With the first Sunday of Advent, the Church begins a new liturgical year and the Anchor, not missing a beat, inaugurates a new column. I’m grateful to Monsignor Moore for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA First Sunday of Advent, Year A November 28, 2004 Is 2:1-5; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 1) Happy New Year’s Day! Today the Church, indeed, inaugurates a new year dedicated to our reliving in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Christ the King, Year C November 21, 2004 2Sam5:1-13; Col1:12-20; Lk 23:35-43 1) This solemnity we celebrate today is the culmination of the Church’s entire liturgical year. Everything that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Thirty-Third Sunday in OT, Year C November 14, 2004 Mal 3:19-20; 2Thes3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19 1) “Can it get any worse, Father?” That was the exasperated question posed to me by a frustrated...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Thirty-Second Sunday in OT, Year C November 7, 2004 2Macc 7:1-2,9-14; 2Thes2:16-3:5; Lk 20:27-38 1) Every November, the Church has us focus on the four last things — death, judgment, heaven...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Thirty-First Sunday in OT, Year C October 31, 2004 Wis 11:22-12:2; 2Thes 1:11-2:2; Lk 19:1-10 1) Last week Jesus presented us the parable contrasting the prayer of the Pharisee and the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Thirtieth Sunday in OT, Year C October 24, 2004 Sir 35:12-14,16-18; 2Tim4:6-8,16-18; Lk 18:9-14 1) Toward the end of his second letter to his spiritual son, Timothy (today’s second reading)...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twenty-Ninth Sunday in OT, Year C October 17, 2004 Ex 17:8-13; 2Tim3:14-4:2; Lk 18:1-8 1) Jesus’ final words in today’s Gospel almost seem out of place. After teaching his disciples a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twenty-Seventh Sunday in OT, Year C October 3, 2004 Hab 1:2-3;2:2-4; 2Tim1:6-8,13-14; Lk 17:5-10 1) In the Gospel today, the apostles did not ask the Lord for money. They didn’t ask him for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twenty-Fifth Sunday in OT, C, Prep September 19, 2004 Amos 8:4-7; 1Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 1) This Sunday’s Gospel contains what is probably the most confusing parable in any part of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twenty-Fourth Sunday in OT, Year C September 12, 2004 Ex 32:7-11,13-14; 1Tim1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 1) The most distinctive thing we can say about God’s love is that it is co-extensive with...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Sacred Heart Retreat House, Alhambra, California Labor Day, September 6, 2004 1 Cor 5:1-8; Lk 6:6-11 1) In today’s Gospel, there is a huge eruption between Jesus and the scribes and Pharisees over the meaning of the Sabbath. •...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House, Alhambra, California “Living Mary’s Mystery in Christ” September 3-5, 2004 Twenty-Third Sunday in OT, Year C Wis 9:13-18; Philemon 9-10,12-17; Lk 14:25-33 1) In the first reading, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twenty-Second Sunday in OT, Year C August 29, 2004 Sir 3:17-18,20,28-29; Heb 12:18-19, 22-24; Lk 14:1,7-14 1) In the parable in today’s Gospel, Jesus is doing far more than giving his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis, MA Twenty-first Sunday in OT, Year C August 22, 2004 Is 66:18-21; Heb 12:5-7, 11-13; Lk 13:22-30 1) Last Sunday we celebrated the solemnity of Mary’s Assumption, body and soul, into heaven. The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis Solemnity of the Assumption 2004 August 15, 2004 Rev 11:19,12:1-6,10; 1Cor15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 1) With the whole Church, today we celebrate the great solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Nineteenth Sunday in OT, Year C August 8, 2004 Wis 18:6-9; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 12:32-48 1) Once in St. Luke’s Gospel, Jesus asked aloud the harrowing question, “When the Son of Man comes...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Seventeenth Sunday in OT, Year C July 25, 2004 Gen 18:20-32; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13 1) There’s a startling aspect to the request Jesus’ disciple in the Gospel, “Lord, teach us to pray.” On...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Sixteenth Sunday in OT, Year C July 18, 2004 Gen 18:1-10; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42 1) To our 21st century American sensibilities, Jesus says something positively shocking in today’s Gospel...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifteenth Sunday in OT, Year C July 11, 2004 Dt 30:10-14; Col1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 1) The lawyer in today’s Gospel asks Jesus one of the most important questions a man or woman can: “What...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourteenth Sunday in OT, C July 4, 2004 Is 66:10-14; Gal 6:14-18; Lk 10:1-12,17-20 1) Over the past few weeks, there has been a trilogy among the Gospel passages. Two weeks ago we focused on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twelfth Sunday in OT, C June 20, 2004 Zech 12:10-11;13:1; Gal3:26-29; Lk9:18-24 1) “Who do the crowds say that I am” and “Who do you say that I am?” Jesus asked these two questions of his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Corpus Christi, C June 13, 2004 Gen 14:18-20; 1Cor11:23-26; Lk 9:11-17 1) The multiplication of the loaves and fish in today’s Gospel, in addition to feeding a crowd of several thousand...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Day of Recollection for the Clergy of the Diocese of Burlington, Vermont June 9, 2004 This was the second of two presentations given to the priests of the Diocese of Burlington on John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. This...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Trinity Sunday, C, 2004 June 6, 2004 Prov 8:22-31; Rom 5:1-5; Jn 16:12-15 1) Today we celebrate the feast of who God is. Every Sunday is, in a very real sense, dedicated to God and therefore...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Pentecost Sunday 2004 May 30, 2004 Acts 2:1-11; 1Cor12:3-7,12-13; Rom 8:8-17; Jn 20:19-23; Jn 14:15-16,23-26 1) 53 days ago, the apostles were all gathered together in the Upper Room. Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 7th Sunday of Easter, C May 23, 2004 Acts 7:55-60; Rev 22:12-14,16-17,20; Jn 17:20-26 1) In today’s Gospel, taken from Jesus’ prayer during the Last Supper, Jesus pours out his heart to his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Ascension Thursday, C May 20, 2004 Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23 or Heb 9:24-28;10:19-23; Lk 24:46-53 1) On the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, we celebrate in a special way three things:...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, C, Prep May 16, 2004 Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Rev 21:10-14,22-23; Jn 14:23-29 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus talks to us about two things he died and rose from the dead to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday of Easter, C May 9, 2004 Acts 14:21-27; Rev 21:1-5; Jn 13:31-35 1) During my five years in Rome as a seminarian and a newly-ordained priest, I had the joy of leading thousands...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, C May 2, 2004 Acts 13:14, 43-52; Rev 7:9,14-17; Jn 10:27-30 1) On each of the Sundays of Easter, the Church has us continue our reflection on the magnitude and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday of Easter, Year C April 25, 2004 Acts 5:27-32, 40-41; Rev 5:11-14; Jn 21:11-19 1) On the Sundays of Easter, the Church gives us each week in the first reading a passage from the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Divine Mercy Sunday 2004 April 18, 2004 Acts 2:42-47; 1Pet1:3-9; Jn 20:1-9 1) We celebrated last week the most important event in the history of the world, the most crucial event in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Easter Sunday 2004 April 11, 2004 Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 1) On one level, Christians have always had a very easy time making the transition from Lent to Easter. We naturally...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Easter Vigil 2004 April 10, 2004 Gen 1:1-2:2; Ex 14:15-15:1; Ez 36:16-28; Rom 6:3-11; Lk 24:1-12 1) Tonight we celebrate the most important event in the history of the world. It is the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Palm Sunday, Year C April 4, 2004 Lk 19:28-40; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56 1) This Palm Sunday Liturgy is framed by two expressions. The first is “Hosanna,” which was shouted at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C March 28, 2004 Is43:16-21; Philippians 3:8-12; Jn 8:1-11 1) Last week, Jesus preached to us the parable of the Prodigal Son, which stressed the Father’s undying...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A March 21, 2004 1Sam 16:1,6-7,10-13; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 1) In this dramatic scene from today’s Gospel, Jesus does something different than he did in several...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Second Sunday of Lent, Year C March 7, 2004 Gen 15:5-12,17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28-36 1) Every year on the second Sunday of Lent the Church gives us two great gifts in the readings...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday of Lent, Year C March 14, 2004 Ex 3:1-8,13-15; 1Cor10:1-6,10-12; Lk 13:1-9 1) Lent is the time for us to realize that we are dust and unto dust we shall return. It is the time...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Lenten Mission St. Michael’s Church, Lowell, MA Wednesday of the First Week of Lent March 3, 2004 Jonah 3:1-10; Ps 51; Lk 11:29-32 Jonah 3:1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA First Sunday of Lent, Year C February 29, 2004 Dt 26:4-10;Rom10:8-13;Lk4:1-13 1) The episode in today’s Gospel is particularly special, because the only way the evangelists would have known...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Ash Wednesday 2004 February 25, 2004 Joel 2:12-18; 2Cor5:20-6:2; Mt6:1-6,16-18 1) Each of you in a few minutes will come up to receive ashes on your forehead and an instruction. That...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C February 22, 2004 1Sam26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23; 1Cor15:45-59; Lk6:27-38 1) Today Jesus continues the very clear and challenging homily he began seven days...
Father Roger J. Landry The Anchor February 13, 2004 Catholics are accustomed to asking themselves, “What would Jesus do?” in their situations or “What would Jesus say?” The answers to those questions generally make clear for us what we in turn...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C February 8, 2004 Is 6:1-8; 1Cor15:1-11; Lk 5:1-11 1) At the beginning of the third Christian millennium, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, wrote a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C February 1, 2004 Jer1:4-5,17-19; 1Cor12:31-13:13; Lk4:21-30 1) There is a shocking turnaround in today’s Gospel. The people with whom Jesus grew up...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C January 25, 2004 Neh 8:2-4,5-6,8-10; 1Cor12:12-30; Lk1:1-4;4:14-21 1) In the passage we have just heard, St. Luke tells us very clearly why the Holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Baptism of the Lord, Year C January 11, 2004 Is 42:1-4,6-7; Acts 10:34-38; Lk3:15-16,21-22 1) Today we mark the end of the Christmas season and the beginning of Ordinary Time in the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Epiphany 2004 January 4, 2004 Is 60:1-6; Eph3:2-3,5-6; Mt2:1-12 1) We have heard the story of the Epiphany — the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles represented by the wise men — so many...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA You Are My Mother Now! Mary, Mother of God, 2004 January 1, 2004 Num 6:22-27; Gal4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 1) In 1929, just 17 days short of his 9th birthday, the young Karol Wojtyla — the future...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Holy Family, Year C December 28, 2003 Sir 3:2-6,12-14; Col 3:12-21; Lk 2:41-52 1) The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has been losing his voice trying to get the Church and society to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Christmas 2003 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb1:1-6; Jn1:1-18 1)...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 4th Sunday of Advent, C December 21, 2003 Mic 5:1-4; Heb 10:5-10; Lk 1:39-45 1) Each your, on the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Church has us focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church does...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 3rd Sunday of Advent, C December 14, 2004 Zeph 3:14-18; Philippians 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 1) “What then should we do?” This was the question that was asked to St. John the baptist in today’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Men’s Breakfast Diocese of Sacramento, CA December 10, 2003 This lecture focuses on the issues surrounding the rebuilding of the Church after the clergy sexual abuse scandals. It was given at the monthly men’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 2nd Sunday of Advent, C December 7, 2003 Bar5:1-9; Phil1:4-6,8-11; Lk3:1-6 1) On the second Sunday of Advent each year, the Church leads us on pilgrimage to the Jordan River, so that we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 1st Sunday of Advent, C November 30, 2003 Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25; 1 Thes3:12-4:2; Lk21:25-28,34-36 1) Today we begin a new liturgial year. Sometimes Christians find this a little strange, that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Christ the King, Year B November 23, 2003 Dn 7:13-14; Rev1:5-8; Jn 18:33-37 1) Today with the whole Church we celebrate the solemnity of Christ the King, which is the end of the Church’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Channel 6 (Providence) Sunday Television Mass Bishop Stang Chapel, Dartmouth, MA Christ the King, Year B November 23, 2003 Dn 7:13-14; Rev1:5-8; Jn 18:33-37 1) Today with the whole Church we celebrate the solemnity of Christ the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 33rd Sunday of OT, Year B November 16, 2003 Dan 12:1-3; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32 1) It is very common for the passages from Sacred Scripture that we have at Mass to begin, “at that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Magnificat Missal November 9, 2003 “The most holy Church of the Lateran, the mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world!” Those words, in Latin, greet every pilgrim entering through the front door...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 The Immaculate Conception: Prepared to Receive Jesus Introduction to the Retreat I. Welcome •On behalf of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 Luke 1:26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 Luke 11:27 While he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 Luke 1:39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 John 19:23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 I. The Lateran and Rebuilding the Church on Living Stones •Right at the beginning of the 1200s, the Church was in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Renewal at the School of Mary” November 7-9, 2003 I. Introduction •We’ve covered a lot of ground during our mini-course of the school of Mary. We’ve taken several...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA All Souls’ Day 2003 November 2, 2003 Job 19:1,23-27; Ps 23; 1Cor15:51-57; Jn6:37-40; Wis 3:1-9; Philippians 3:20-21; Jn 11:17-27; 2Macc12:43-46; Rev 14:13; Jn 14:1-6 1) Today, with Catholics...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA All Saints Day 2003 November 1, 2003 Rev 7:2-4,9-14; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 1) This is a feast about the whole point of human life. We’re made for heaven, to spend eternity with God in His...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 30th Sunday of OT, Year B October 26, 2003 Jer 31:7-9; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 1) “What do you want me to do for you?” Which one of us would not want the Lord to ask us the question he asks...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 29th Sunday of OT, Year B 25th anniversary of the Election of Pope John Paul II October 19, 2003 Is 53:10-11; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45 1) God created us to be great, not mediocre. He died in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Church of Our Savior, New York City October 16, 2003 25th Anniversary of John Paul II’s Election This lecture was given for the 25th anniversary of the election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to the Papacy. It’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 28th Sunday of OT, Year B October 12, 2003 Wis 7:7-11; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30 1) As a young king of the Lord’s people, Solomon pleased the Lord very much. One night God appeared to Solomon...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Speech to the East Coast Engaged Encounter Training Couples Lancaster, Pennsylvania October 10, 2003 This speech was given to the training couples for Engaged Encounter from the East Coast. To download a PDF, please click below: ...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 27th Sunday of OT, Year B October 5, 2003 Gen 2:18-24; Heb 2:9-11; Mk10:2-16 1) At the beginning of time, God created the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon, the oceans and the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 26th Sunday of OT, Year B September 28, 2003 Numbers 11:25-29; James 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43,45,47-48 1) We encounter in today’s Gospel a big contrast and a big surprise. The contrast is between...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Exaltation of the Cross, Year B September 14, 2003 Num 21:4-9; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 1) Today we celebrate what Pope John Paul II has called THE symbol of Christianity. Most of us would...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 23rd Sunday of OT, Year B September 7, 2003 Is 35:4-7; James 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 1) In today’s Gospel we glimpse the awe of those who witnessed Jesus’ miracles and works live. Jesus, in the...
Doing the Word, Not Adding or Subtracting From It, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), August 31, 2003
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 22nd Sunday of OT, Year B August 31, 2003 Deut 4:1-2,6-8; James 1:17-18; 21-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 1) Saint James challenges every one of us here in the Church right now in the same...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 21st Sunday of OT, Year B August 24, 2003 Jos 24:1-2,15-18; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69 1) Today’s readings could not be possibly more dramatic — or more relevant for us. They bring us face-to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 20th Sunday of OT, Year B August 17, 2003 Prov 9:1-6; Eph 5:15-20; John 6:52-59 1) Today we enter into one of the most important and dramatic scenes in the life of Jesus — and, because Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis, MA Solemnity of the Assumption 2003 August 15, 2003 Rev 11:19,12:1-6,10; 1Cor15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 “The Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 19th Sunday of OT, Year B August 10, 2003 2Kings4:42-44; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 1) Today we enter together into the third week of Jesus’ five-week course on the mystery of his body and blood...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 17th Sunday of OT, Year B July 27, 2003 2Kings4:42-44; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 1) We have been focusing all year on the Gospel of St. Mark. If we continued in this progression, we would have...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 16th Sunday of OT, Year B July 20, 2003 Jer 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 1) The Lord says through the prophet Jeremiah in today’s first reading that the Lord will not allow bad shepherds...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 15th Sunday of OT, Year B July 13, 2003 Am 7:12-15; Eph 1:3-14; Mk 6:7-13 1) Jesus’ love for us was so great that not only did he want to save us, but he wanted to involve us in our own...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA 14th Sunday of OT, Year B July 6, 2003 Ez 2:2-5; 2 Cor 7-10; Mk 6:1-6 1) Today’s readings focus on two of the most essential realities of living the Christian life: first, how to receive...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Trinity Sunday, Year B (Fathers’ Day) June 15, 2003 Deut 4:32-34, 39-40; Rom 8:14-17; Mt 28:16-20 1) Today we celebrate the feast of God, who God is. Over the course of human history, most...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Pentecost Sunday, Year B June 8, 2003 Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3-7,12-13; Jn 20:19-23 1) 53 days ago, the apostles were all gathered together in the Upper Room. Jesus washed their feet and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School Baccalaureate Mass Holy Name Church, Fall River, MA May 30, 2003 Acts 4:32-35; Eph 1:17-25; Matt 5:1-12 1) While I was a seminarian and a priest in Rome, I had the privilege to be able to be involved...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Ascension of the Lord, Year B May 29, 2003 Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 16:15-20 1) On the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, we celebrate remember in a special way three things: a) Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, B May 25, 2003 Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; 1John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17 1) There’s a story told by St. Jerome, a fourth-century doctor of the Church, that when St. John...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Our Lady of the Rosary Monastery, Summit, NJ Mary, Patroness of the Order of Preachers May 8, 2003 1) We are celebrating today the great feast of Mary as Patronness of the Order of Preachers. The style and reality of Mary’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Our Lady of the Rosary Monastery, Summit, NJ Marian Conference May 7, 2003 It’s a great joy for me to be with you, sisters, making a pilgrimage to the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, during the month dedicated to Mary in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Third Sunday of Easter, Year B May 4, 2003 Acts 2:42-47; 1Pet1:3-9; Jn 20:1-9 1) “You are witnesses of these things.” In today’s Gospel, we see how Jesus was putting the final touches in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday of Easter, 2003 April 27, 2003 Acts 2:42-47; 1Pet1:3-9; Jn 20:1-9 1) We celebrated last week the most important event in the history of the world, the most crucial event in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Church, Fall River, MA Easter Sunday, 2003 April 20, 2003 Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; John 20:1-9 Christ has risen! Alleluia! Christ has truly risen! Alleluia! Alleluia! 1) Today we celebrate the most important...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Sebastian Church, Providence, RI Priestly Day of Recollection April 14, 2003 Intro • At the beginning of this Lent, on Ash Wednesday and then again on the first Sunday of Lent, we listened to Jesus’ first homily, all 19 words...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Church, Fall River, MA Fifth Sunday of Lent, B April 6, 2003 Jer 31:31-34; Heb 5:7-9; Jn 12:20-33 1) In the older, majestic pulpits in Europe, often they would inscribe on the inside pulpit certain phrases from the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish Third Sunday of Lent, B March 23, 2003 Ex 20:1-17; 1Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25 1) In today’s Gospel, we encounter a Jesus with whom many of us, especially today, are unfamiliar. The same Jesus whom Isaiah...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Our Lady of Health Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday of Lent, B March 16, 2003 Gen 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18; Rom 8:31-34; Mk 9:2-10 1) We encounter two of the most dramatic scenes in Sacred Scripture today, the story of Abraham and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Diocese of Fall River Television Mass Bishop Stang Chapel, N. Dartmouth, MA First Sunday of Lent, B March 9, 2003 Gen 9:8-15; 1Pet3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 • We have Jesus’ first homily today in the Gospel. Jesus was remarkably brief...
Fr. Roger J. Landry March 2, 2003 Translation of “Les Fondements de la Doctrine de L’Église concernant les principes de la vie conjugale,” Analecta Cracoviensia, Societas Theologorum, Polona Cracoviae Sumptibus Curiae Metropolitanae Cracoviensis...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Votive Mass for Justice & Peace February 12, 2003 We are now in preparation for war in Iraq. The Department of Homeland Security has just declared a Code Orange. How does a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Feast of the Presentation of the Lord February 2, 2003 Mal 3:1-4; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 1) Today we celebrate a great feast, one that is fixed 40 days after Christmas, so it can fall on any...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA February 2003 This summary of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body was prepared for a study session taking place in Lent 2003 and has since been used by tens of thousands in order to get...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C January 18, 2004 Is62:1-5; 1Cor12:4-11; Jn2:1-11 1) Today we are present at the most famous wedding of all time. It wasn’t the wedding of Mark Antony...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Christmas Day Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb1:1-6; Jn1:1-18 1) Early...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Advent 2002 Introduction The “O Antiphons” refer to the seven antiphons that are recited (or chanted) preceding the Magnificat during Vespers of the Liturgy of the Hours. They cover the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Third Sunday of Advent, Year B December 15, 2002 Is 61:1-2,10-11; Lk 1:46-42; 1Thes 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8, 19-28 1) Many of us have spent years on this one question. Most of us have tried to help...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford, MA 25th Anniversary of Sister M. Ajay, MC & Sister Lee Fuong, MC Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12, 2002 1) Six years ago, when he was preparing to celebrate his 50th anniversary as...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday of Advent, Year B December 8, 2002 Is. 40: 1-5, 9-11; Mark 1:1-8 1) Every Advent, the Church sends us four helpers to prepare to make the effort to welcome Christ, to welcome...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA First Sunday of Advent, Year B December 1, 2002 Is 63:16-17,19; 64:2-7; Ps 80; 1Cor 1:3-9; Mk 13:33-37 1) Today we begin a new liturgical year. Sometimes Christians find this a little...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
“A Springtime of Faith”
Bread of Life Retreat for Young Adults
Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown, MA
November 30, 2002
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Appreciating Sacred Scripture
Fr. Roger J. Landry Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown, MA Bread of Life Young Adult Retreat Feast of St. Andrew November 30, 2002 Rom 10:9-18; Ps 19; Mt 4:18-22 1) We first encounter St. Andrew at the Jordan river astride St. John the Baptist, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Solemnity of Christ the King, Year A November 24, 2002 Ez 34:11-12, 15-17; Ps 23; 1Cor 15:20-28; Mt 25:31-46 1) Today with the whole Church we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. This is...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Christ” Sunday Homily November 15-17, 2002 Mt 25:14-30 1) The Lord knew from all eternity that you would be here, making this retreat this weekend...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Jesus” Mass Homily November 15-17, 2002 1) After the Ascension, the apostles all gathered around Mary, to pray. Why to pray, and why around her? Well...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Jesus” November 15-17, 2002 • The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has been losing his voice trying to get the Church to confront what he calls the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Jesus” November 15-17, 2002 • In the book of Genesis, we find a very mysterious scene involving Jacob and God. Here’s what the sacred author writes:...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Jesus” November 15-17, 2002 Matt. 26:26 While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Jesus” November 15-17, 2002 • Prayer, as we’ve discussed, is a loving dialogue with the Lord, in which we try to seek Him, find Him, love Him, obey...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Jesus” November 15-17, 2002 “Lord, Teach us how to pray!” Matt. 14:23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat given at Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, California “Encountering Jesus” November 15-17, 2002 John 12:20 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, who was from...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Mass for the Deceased Alumni & Benefactors November 12, 2002 St. Paul says that the three things that abide are faith, hope and love, and we come together tonight moved by each of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, A November 10, 2002 Wis 6:12-16; 1Thess 4:13-18; Mt 25:13 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus uses an image that perhaps to us might seem a little strange about the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA All Saints Day November 1, 2002 Rev 7:2-4,9-14; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 • This is a feast about the whole point of human life. We’re made for heaven, to spend eternity with God in a kingdom of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time October 27, 2002 Exod 22:20-26; Thess1:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 1) In responding to the question of the lawyer in today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us the most important thing...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
A Celebration of Pope John Paul II and the Gift of the Papacy
Church of Our Savior, New York City
October 16, 2002
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Juvenology
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, A October 13, 2002 Is 25:6-10; Ps 23; Phil 4:12-14, 19-20; Mt 22:1-14 1) Every time Jesus speaks to us in the Gospel it is meant to change our lives...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Ring Mass for Junior Class October 11, 2002 1Kings3:4-13; Col 3; Mt 13:25-28 1) When I was in seminary, the third theologians were the leaders. The first theologians were trying to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, A September 22, 2002 Is 55:6-9; Phil 1:20-27; Mt 20:1-16 1) Sometimes Jesus’ parables really do hit home and show how the kingdom of God is so different...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School Opening School Mass Translated feast day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross September 16, 2002 Numbers 21:4-9; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 I. WYD & Cross A. Several BCHS students were among the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, A September 15, 2002 Sir 27:30-28:9; Ps 103; Rom 14:7-9; Mt 18:21-35 1) In order to appreciate what Jesus is trying to say to each one of us today about...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, A Ez 33:7-9; Rom 13:8-10; Mt 18:15-20 1) “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there will I be in their midst.” So Jesus said to his disciples two...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Night of Recollection for CCD Teachers September 8, 2002 I. Purpose and Mission of CCD A. The purpose of CCD is to cooperate with Jesus in his mission of the salvation of the world. B...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, A September 1, 2002 Jer 20:7-9; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus rebukes St. Peter with tremendous force. Immediately before this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA BCHS Faculty & Staff Retreat Day Rose Hawthorne House, Fall River August 26, 2002 Is 11:1-4; James 1:19-27; Mt 28:16-20 A. We have a tremendous mission in Catholic education, much...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, A August 25, 2002 Is 22:19-23; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20 This Gospel concerns, essentially, two things or, better, two persons: Who Christ is; and who...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Christopher’s Church, Tiverton RI Baptism of Emma Concetta Cincotta August 25, 2002 Ezekiel 36; Mt 28:16-20 What’s happening here today is much more than a nice ceremony. It is and always will be the most important day in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Solemnity of the Assumption August 15, 2002 Vigil: 1Chron15:3-4, 15-16;16-1-2; 1Cor15:54-57; Lk 11:27-28 Solemnity: Rev 11:19,12:1-6,10; 1Cor15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 “The Immaculate Virgin...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 11, 2002 Kings 19:9-13; Ps 84; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 We learn three lessons from today’s Gospel: a) When we keep our eyes on Jesus, all good...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 4, 2002 Is 55:1-3; Ps 144; Rom 8:35-39; Matt 14:13-21 1) Most of us are pretty familiar with the scene from today’s Gospel, the multiplication of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
World Youth Alliance Symposium
World Youth Day 2002
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 25, 2002
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Theological Andrology
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 21, 2002 Wis 12:13,16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 1) In the passages from the Gospel that the Church has given us this summer, we will hear many...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 14, 2002 Is 55:10-11; Ps 64; Rom 8:18-23; Mt 13:1-23 1) Today’s Gospel is about our relationship with God, which simply is, whether we admit it or...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Fourteenth Sunday of OT, Year A July 7, 2002 Zech 9:9-10; Rom 8:9-13; Mt 11:25-30 1) In making your decision to come to Mass this afternoon, you probably did not anticipate that you were...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A June 30, 2002 2Kings4:8-11, 14-16; Rom 6:3-4,8-11; Mt 10:37-42 Jesus speaks of the worthy disciple in the Gospel. There’s a difference between a worthy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Charles Borromeo, San Diego, CA 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A June 23, 2002 Jer 20:10-13; Ps 68; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33 1) Fear not! Be not afraid! So Jesus said to the apostles in the Gospel and so he says to each...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Diocese of Fall River Television Mass Bishop Stang High School Chapel, N. Dartmouth, MA June 9, 2002 Hos 6:3-6; Rom 4:18-25; Mt 9:9-13 One of the great joys of my years in seminary in Rome preparing to be a priest was the fact...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Tenth Sunday of OT, Year A Renew Prayer Card Sunday June 9, 2002 Hos 6:3-6; Rom 4:18-25; Mt 9:9-13 1) One of the great joys of my years in seminary in Rome preparing to be a priest was the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA BCHS Baccalaureate Mass Holy Name Parish, Fall River Feast of the Visitation, May 31, 2002 Zeph 3:14-18; Is 12:2-6; Lk 1:39-56 1) It’s very fitting that this Baccalaureate Mass for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Trinity Sunday, Year A May 26, 2002 Ex 34:4-6,8-9; 2Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18 1) Every Sunday is, in a very real sense, dedicated to God and therefore every Sunday is, in a very real sense...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A May 12, 2002 Acts 1:12-14; 1Pet 4:13-16; Jn 17:1-11 1) After the Ascension, the apostles all gathered around Mary, to pray. Why to pray, and why around her...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Ascension of the Lord, Year A May 9, 2002 Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt28:16-20 We celebrate or mark three things today: 1) An ending — We celebrate the end of Jesus’ earthly, physical life...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 6th Sunday of Easter, A May 5, 2002 Acts 8:5-8,14-17; 1Pet 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 Outline for Portuguese homily A. Reason for our hope 1) Peter tells us always to be ready to give the reason...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A April 28, 2002 Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33; 1Pet2:4-9; John 14:1-12 1) Doubting Thomas is at it again today. Just as he wouldn’t accept his brother apostles’...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A April 21, 2002 Acts 2:14,36-41; Ps 23; 1Pet 2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 1) Each of the Sundays of Easter continues our reflection on the magnitude and reality of this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Easter Sunday March 31, 2002 Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 1) Today we celebrate with great joy our Christian BELIEF in the most important event in the history of the world, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Good Friday March 29, 2002 Is 52:13-53:12; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 Jesus mounts his pulpit for the last time. Each word would have cost him tremendously. The hands that once...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish Holy Thursday March 28, 2002 Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116; 1Cor11:23-26; Jn13:1-15 Espirito Santo School Mass 1) Jesus has desired with desire to eat this Passover with us. • Just as he said to the apostles in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Palm Sunday, Year A March 24, 2002 Mt 21:1-11; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14-27:66 1) This Palm Sunday Liturgy is framed by two expressions. The first is “Hosanna,” which was shouted at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Cecilia Motherhouse, Nashville, TN Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A March 10, 2002 1Sam16:1,6-7,10-13; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 1) In this dramatic scene from today’s Gospel, Jesus does something different than he did in several...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Third Sunday of Lent, Year A March 3, 2002 Ex 17:3-7; Rom 5:1-8; Jn 4:5-42 1) In 1941, underneath St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, a pagan necropolis, an ancient pagan cemetery, was found...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday of Lent, Year A February 24, 2002 Gen 12:1-4; 2Tim 1:8-10; Mt 17:1-9 1) Lent is a 40-day uphill pilgrimage with Jesus. Jesus takes us where he wills and where he knows we need...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Fifth Sunday of OT, Year A February 10, 2002 Is 58-7-10; Ps 112; 1Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 1) In today’s readings, Jesus tells us two crucial truths about who we are as his disciples and who we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A February 3, 2002 Zeph 2:3, 3:12-13; 1Cor1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12 1) The headlines this past week did not focus on the Patriots’ march to the Super Bowl, or on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Catholics Schools Week Mass Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas January 28, 2002 Wis 7:7-10,15-16; Ps118:9-14; Mt23:8-12 1) The Theme of Catholic Schools Week 2002, which you can find on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday of OT, Year A January 20, 2002 Is 49:3-6; 1Cor1:1-3; Jn 1:29-34 1) Today, right at the beginning of the first reading, Isaiah says something that has tremendous importance for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Feast of the Epiphany, Year A January 6, 2002 Is 60:1-6; Eph3:2-6; Mt2:1-12 1) We have heard the story of the Epiphany — the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles represented by the wise...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Feast of the Holy Family, Year A December 30, 2001 Sir 3:2-6, 12-14; Col 3:12-21; Mt 2:13-15, 19-23 1) The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has been losing his voice trying to get the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A December 23, 2001 Is 7:10-14; Rom1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 1) Christmas is now just a couple of days away and we are in our immediate preparation for this great day...
Why Did God Become Man? Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Advent Mass December 18, 2001 We are in the Octave of immediate preparation for Christmas. What we “get out” of this celebration will be proportional to what we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday of Advent, Year A December 9, 2001 Is11:1-10; Rom15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 1) This Sunday’s liturgy makes us hear the voice of the two greatest Advent preachers: Isaiah and St. John the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Solemnity of Christ the King, Year C November 25, 2001 2Sam 5:1-3; Col1:12-20; Lk23:35-43 1) We celebrate the fact today that Christ is king of the universe. King of everything. King of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Thanksgiving Mass November 20, 2001 1) “What do we have to give thanks for this year, anyway? Our country’s been attacked. Thousands have died. We’re all under threat. We can’t even...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 32nd Sunday of OT, Year C November 11, 2001 2Macc7:12-9-14; 2Thes2:61-3:5; Lk20:27-38 1) Jesus focuses on the reality of the resurrection of the body, of heaven, and of how marriage fits into...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Corpus Christi Parish, Sandwich, Massachusetts
November 10, 2001
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The Catholic Faith and Civic Issues
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA All Saints Day November 1, 2001 Rev 7:2-4,9-14; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 Homiletic Notes • St. Teresa of Avila, Siempre. Lived for heaven. Sought to live for God. Great joy through suffering...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 29th Sunday of OT, Year C October 21, 2001 Ex 17:8-13; 2Tim3:14-14:2; Lk 18:1-8 1) Jesus could not have been any more explicit in today’s Gospel about prayer. He said that we need to pray...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Mass for the Woman’s Rosary Sodality 27th Sunday of OT, Year C Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary October 7, 2001 Hb1:2-3;2:2-4; 2 tim1:6-8,13-14; Lk 17:5-10 Homiletic notes and outline for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 27th Sunday of OT, Year C Respect Life Sunday October 7, 2001 Heb1:2-3;2:2-4; 2 Tim1:6-8,13-14; Lk 17:5-10 1) We were all shocked by the tremendous violence and hatred that the whole world...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 25th Sunday of OT, Year C September 23, 2001 Am 8:4-7; 1Tim2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 1) This Sunday’s Gospel is perhaps the most confusing story in any part of the Gospel. It almost seems as if Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 23rd Sunday of OT, Year C September 9, 2001 Wis 9:13-18; Phlm 9-10, 12-17; Lk 14:25-33 1) Today’s Gospel is meant to change our lives forever. From the perspective of heaven, if we’re blessed...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 21st Sunday of OT, Year C August 26, 2001 Is 66:18-21; Heb 12:5-7; Lk 13:22-30 1) “How many people will be saved?,” someone asks from the Crowd today. It could have easily been any of us...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 20th Sunday of OT, Year C August 19, 2001 Jer 28:4-6,8-10; Heb 12:1-4; Lk 12:49-53 1) Last week, we focused on the faith of Abraham, the trust in God that made this old man capable of doing...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 19th Sunday of OT, Year C August 12, 2001 Wis 18:6-9; Heb 11:1-2,8-19; Lk 12:32-48 1) Imagine that you were 75 years old and you became convinced that God appeared to you one day and said...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 18th Sunday of OT, Year C August 5, 2001 Eccl 1:2; 2:21-23; Col 3:1-5,9-11; Lk 12:13-21 1) Almost everything in this world is vanity: Money, fame, property, solely earthly relationships and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 16th Sunday of OT, Year C July 22, 2001 Gn 18:1-10; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42 Homiletic notes 1) Today’s Gospel scene is startling, in how Jesus sides with Mary against her sister Martha. Do...
Father Roger J. Landry Dominican Monastery, Krakow, Poland Tertio Millennio Conference Wednesday of 13th Week, Year I July 4, 2001 Gen 21:5:8-20; Mt 8:28-34 In today’s Gospel, the inhabitants asked Jesus, who had come to heal them of their...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Dominican Monastery, Krakow, Poland Tertio Millennio Conference Memorial of St. Ireneaus June 28, 2001 2Tim2:22-26; Jn 17:20-26 1) “The glory of God is man fully alive,” St. Ireneus teaches us, “and the life of man is the vision...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Pentecost Sunday, Year C June 3, 2001 Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3-7,12-13; Jn 20:19-23 1) First day at ES. Tour from Fr. Jim. Turned around and saw the stained glass. I counted the apostles...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Baccalaureate Mass for BCHS Class of 2001 Holy Name Parish, Fall River Memorial of St. Justin Martyr June 1, 2001 1Cor 1:18-25; Mt 28:16-20 1) There are no coincidences in God. This...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year C May 27, 2001 Acts 7:55-60; Rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; Jn 17:20-26 1) In today’s Gospel, taken from St. John’s account of the last Supper, Jesus the Lord pours...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Ascension of the Lord, Year C May 24, 2001 Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20 1) This Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord into heaven leads us to celebrate several things. First and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C May 20, 2001 Acts 15:1-2,22-29; Rev 21:10-14, 22-23; Jn 14:23-29 1) In the readings of today’s Mass, the Church begins the period of preparation for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C May 6, 2001 Acts 13:14,43-52; Rev 7:9,14-17; Jn 10:27-30 1) Christ says to us very clearly that his sheep hear his voice. He knows them and they follow him. He...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Chaplain’s Chat Series on Controversial and Often Misunderstood Issues in Catholicism Series May 2001 To download a PDF of the lecture, please click below: The Case for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA
May 2001
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The Morality of the Death Penalty
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday of Easter, Year C April 22, 2001 Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118; Rev 1:9-11-13,17-19;Jn20:19-31 1) Put yourself in the upper room with the apostles on the night of the resurrection. Two...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Good Friday April 13, 2001 Is 52:13-53:12; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 This is a day for Christians throughout the world to weep. To weep over the great sufferings of Christ. To weep...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Palm Sunday, Year C April 8, 2001 Lk 19:28-40; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56 1) This Palm Sunday Liturgy is framed by two expressions. The first is “Hosanna,” which was shouted at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Chaplain’s Chat Series on Controversial and Often Misunderstood Issues in Catholicism Series April 2001 To download a PDF of the lecture, please click below: All Male Priesthood...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 5th Sunday of Lent, Year C April 1, 2001 Is 43:16-21; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11 1) Last week we encountered the extraordinary parable of Jesus about the Prodigal Son, about the Father’s love for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 4th Sunday of Lent, Year C March 25, 2001 Josh 5:9-10;12; 2Cor5:17-21; Lk15:1-3,11-32 Homiletic Notes 1. Ambassador of Christ — Brings a message from the one represented, God appeals through...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year C March 11, 2001 Gen 15:5-12, 17-18; Phil 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28-36 1) Why does the Church give us this reading of the Transfiguration of the Lord every second Sunday of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Chaplain’s Chat Series on Controversial and Often Misunderstood Issues in Catholicism Series March 2001 To download a PDF of the lecture, please click below: Penance Outline of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Ash Wednesday February 28, 2001 1) A priest friend of mine recently told me a story that occurred 23 years ago last week. He had gone to Florida to visit his grandparents, but his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 8th Sunday of OT, Year C February 25, 2001 Sir 24:4-7; Ps 92:2-3,13-16;1Cor15:54-58; Lk 6:39-45 1) For the third straight week, we have a chance to listen to the greatest homily ever given:...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 6th Sunday of OT, Year C February 11, 2001 Jer 17:5-8; 1Cor 15:12,16-20; Lk 6:17,20-26 1) Today’s readings draw an extraordinarily sharp contrast that is highly relevant to us, between two...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Catholic Schools Week Feast of the Presentation February 2, 2001 Jesus is the “light of revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of his people Israel.” These words from the elderly...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 4th Sunday of OT, Year C Catholic Schools Week Mass January 28, 2001 Jer 1:4-5, 17-19; 1 Cor 12:31-13:13; Lk 4:21-30 Why did God give us a brain? So that we might learn the truth, and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Solemnity of the Epiphany January 7, 2001 Catholic Vocations Week Three wise men came from such a distance to adore Christ, to give them their homage much more than gold, frankincense and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Christmas 2000 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17 22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb1:1-6; Jn1:1-18 1) The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Second Sunday in Advent, Year C December 10, 2000 Bar 5:1-9; Phil 1:4-6,8-11; Lk 3:1-6 1) In today’s Gospel we meet John the Baptist, who prepared everyone to welcome the Messiah when he was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady December 8, 2000 Gn 3:9-15,20; Eph 1:3-6,11-12; Lk 1:26-38 Preaching Outline Relevance & Catechesis — not virginal conception of Christ...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Solemnity of Christ the King, Year B November 26, 2000 Dn 7:13-14; Rev1:5-8; Jn 18:33-37 1) Christ is king of time, universe, every single person, not just Christians. Son of God. Kingdom not...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, MA Thanksgiving Mass November 21, 2000 1) Melanie was a twelve-year old girl in a small town in Utah, everything going for her. Just about the beginning of November, 1992, she was with her...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River 32nd Sunday of OT, Year B November 12, 2000 1Kgs17:10-16; Heb 9:24-28; Mk 12:38-44 Today’s Gospel is more than about money. The old widow is more than a poster-girl for the grand annual...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 30th Sunday in OT, Year B October 29, 2000 Jer 31:7-9; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 Preaching Outline (1) “Lord, that I may see!” • This expression of Bartimaeus is more than a cry from a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Diocese of Fall River Television Mass Bishop Stang High School Chapel, N. Dartmouth, MA 22st Sunday in OT, Year B September 3, 2000 Dt 4:1-2,6-8; Jas 1:17-18,21-22,27; Mk 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 St. James in the second reading tells us...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 22st Sunday in OT, Year B September 3, 2000 Dt 4:1-2,6-8; Jas 1:17-18,21-22,27; Mk 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 (1) Saint James challenges every one of us here in the Church right now in the same way he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Espirito Santo Church, Fall River, MA
August 27, 2000
The Third Part of the Secret of Fatima, Study and Outline
Third Part of the Secret of Fatima
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 21st Sunday in OT, Year B August 27, 2000 Joshua 24:1-2,15-18; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69 1) Today’s readings could not be possibly more dramatic — or more important for us. They bring us face...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Convent of the Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth
New Bedford, MA
August 24, 2000
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Evangelical Counsels
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 20th Sunday in OT, Year B August 20, 2000 Prov9:1-6; Eph5:15-20; Jn 6:51-58 1) Two-thousand years ago the disciples used to constantly ask Jesus what heaven was like and Jesus would often...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Solemnity of the Assumption August 15, 2000 Rev 11:19,12:1-6,10; 1Cor15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 1. Today we celebrate the great solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady, body and soul, into heaven...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Vigil of the Assumption August 14, 2000 1Chron15:3-4, 15-16;16-1-2; 1Cor15:54-57; Lk 11:27-28 1. This Gospel, at first glance, seems to be a very strange choice on this Vigil of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Mother of God Convent, New Bedford, MA Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth Memorial of St. Edith Stein (St. Teresia Benedicta a Cruce) August 9, 2000 Jer 31:1-7; Mt 15:21-28 1. “Far be it from me to glory except in the Cross of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA Transfiguration of the Lord, Year B August 6, 2000 Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; 2Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10 1) There are only three times that we hear God the Father speak in the New Testament. The first is...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Christopher’s Church, Tiverton RI Baptism of Hanah Amica Cincotta (born May 7) July 30, 2000 Ezekiel 36; John 3 When we look at the Cross, we see just how much Jesus suffered for us. And today we know why he suffered so much...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 17th Sunday in OT, Year B July 30, 2000 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 1) In today’s Gospel, there is a marked change from previous weeks. We have been reading from the Gospel of Mark...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Mary’s Church, New Bedford, MA First Mass of Thanksgiving, Fr. Gerard O’Connor 16th Sunday in OT, Year B July 23, 2000 Jer 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 Monsignor Oliveira, my brother priests, friends and family of our...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 16th Sunday in OT, Year B July 23, 2000 Jer 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 1) Last week, we focused on the fact that each Christian, every one of us, has the vocation to be a missionary, to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River, MA 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B July 16, 2000 Am 7:12-15; Eph 1:3-14; Mt 6:7-13 Outline of Homily I — In today’s readings, we see whom God chooses to proclaim his Word. A. Amos was a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Assumption Chapel Solemnity of SS Peter and Paul June 29, 2000 Acts 12:1-11; 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18; Mt 16:13-19 Today we celebrate the deaths of SS. Peter and Paul, here in this city of Rome. And...
Fr. Roger J. Landry North American College Immaculate Conception Chapel Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter June 9, 2000 Acts 25:13-21; Jn 21:15-19 Follow me! Our Lord was always very simple with Peter. He always had one simple message, one...
Fr. Roger J. Landry RSM Casa della Misericordia, Rome Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B May 28, 2000 Acts 10:25-26,34-35,44-48; 1 Jn 4:7-10; Jn 15:9-17 Saint Jerome tells us that while Saint John was an elderly man in Ephesus, living in a cave with a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Easter Monday April 24, 2000 Acts 2:14,22-32; Mt 28:8-15 At the Easter Vigil, we talked at length about our Christian BELIEF in the fact of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We believe this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Easter Sunday April 23, 2000 Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 On one level, Christians have always had a very easy time making the transition from Lent to Easter. We naturally prefer eating to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Easter Vigil April 22, 2000 Gen 1:1-2:2; Gen 22:1-18; Ex 14:15-15:1; Is 54:5-14; Is 55:1-11 Bar 3:9-15,32-4:4; Ez 36:16-28; Rom 6:3-11; Mk 16:1-7 When the Scribes and the Pharisees asked Jesus for a sign...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Good Friday April 21, 2000 Is 52:13-53:12; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 This is a day for Christians throughout the world to weep. To weep over the great sufferings of Christ. To weep over our sins...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Holy Thursday April 20, 2000 Ex 12:1-8,11-14; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 “Jesus, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” This whole Gospel, this whole feast, is full of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Wednesday of Holy Week April 19, 2000 Is 50:4-9a; Mt 26:14-25 Today for the third straight day, the Church presents for our reflection the betrayal of Judas. Over the past couple of days, we have compared...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Tuesday of Holy Week April 18, 2000 Is 49:1-6; Jn 13:21-33; 36-38 With our reflection on today’s Gospel, we will continue to try to enter into the significance of the events leading to the Passion, Death...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Monday of Holy Week April 17, 2000 Is 42:1-7; Jn 12:1-11 Today’s Gospel reading presents us two contrasting responses to Jesus, that of Mary, the sister of Lazarus and Martha, and that of Judas. If we...