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...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Marienhaus, Germany Palm Sunday, Year B April 16, 2000 Mk 11:1-10; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1-15:47 This Palm Sunday Liturgy is framed by two expressions. The first is “Hosanna,” which was shouted at the beginning of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Seminary Mass Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent April 3, 2000 Is 65:17-21; Jn 4:43-54 As we begin week four of our six week pilgrimage toward Calvary, the Church gives us a Gospel that not only...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Monday of the Third Week of Lent March 27, 2000 2 Kings 5:1-15; Lk 4:24-30 In today’s Gospel, Jesus states clearly that no prophet gains acceptance in his native place, that those who...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Thursday of the First Week of Lent March 16, 2000 Esther 12:14-16, 23-25; Mt 7:7-12 The readings that the Church gives us today are clearly and primarily about confidence in prayer. The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Seminary Mass Monday of the First Week of Lent March 13, 2000 Lv 19:1-2, 11-18; Mt 25:31-46 When the Catholic-Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification was released at the end...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Sant’Agostino Station Church, Rome Saturday after Ash Wednesday March 11, 2000 Is 58:9b-14; Lk 5:27-32 Two blocks from here, in the Church of San Luigi, is found without a doubt the most famous artistic depiction ever made of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Sunday of the Ninth Week, Year B March 5, 2000 Dt 5:12-15; 2Cor4:6-11; Mk2:23-3:6 When Jesus was examined by the lawyer about the greatest of the 613 commandments of the Old Covenant, he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis Wednesday of Seventh Week, Year II; Memorial of St. Polycarp February 23, 2000 Rev 2:8-11; Mk 9:38-40 Throughout the two millenia of Christianity, one of the most often misunderstood issues of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry North American College Assumption Chapel Saturday of the Sixth Week, Year II February 19, 2000 James 3:1-10; Mk 9:2-13 There are only three times that we hear God the Father speak in the New Testament. The first is at Jesus’...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Wednesday of Sixth Week, Year II February 16, 2000 James 1:19-27; Mk 8:22-26 During this week and next, we are privileged to be able to hear St. James’ letter, which I have always found...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Tuesday of Sixth Week, Year II February 15, 2000 James 1:12-18; Mk 8:14-21 “Keep your eyes open!” — Jesus tells us at 6:45 this morning, as he told the apostles in the boat — “Be on your...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College, Vatican City Corso Auditorium February 11, 2000 This lecture was given to the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops who had come to Rome to get to know the roots of Christianity...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Monday of the 4th Week of OT, Year II January 30, 2000 2 Sm 15:13-14,30;16:5-13 In the first reading, we see David on the Mount of Olives weeping for his son Absalom, who killed David’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College, Vatican City Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B January 23, 2000 Jonah 3:1-5,10; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20 God raises up prophets for every age. He raised up Jonah to convert Ninevah. He...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B January 16, 2000 1Sam3:3-10,19; Ps 40; 1 Cor 6:13-15;17-20;Jn1:35-42 Throughout our years in formation for the priesthood, we have probably heard proclaimed...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Feast of St. John the Evangelist December 27, 1999 1Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97; Jn 20:2-8 St. John is clearly one of the great figures of the history of Christianity. This Son of Thunder was one of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome December 24, 1999 2Sam 7:1-5,8-11,16; Ps 89; Lk 1 67-79 “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,” Zechariah joyfully exclaims, “for he has come to his people and set them free. He has...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome December 21, 1999 Songs 2:8-14; Ps 33; Lk 1:39-45 “Mary set out with haste” to visit her pregnant relative Elizabeth. Today the Church hastily follows her along her journey. Whereas for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B December 19, 1999 2Sm7:1-5,8-11,16; Ps 89; Rom 16:15-27; Lk 1:26-38 As we move within a week of Christmas, the Church presents to us in the Gospel the event of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Third Sunday of Advent, Year B December 12, 1999 Is 61:1-2,10-11; Lk 1:46-42; 1Thes 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8, 19-28 Many of us have spent years on this one question. Most of us have tried to help...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Friday of the First Week of Advent; Memorial of St. Francis Xavier December 3, 1999 1 Cor 9:16-19;22-23; Ps 117:1-2;Mk 16:15-20 Every so often in the history of the Church, God raises up a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis Tuesday of the 33rd Week of Ordinary Time, Year I November 16, 1999 2 Macc 6:18-31; Lk 19:1-10 Time and again, from homilies, to prayers, to banners at football games, we read that God so loved...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Tomb of St. Philip, Chiesa Nuova, Rome NAC Jubilee Apostolate Mass Solemnity of All Saints November 1, 1999 Rev 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Matt 5:1-12a How appropriate it is to celebrate this Mass inaugurating the Novena for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Immaculate Conception Chapel Monday of the 30th Week of Ordinary Time, Year I October 25, 1999 Rom 8:12-17; Lk 13:10-17 In yesterday’s Gospel, Jesus affirmed that the greatest commandment...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Altar of the Tomb, St. Peter’s Basilica Mass for Acton Institute Pilgrims Feast of St. Francis of Assisi October 4, 1999 Gal 6:14-18; Ps 15/16; Matt 11:25-30 We have the great privilege this morning to celebrate two great saints:...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Monday of the 26th Week of Ordinary Time, Year I September 27, 1999 Zech 8:1-8; Ps 102; Lk 9:46-50 We see in today’s Gospel Jesus’ response to the ambition of his followers, a theme that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, A September 5, 1999 Ez 33:7-9; Rom 13:8-10; Mt 18:15-20 “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there will I be in their midst.” So Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 22, 1999 Is 22:19-23; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20 We can break today’s Gospel down into three parts, each of which is very important...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter and Paul Parish, Fall River, MA Controversial and Often Misunderstood Issues in Catholicism Series August 16, 1999 To download a PDF of the lecture, please click below: Declaration of Nullity Outline of the Talk:...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA Assumption of Our Lady August 14-15, 1999 Vigil: 1 Chron 15:3-4,15-16; 16:1-2; 1 Cor 15:54-57; Lk 11:27-28 Day: Rev 11:19; 12:1-6,10; Ps 44; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 “Finally the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter and Paul Parish, Fall River, MA Controversial and Often Misunderstood Issues in Catholicism Series August 9, 1999 To download a PDF of the lecture, please click below: Marriage, Family and Sexuality Issues Outline of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 8, 1999 Kings 19:9-13; Ps 84; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 We learn three lessons from today’s Gospel: 1) When we keep our eyes on Jesus, all good...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 1, 1999 Is 55:1-3; Ps 144; Rom 8:35-39; Matt 14:13-21 The event we read about in today’s Gospel, the multiplication of the loaves and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 25, 1999 1Kings 3:5-12; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52 In this week’s Gospel, Jesus continues to speak to us directly in parables about what the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 18, 1999 Wis 12:13,16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 In the passages from the Gospel that the Church has given us this summer, we will hear many...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Mother of God Convent, New Bedford, MA Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth Tuesday of the 15th Week of OT, Year I July 13, 1999; Ex 2:1-15; Mt 11:20-24 In today’s Gospel, we see Jesus extraordinarily frustrated with the hardness of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry SS. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 11, 1999 Is 55:10-11; Ps 64; Rom 8:18-23; Mt 13:1-23 Today the Church invites each of us to take a soil sample of our soul. In the Gospel...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Michael’s Parish, Lowell, MA Solemnity of SS. Peter & Paul Mass of Thanksgiving Homily June 29, 1999 On July 19, 64 AD, Rome began to burn. The fire lasted nine days, destroying 10 of the 14 sections of the city of Rome...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry SS Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, MA 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A June 20, 1999 Jer 20:10-13; Ps 68; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33 Be not afraid! So Jesus said to the apostles in the Gospel and so he says to each...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Tuesday of the 10th Week of Ordinary Time, Year I June 8, 1999 2 Cor 1:18-22;Mt 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth.” So Jesus said to his disciples and so he says to us today. “And if...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Seminary Mass Thursday of Ninth Week of OT, Year I June 5, 1999 Tobit 12; 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...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Saturday of the 8th Week of OT, Year I May 29, 1999 Sir 51:12-20; Ps 19; Mk 11:27-33 In today’s readings, the Church presents to us two different attitudes of approaching knowledge...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter May 22, 1999 Acts 28:16-20,30-31; Jn 21:20-25 In today’s liturgy, the last of the Easter season, the season of the great news of the...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Holy Hour for 1999-2000 Orientation Team May 11, 1999 1 Cor 13; Mt 25:31-46 1Cor. 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Vatican Radio Mass Rome 6th Sunday of Easter, Year A May 9, 1999 Acts 8:5-8,14-17; 1 Pt 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 Beginning with this Sunday’s readings, our focus starts to change from a concentration on Jesus, our Risen Savior...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter May 4, 1999 Acts 14:19-28; Jn 14:27-31 In today’s readings, the Church presents us what at first sight appears to be a contradiction. Jesus...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Vatican Radio Mass 5th Sunday of Easter, Year A May 2, 1999 Acts 6:1-7; 1 Pt 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 Today in St. Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul is going to beatify the famous Italian Capuchin friar known throughout the world as...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter April 13, 1999 Acts 4:32-37;5:1-11; Jn 3:7-15 In today’s Gospel, Jesus says that one has to be born again from above by water and the Holy Spirit...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College NAC Holy Hour Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A March 14, 1999 Jn1:1-5;9-14 John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Seminary Mass Thursday of the 3rd Week of Lent March 11, 1999 Jer 7:23-28; Lk 11:14-23 On this much awaited day of the official beginning of the NCAA College Basketball tournament — an event...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Tuesday of Sixth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I February 16th, 1999 Gen 6, Mk 8:14-21 (Mt 16:6-13) Do you still not understand? So Jesus says to the apostles in the boat and so he says...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Saturday of the 5th Week of Ordinary Time, Year I February 13, 1999 Gen 3:9-24; Mk 8:1-10 The first reading presents to us the famous proto-evangelium. After the Fall, God prophecies...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Holy Hour 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A February 7, 1999 Mt 5:13-16 Matt. 5:13 Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has gone flat, how can its...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Friday of 2nd Week, Year I Memorial of St. Vincent, Deacon January 22, 1999 Heb 8:6-13; Mk 3:13-19; The first reading from the Letter to the Hebrews gives us an astounding promise:...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Saturday, Week I of OT, Year I January 16, 1999 Heb 4:12-16; Mk 2:13-17 “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who was tempted in...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Chapel of Assumption Pro-life Holy Hour January 15, 1999 Gospel In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome December 19, 1998 Judges 13:2-7,24-25; Lk 1:5-25 “But now you will be mute — unable to speak — until the day when these things take place, because you have not trusted my words.” Put...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Feast of St. Andrew November 30, 1998 Rom 10:8-18; Mt 4:18-22 How fortunate we are to be able to celebrate the feast of St. Andrew on this first day of Advent! St. Andrew often gets...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Domus Sancta Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome Tuesday of the 34th Week of Ordinary Time, Year II November 24, 1998 Rev 14:14-19; Lk 21:5-11 “When will this occur, Teacher, and what will be the sign it is going to happen?” It is so...
St. Charles Borromeo & The Cross, Wednesday of the 31st Week of Ordinary Time (II), November 4, 1998
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Gift of Mary Convent Missionary Sisters of Charity Wednesday of the 31st Week of Ordinary Time, Year II Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo November 4, 1998 Phil 2:2-18; Lk 14:25-33 These readings today, this Gospel, this feast...
Rev. Mr. Roger J. Landry Pontifical North American College Seminary Mass Wednesday of the 30th Week of Ordinary Time, Year II October 21, 1998 Eph 6:1-9; Lk 13:22-30 “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but...