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 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 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 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 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 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...