Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Christmas 2005 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb1:1-6; Jn1:1-18...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 23, 2005 In 1223, St. Francis of Assisi inaugurated a pious practice that in places today has become so common that many think that it always existed. This great saint, as he was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 16, 2005 Historians of the abortion debate in our country have long noted how abortion advocates have manipulated the extreme cases of rape, incest and life-endangering...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church 3rd Sunday of Advent, B December 11, 2005 Zeph 3:14-18; Philippians 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 1) We call this third Sunday of Advent “Gaudete Sunday” because every year on it the Church has us reflect upon...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 9, 2005 The Church has long had a written policy against the ordination to the priesthood of men with homosexual tendencies. Over the course of the last few decades...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday in Advent, Year B December 4, 2005 Is 40:1-5, 9-11; 2 Pet 3:8-14; Mk 1:1-8 1) On the second Sunday of Advent each year, the Church leads us on pilgrimage to the Jordan...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor December 2, 2005 Catholics are long accustomed to having Isaiah and John the Baptist prepare them, during the first two weeks of Advent, for the coming of the Lord. Theirs are the voices...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford First Sunday of Advent, Year A November 27, 2005 Is 2:1-5; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 1) Happy New Year’s Day! Today the Church, indeed, inaugurates a new year dedicated to our reliving in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 25 2005 When the pilgrims lowered the anchor in Plymouth harbor in December 1620, they were filled with hope. They had survived a perilous three-month journey on an inhospitable...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Christ the King, Year A November 20, 2005 Ezek 34:11-12, 15-17; 1Cor 15:20-26,28; Mt 25:31-46 1) Today the Church celebrates with great joy the Solemnity of Christ the King. It is the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 18, 2005 Proposition 11 of the recently concluded Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist requested that “the reasons for the relationship between celibacy and priestly ordination be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A November 13, 2005 Prov 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; 1Thess5:1-6; Mt 25:14-30 1) Every November, the Church has us focus our attention on the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 11, 2005 The recently concluded Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist proposed to Pope Benedict that the Church must do a better job explaining the “relationship between celibacy and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A November 6, 2006 Wis 6:12-16; 1Thess4:13-18; Mt 25:1-13 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus uses an image that perhaps to us might seem a little...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor November 4, 2005 Among the many issues debated and discussed during the recent Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, the topic of priestly celibacy was perhaps the most closely followed...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 30, 2005 Mal 1:14-2:2,8-10; 1Thess2:7-9,13; Mt 23:1-12 1) In today’s Gospel, with very strong language, Jesus makes clear that we...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 28, 2005 In his first trip outside the Vatican this past May, Pope Benedict visited Bari to celebrate with 300,000 Italian Catholics the feast of Corpus Christi. In his homily...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 23, 2005 Ex 22:20-26; 1Thess 1:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 1) In responding to the question of the lawyer in today’s Gospel — “what is the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 21, 2005 This December we mark the 40th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. We begin this week in the Anchor a series of articles meant not only to bring to life...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 16, 2005 Is 45:1,4-6; 1Thess1:1-5; Mt 22:15-21 1) In today’s Gospel, two groups that were archenemies conspired to try to trap Jesus. Both the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 14, 2005 During the height of the clergy sex abuse revelations in 2002, when Pope John Paul II summoned the Cardinals of the United States to Rome, they asked him to appoint a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 9, 2005 Is 25:6-10; Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20; Mt 22:1-14 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus speaks to us about the joy of heaven, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor October 7, 2005 Forty years ago, as the Second Vatican Council was coming to a close, Pope Paul VI established the Synod of Bishops as a regular organ for the successors of the apostles to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 2, 2005 Is 5:1-7; Philippians 4:6-9; Mt 21:33-43 1) What Jesus says in today’s Gospel parable has both a very important...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 30, 2005 Earlier this week in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a federal district judge began hearing arguments in a highly watched case pitting a legion of lawyers from the American...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 25, 2005 Ezek 18:25-28; Phil 2:1-11; Mt 21:28-32 1) In last Sunday’s first reading, God said to us through the prophet Isaiah...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 23, 2005 Last week’s Senate confirmation hearings for President Bush’s nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court were not really about John Roberts and his rather obvious...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 18, 2005 Is 55:6-9; Phil 1:20-24, 27; Mt 20:1-16 1) Through the mouth of the prophet Isaiah, the Lord tells us in today’s first...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 16, 2005 Those who are faithful to Jesus Christ are now being called by the successors of his apostles in the state of Massachusetts to rise up in defense of the institution of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 16, 2005 Those who are faithful to Jesus Christ are now being called by the successors of his apostles in the state of Massachusetts to rise up in defense of the institution of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 11, 2005 Sir 27:30-28:7; Rom 14:7-9; Mt 18:21-35 1) If someone hurts us, we think it’s magnanimous and generous when we give...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 9, 2005 The response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th — the fourth anniversary of which we mark this weekend — has provided the standard by which we are able to evaluate...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A September 4, 2005 Ezek 33:7-9; Rom 13:8-10; Mt 18:15-20 1) “Where two or three are gathered in my name,” Jesus says to us in today’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor September 2, 2005 When Christians think of the saving work of Jesus, many focus on the triduum during which he was crucified, died and rose again. Others concentrate on the three years of his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 28, 2005 Jer 20:7-9; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27 1) There’s a dramatic turnaround from last week’s Gospel. As we saw seven days ago...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 26, 2005 When Jesus returned to Nazareth and preached the Gospel in the synagogue that Scripture was fulfilled in their hearing, those of his native place rose up and tried to throw him off...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 21, 2005 Is 22:15, 19-23; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20 1) “O how deep are the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!” So...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 19, 2005 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said in the Gospel, “unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 18:3). That’s one of the reasons...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 14, 2005 Is 56:1,6-7; Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Mt 15:21-28 1) In order to grasp the meaning of today’s readings, we first need to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 12, 2005 In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II called contraception and abortion “fruits of the same tree.” The roots of that tree are found in a mentality, he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A August 7, 2005 1Kings 19:9,11-13; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 1) We learn three lessons from today’s Gospel: a. When we keep our eyes on Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor August 5, 2005 To believe in Jesus Christ as the Son-of-God-made-man means, minimally, to trust in what Jesus said and did. It is not possible for a true disciple to think that Jesus could have...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 31, 2005 Is 55:1-3; Rom 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21 1) In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches very clearly about what he expects from us and how...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 17, 2005 Wis 12:13,16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 1) With a hat-trick of different images in today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches us three very...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 15, 2005 On the international calendar, 7/7 has now been added to 9/11 and 3/11 as days of unforgettable infamy. The four London bombs that have left 52 people dead and scores more wounded...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 10, 2005 Is 55:10-11; Rom 8: 18-23; Mt 13:1-23 1) By the parable of the sower and the seed in today’s Gospel, Jesus describes four types...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Landing Editorial The Anchor July 8, 2005 Right at the beginning of the extended weekend on which Americans were celebrating the 229th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A July 2, 2005 Zech 9:9-10; Rom 8:9, 11-13; Mt 11:25-30 1) In coming to Mass today, you probably did not anticipate that you were about to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor July 1, 2005 When I began this column seven months ago, I took as its theme Jesus’ words to St. Peter, “Put out into the deep and lower your nets for a catch” (Lk 5:4). This was the imperative...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 26, 2005 2Kings 4:8-11,14-16; Rom 6:3-4,8-11; Mt 10:37-42 1) In today’s second reading, St. Paul describes the incredible reality of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 24, 2005 “Among those born of women, no one is greater than John the Baptist” (Lk 7:28 ). Truth incarnate once paid that supreme compliment, which is why the Church founded by Him...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 19, 2005 Jer 20:10-13; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33 1) There’s a paradox in today’s Gospel. On the one hand, Jesus tells us not to be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 17, 2005 Pope Benedict has picked up right where his predecessor left off. Pope John Paul II spent most of his priesthood, and all of his pontificate, trying to strengthen the Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 12, 2005 Ex 19:2-6; Rom 5:6-11; Mt 9:36-10:8 1) Today’s readings focus on two essential and related elements: ELECTION by God of group of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 10, 2005 It was similar to when the Red Sox won the World Series. A huge crowd. Jubilation and standing ovations. Lots of kids in uniforms jubilantly giving each other high fives. Grown men...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A June 5, 2005 Hos 6:3-6; Rom 4:18-25; Mt 9:9-13 1) There’s an amazing encounter in today’s Gospel between God and a notorious sinner. In it...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 3, 2005 Because of the Incarnation, every part of Jesus’ body is sacred. We have never celebrated the feast of the Lord’s sacred brain, however, even though through it the Word...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Corpus Christi, Year A May 29, 2005 Deut 8:2-3, 14-16; 1Cor10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58 1) On this Solemnity of Corpus Christi one year ago, Pope John Paul II declared that the Church would...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor May 27, 2005 Since 1868, Americans have come together at the end of May to remember and honor those who have given their lives to protect and defend us, who have paid the supreme sacrifice so that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Trinity Sunday, Year A May 22, 2005 Ex 34:4-6, 8-9; 2 Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18 1) Today we celebrate the feast of who God is. Every Sunday is, in a very real sense, dedicated to God and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 20, 2005 One month ago today, on the day after his election as the successor of St. Peter, Pope Benedict XVI re-assembled the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, celebrated together with them the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Pentecost Sunday May 15, 2005 Acts 2:1-11; 1Cor12:3-7,12-13; Rom 8:8-17; Jn 20:19-23; Jn 14:15-16,23-26 1) 53 days ago, the apostles were all gathered together in the Upper Room. Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 13, 2005 From the time I was a boy, I have always been fascinated by the feast of Pentecost. When I was in grammar school, the wonder had to do with the fact that Pentecost is the “birthday of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A May 8, 2005 Acts 1:12-14; 1Pet 4:13-16; Jn 17:1-11 1) After the Ascension, as we read in the first reading, the apostles all gathered around Mary and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 6, 2005 Prior to the papal conclave, I was asked hundreds of times by parishioners, friends, guys at the health club, and reporters, who I thought the next Pope would be. My staple response —...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Ascension, Year A May 5, 2005 Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20 1) We read at the beginning of today’s Gospel that, when the eleven disciples — meaning APOSTLES — went to Galilee and saw...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A May 1, 2005 Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; 1Pet 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 1) Ten years ago this October, our great deceased Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, addressed the United...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 29, 2005 “Dear Brothers and Sisters, after the great John Paul II, the Cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord’s vineyard.” These were the first words of our new Holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A April 24, 2005 Acts 6:1-7; 1Pet2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 1) Early this morning the eyes of the world were all fixed on St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican where the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 22, 2005 Almost two years before the Cardinal electors assembled in the Sistine Chapel to discern, with God’s help, the one to whom they should pass the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A April 17, 2005 Acts 2:14, 36-41; 1Pet2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 1) The Fourth Sunday of Easter each year is called Good Shepherd Sunday, because on this day the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 15, 2005 On Monday, 115 Cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel and begin their work of discerning, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the one God the Father will reveal as the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday of Easter, Year A April 10, 2005 Acts 2:14,22-28; 1Pet 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35 1) Two days ago, we witnessed the largest funeral in human history. Four million people attended. Up...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor Special Edition Upon the Death of Pope John Paul II April 9, 2005 If there were ever any doubt, Pope John Paul II’s funeral was evidence of how extraordinarily important a figure he was within the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 8, 2005 On the walls to the right and left of the tabernacle in Pope John Paul II’s private chapel in the Vatican, there are large basrelief sculptures of the deaths of Saints Peter and Paul...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 1, 2005 Catholics can easily recall when Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist. He did it during the first Mass, which began during the Last Supper with the words of consecration...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Easter Sunday March 27, 2005 Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 1) Today we mark, with Christians throughout the world, the greatest day and most important event in all of history...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 25, 2005 No greater homily has ever been given than the one Jesus preaches today, nailed to his perpendicular pulpit. It consists of a mere seven sentences, spread over the span of three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Good Friday March 25, 2005 Is 52:13-53:12; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 1) On the Cross today, Jesus shouted the dramatic words, “It is finished!” The question is: What does this “it”...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Palm Sunday, Year A March 20, 2005 Mt 21:1-11; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14-27:66 1) This Palm Sunday Liturgy is framed by two expressions. The first is “Hosanna,” which was shouted at...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 18, 2005 Next week we mark the tenth anniversary of the papal encyclical Evangelium Vitae, which may be the most important and prophetic document of John Paul II’s pontificate. Perhaps more...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A March 13, 2005 Ezek 37:12-14; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 1) The episode of Jesus’ raising Lazarus from the dead is so rich that whole retreats could be preached upon...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 11, 2005 Last month the last of the three Fatima visionaries, Sr. Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Sacred Heart, better known by her baptismal name, Lucia dos Santos, died at age 97. As long as...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A March 6, 2005 1Sam 16:1,6-7,10-13; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 1) In this dramatic scene from today’s Gospel, Jesus does something different than he did in other four...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 4, 2005 Each year of his pontificate, the Holy Father has written a Lenten message to guide and inspire Catholics throughout the world better to understand and live the meaning of this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday of Lent, Year A February 27, 2005 Ex 17:3-7; Rom 5:1-2,5-8; Jn 4:5-42 1) Jesus, the Good Shepherd, promised that he would leave all of his other sheep behind and go in search of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor February 25, 2005 Last March, I saw one of the real signs of the “new springtime” in the Church to which Pope John Paul II frequently refers. It was the annual Catholic Men’s Conference for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Second Sunday of Lent, Year A February 20, 2005 Gen 12:1-4; 2Tim1:8-10; Mt 17:1-9 1) Today the Lord takes Peter, James and John up Mt. Tabor and all of us in the Church go with them. There...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 18, 2005 Scripture scholars often describe the four Gospels as “passion accounts with very long introductions.” This is because the preaching of the apostles — and the earliest Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA First Sunday of Lent, Year A February 13, 2005 Gen 2:7-9, 3:1-7; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11 1) At the end of today’s second reading, St. Paul summarizes the principle message of all three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 11, 2005 Lent is a forty day uphill pilgrimage with Jesus. Jesus starts by taking us, on the first Sunday, to a desert mountain where he teaches us by example how to say no to the devil’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Ash Wednesday February 9, 2005 Joel 2:12-18; 2Cor5:20-6:2; Mt6:1-6,16-18 1) Each of you in a few minutes will come up to receive ashes on your forehead and an instruction. That instruction...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A February 6, 2005 Is 58:7-10; 1Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 1) Over the past two weeks, as we’ve gotten ready for tonight’s Super Bowl, there has been a lot of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 4, 2005 “What would become of the world if there were no religious?” That’s the question St. Teresa of Avila asked aloud in her 16th century autobiography. It’s also the question Pope...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A January 30, 2005 Zeph 2:3,3:12-13; 1Cor1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12 1) The greatest homily Jesus ever preached was when he mounted the pulpit of the Cross and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 28, 2005 The celebration of Catholic Schools Week causes us to reflect on the blessing of a Catholic education and why it is worth the many sacrifices — from parents, teachers, parish...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A January 23, 2005 Is 8:23-9:3; 1Cor 1:10-13, 17; Mt 4:12-23 1) We are now within the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which occurs every year between...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 21, 2005 Thirteen years ago I went to jail for the first time, to interview a pro-life hero for a magazine I had helped to found in college. Bill Cotter had been sentenced to two-and-a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A January 16, 2005 Is 49:3,5-6; 1Cor 1:1-3; Jn 1:29-34 1) There’s a truly remarkable phrase in today’s Gospel, that occurs not once but twice. Sometimes...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 14, 2005 Right before Christmas, as he met with his chief collaborators in the Roman Curia, Pope John Paul II made a statement that caught many in the media — and in the Church — off-guard...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Baptism of the Lord, Year A January 8-9, 2005 Is 42:1-4, 6-7; Acts 10:34-38; Mt 3:13-17 1) Last Sunday, we celebrated the Lord’s epiphany as light to all nations, represented by the wise...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 7, 2005 After John the Baptist had pointed out Jesus as the Lamb of God, St. Andrew and a friend ran after Jesus and spent the rest of the afternoon with him. Then Andrew went to find his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA Epiphany of the Lord January 2, 2005 Is 60:1-6; Eph3:2-3,5-6; Mt2:1-12 1) We celebrate today the Lord’s “Epiphany,” the Greek word for his “manifestation” to all the nations. In today’s...