Fr. Roger J. LandryColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, ManhattanWednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen April 24, 2024Acts 12:24-13:5, Ps 67, Jn 12:44-50 To listen to an audio recording of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry National Catholic Register April 15, 2022 One of the classic practices of Catholic spirituality is the particular exam, which is a positive resolution to do something concrete to grow in a specific virtue or eliminate a vice or...
Fr. Roger J. Landry UN (Staff Recreation Council) Catholic Club “Making the Most of the Fullness of Time” Virtual Presentation November 4, 2021 To watch a video recording of the conference, please click below: To listen to an...
Fr. Roger J. LandryVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, ManhattanWednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter Memorial of St. Louis de Montfort, St. Peter Chanel, and St. Gianna Beretta Molla April 28, 2021Acts 12:24-13:5, Ps 67, Jn 12:44-50 ...
Fr. Roger J. LandryVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, ManhattanWednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter May 6, 2020Acts 12:24-13:5, Ps 67, Jn 12:44-50 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below: The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry “Seeking the Things That Are Above: Living Easter at the Time of Covid-19” UN Staff Recreation Council Catholic Club April 15, 2020 To watch video recording of today’s presentation, please click below: ...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Easter Sunday April 12, 2020 Acts 10:34.37-43, Ps 118, Col 3:1-4, Jn 20:1-9 To listen to an audio recording of today’s Mass, please click below: The following text guided today’s homily: This Easter has...
Fr. Roger J. Landry National Catholic Register Easter Edition Submitted: March 26, 2020 Few would have foreseen, as we packed into pews on Ash Wednesday, the Lent we had in store: that our fast would become an involuntary one from the Living Bread...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor April 3, 2020 This Lent has been one few of us will ever forget. On Ash Wednesday, we were marked with ashes and reminded that we are dust and unto dust we shall return. Few of us realized just...
Fr. Roger J. LandryVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, ManhattanWednesday of the Fourth Week of EasterMemorial of St. Isidore the FarmerActs 12:24-13:5, Ps 67, Jn 12:44-50 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Our Lady of Victory Church, Manhattan Divine Mercy Sunday Holy Hour Reflection April 28, 2019 To listen to the reflection during the Holy Hour, please click below: The following text guided the meditation: ...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Visitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai May 10, 2017 Acts 12:24-13:5, Ps 67, Jn 12:44-50 To listen to today’s homily, please...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Chapel of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations Easter Sunday April 16, 2017 Acts 10:34.37-43, Ps 118, Col 3:1-4, Jn 20:1-9 Today’s homily was not recorded. The following text guided...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Visitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter April 20, 2016 Acts 12:24-13:5, Ps 67, Jn 12:44-50 To listen to today’s homily, please click below: The following...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor April 17, 2015 Last week we considered the Angelus, one of the most effective of all the spiritual practices in a plan of life to help maintain a sense of God’s presence as we ponder in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Sacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY Easter Sunday April 5, 2015 Acts 10:34.37-43, Ps 118, Col 3:1-4, Jn 20:1-9 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below: The...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Sacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY Easter Vigil 2015 April 4, 2015 Gen 1:1-2:2, Ps 104, Gen 22:1-18, Ps 16, Ex 14:15-15:1-6.17-18, Is 54:5-14, Ps 30, Is 55:1-11, Is 12:2-6, Bar 3:9-15. 32, Ps 19, Ez 36:16...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor March 27, 2015 In a Plan of Life, the spiritual game plan designed to form us toward holiness, there are practices recommended to be done at different frequencies, daily, weekly, monthly...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA Easter Sunday April 20, 2014 Acts 10:34.37-43, Ps 118, Col 3:1-4, Jn 20:1-9 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below: The following is the text that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA Easter Vigil 2014 April 19, 2014 Gen 1:1-2:2, Ps 104, Gen 22:1-18, Ps 16, Ex 14:15-15:1-6.17-18, Is 54:5-14, Ps 30, Is 55:1-11, Is 12:2-6, Bar 3:9-15. 32, Ps 19, Ez 36:16-28, Ps 42, Rom 6:3...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year B May 28, 2006 Acts 1:15-17,20-26; 1John4:11-16; Jn 17:11-19 1) We are now within the novena between the Lord’s Ascension and Pentecost Sunday. On...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B May 21, 2006 Acts 10:25-26,34-35,44-48; 1 Jn 4:7-10; Jn 15:9-17 1) Saint Jerome, one of the great fathers of the Church, tells us that while Saint John...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year B May 7, 2006 Acts 4:8-12; 1John3:1-2; John10:11-18 1) In today’s Gospel, Christ tells us clearly who he is and how important we are to him. “I am the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...