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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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 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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...