Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B October 20, 2024 Is 53:10-11, Ps 33, Heb 4:14-16, Mk 10:35-45 To listen to an audio recording of the homily, please click below: To...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Clergy Days for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia St. Helen Church, Blue Bell Pennsylvania October 10, 2024 To listen to an audio recording of the first of two clergy days, please click below: To download a PDF of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Columbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan Advent Day of Recollection for Columbia Students and the Leonine Forum Saturday of the First Week of Advent December 3, 2022 Is 30:19-21.23-26, Ps 147, Mt 9:35-1:1.5-8...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Leonine Forum Lenten Day of Recollection Church of the Holy Family, Manhattan First Saturday of Lent 400th Anniversary of the Canonization of Saints Isidore the Farmer, Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila and Philip...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 15, 2021 We are fast approaching the 400th anniversary of the most impressive canonization in the history of the Church, which took place March 12, 1622. Pope Gregory XV had the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 25, 2021 One of the things I love to do in New York City is leading walking pilgrimages to the most beautiful Churches in Manhattan. I take friends from out of town, interns and staff...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Sacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Thursday of the First Week of Advent Memorial of St. Francis Xavier December 3, 2020 Is 26:1-6, Ps 118, Mt 7:21.24-27 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily...
Fr. Roger J. LandryVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, ManhattanTuesday of the First Week of Advent Memorial of St. Francis Xavier December 3, 2019Is 11:1-10, Ps 72, Lk 10:21-24 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 28, 2019 Today is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and, since 2002, the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests. It’s a day on which, pondering the divine and human...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Visitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Monday of the First Week of Advent December 3, 2018 Is 2:1-5, Ps 122, Mt 8:5-11 To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below: The following...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 23, 2016 The most abrupt and shocking transition in the Church’s liturgical calendar occurs from December 25th to 26th, when the Church pivots from celebrating the birth of Jesus...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Visitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Saturday of the First Week of Advent December 3, 2016 Is 30:19-21.23-26, Ps 147, Mt 9:35-1:1.5-8 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below: ...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Visitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Thursday of the First Week of Advent Memorial of St. Francis Xavier December 3, 2015 Is 26:1-6, Ps 118, Mt 7:21.24-27 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Sacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola July 31, 2015 Lev 23:1.4-11.15-16.27.34-37, Ps 81, Mt 13:54-58 To listen to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat for the Priests of the Diocese of Lincoln Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat Center, Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury Mass for the Deceased...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Retreat for the Priests of the Diocese of Lincoln Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat Center, Lincoln, Nebraska Eighth Tuesday of Ordinary Time, Year I Memorial of St. Philip Neri in the 500th Anniversary Year of his Birth May 26...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 20, 2015 One of the most important practices in a plan of life, as we discussed last week, is daily Mass. It’s not possible, however, for everyone to attend Mass each day because of our...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Mater Ecclesiae College, Greenville, RI Wednesday of the First Week in Advent Memorial of St. Francis Xavier Renewal of the Temporary Profession of Mirianna Sternhagen December 3, 2014 Is 25:6-10, Ps 23, Mt 15:29-37 To...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA Wednesday of the First Week of Advent Memorial of St. Francis Xavier December 3, 2014 Is 25:6-10, Ps 23, Mt 15:29-37 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent Memorial of St. Francis Xavier December 3, 2013 Is 11:1-10, Ps 72, Lk 10:21-24 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
Five Figures of the Passion
Lenten Night of Recollection
St. Francis Xavier Parish, Acushnet, MA
March 13, 2012
Beholding Our Mother
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Beholding our Mother
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Parish Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady December 8, 2010 Gen 3:9-15, 20; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 The following text guided today’s homily: FIAT On this great feast day, we celebrate...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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...