Didde Center Homily Podcasts

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Preached at Blessed Sacrament Church, 8 August 2021 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted... to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- ... the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit-- that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified." Isaiah 61:1,3 Today's episode of Reading Rainbow mentioned the following books: Come, Be My Light, by St. Teresa of Calcutta Blessed Miguel Pro, by Ann Ball Stages on the Road, by Sigrid Undset Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness, by Warren Carroll Homily delivered at Christ the King Catholic Church, 4 July 2021 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Preached at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church 27 June 2021 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

This homily revisits a set of reflections on fatherhood first given in 2015. I find the truths here worth perennial contemplation.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

The Scriptures this Sunday are full of imagery of leafy gardens and strong, branching trees. These are the images the Scriptures use for living well ordered lives--which is precisely the goal of "Ordinary Time," which is a bit of a misnomer. Better to call it "ordered time," to evoke the ordering of our lives around the sacred mysteries celebrated in Christmas and Easter, Corpus Christ and the Holy Trinity.  As we pass from the heights of celebration, let's make good resolutions to follow through on the inspirations and consolations we received in those transformative seasons.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

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May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, we may look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Preached at Christ the King Church, the Octave of Easter, 2021 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Under the dispensation of the Spirit all things were to become new and to be reversed. Strength, numbers, wealth, philosophy, eloquence, craft, experience of life, knowledge of human nature, these are the means by which worldly men have ever gained the world. But in that kingdom which Christ has set up, all is contrariwise." --Saint John Henry Newman, to whom the majority of the thoughts in this homily are to be attributed, Deo gratias. https://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume6/sermon22.html

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, All I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.

This homily was preached at Christ the King at the opening Mass for our faculty formation days, in which a representative of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education presented to us on the liberal arts pedagogy being implemented at Christ the King Catholic School. Please forgive my errata on the details of Polycarp's life and martyrdom.

"What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun — it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every good Christian ought to be more ready to give a favorable interpretation to another's statement than to condemn it. But if he cannot do so, let him ask how the other understands it. And if the latter understands it badly, let the former correct him with love. If that does not suffice, let the Christian try all suitable ways to bring the other to a correct interpretation so that he may be saved." Saint Ignatius Loyola

“Christ is always present in his Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the person of his minister, but especially under the Eucharistic species…, in the sacraments…, in his word…, and when the Church prays and sings…. Rightly, then, the liturgy is considered as an exercise of the priestly office of Jesus Christ." --The Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium “What was visible in our Savior has passed over into his sacraments.” --Saint Leo the Great

Christmas joy that lasts.

This homily was delivered in Spanish. Yo pasé unas semanas meditanto y escribiendo este retrato de palabras para nuestras familias de la escuela Christ the King Clasiscal, y me gustaría compartirlo con ustedes como meditación sobre la importancia y dignidad de la familia.

Avoid the peddlers of outrage and despair. Do not retreat into a Stoic withdrawal and observe with grim satisfaction as the world crumbles about you. Cultivate the hope of the saints that nothing given to God is given in vain. I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God. (Isaiah 49:4)

You can view All or Nothing (the documentary about Sister Clare Crockett mentioned in today's homily) by clicking this link or by searching YouTube for the title.