Sunday Thoughts From Fr. Edward Looney

Each year, what do you notice for the first time or anew in the passion. For me, this year it was the three Simons.

St. Patrick knew who His God was and how to pray. As people celebrate him throughout the world, today we can pray like Patrick.

In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney preaches on how God sends us the right person, at the right time, with the right message. It's something he has done since the time of the Bible and still does even today!

In today's gospel, Jesus cleanses the temple of money changers and sellers. If he entered our homes today, what would we he cleanse. Let that be a question you with sit with in prayer today.

In this weekend’s homily, Fr. Edward explains prayer as a conversation with God using the example of the Transfiguration and the requested sacrifice of Isaac.

Fr. Edward Looney explains the voice of Satan and how he tempts us to sin. Learn to recognize his voice, so you can reject and instead follow the voice of the Good Shepherd.

In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney shares how he is using this Lent to return to some of the basics of the spiritual life in his prayer and devotion.

In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes alongside the healing of the Leper and how it proposes a mystery in God's will regarding the grace of healings.

In this reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on how Jesus’s mission of healing and preaching has continued through the Church. #SundayMass #homily

In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on the two different accounts of the calling of Andrew and Simon that are found in the gospels of John and Mark. He then goes on to explain what the calling in Mark’s Gospel might mean for us today. 

In this homily, Fr. Looney focuses on the three movements of John 1:33-42: 1. What are you looking for? 2. Come and see. 3. We have found the Messiah.

When have you felt wonder and awe like the magi? It could and should happen at every Mass.

Meditate on these aspects of Mary’s motherhood.

The transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge can be our story with Jesus this Christmas.

Here the Word became flesh. Mary is a dwelling place of God’s divinity. Can we be too?

In a season about the coming of Jesus, what about the Holy Spirit?

Fr. Edward reflects on the question of St Peter: What type of person am I supposed to be?

Fr. Edward reflects on Mary as daughter, mother, and spouse.

What is the season Advent about and what should I do during these holy days? The prophet Isaiah has some ideas in our first reading this weekend.

Sometimes we might be like the nine lepers, ungrateful, but over time when we realize God at work, we become grateful.