Sunday Thoughts From Fr. Edward Looney

Advent prepares for Christmas. Lent for Easter. And Easter for the Ascension. Now the Ascension prepares us for Jesus’s return.

The statements of Jesus often have promises. Todays promise is he won’t leave us orphans. In this homily Fr Looney explains how this is true.

Father Edward isn’t preaching this Sunday but he just preached at the National Shrine of Mother Cabrini on Thursday. Enjoy this homily from Fr Looney on your personal exhortation or testament of faith.

On first communion weekend, Fr. Edward reflects on how Fulton Sheen went from being a sheep to a shepherd and how he listened for the voice of the good shepherd. 

We have a before and an after. Let’s not hold someone’s past against them after they encounter Jesus in Word and Sacrament.

Fr. Edward reflects on the moving of the apostles and missionaries to spread the faith.

The past two Sundays, the gospels told us Jesus in a loud voice cried out. Could it be that God the Father called out to Jesus to arise from the grave. How is God asking you to cry out in a loud voice?

Good Friday is a day for meditation on Christ’s passion and death. But it should be the subject of meditation for us throughout the year.

Father Edward reflects about the priests who influenced his early faith life.

During Holy Week will you confess who Jesus is?

In this different style of homily, Fr. Looney leads a prayerful reflection over one sentence from the first reading.

The Samaritan Woman has a profound experience with Jesus. We can have that too. But after we do, then what happens? How should I live? What’s my response?

Jesus called his apostles friends. And in the Transfiguration he shares an experience with three of them. In this homily Fr Looney shares about the friendships of Jesus and how they speak to us during the season of Lent.

We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us more in our life and scrutinize our actions and decisions.

Let’s talk about your faith. Who did you get your faith from? Why do you believe? In whom do you believe?

Peter, Andrew, James, and John left everything to follow Jesus. Missionaries did the same. What about you? What’s holding you back?

John the Baptist tells his followers to Behold the Lamb of God. In this homily, Fr. Looney reflects on what it means to behold especially in relation to the Eucharist.

Christmas day is said to be the inauguration of the fullness of divine worship. And the feast of the Epiphany, the three magi teach us something more about how to worship God. 

Curious how to begin a devotion to Mary? Fr. Edward offers three tips to do just that.

Fr. Edward shares about the life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and reflects on his poem Christmas Bells.