Homily

https://youtu.be/gRsaYDSYYTw It’s a rare thing that St. John the Lateran is celebrated on a Sunday. It’s the solemnity. I want to tell you about how this came to be a feast day and the importance of what it meant for…

https://youtu.be/0wwuBKJ-RV8 There was a couple from Cleveland who was celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, and they kind of forget, it crept up on them, and they didn’t really make plans…

https://youtu.be/zbhPDtbF5-A A couple of weeks ago on our Tuesday night teaching, we had a special teaching event for grandparents. The topic of the teaching night was how to hand on…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdCop7cnk0&t=136s Small is the fire within me, and the flame of my love flickers low. It’s a phrase I came across in my spiritual readings in the last couple of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54o-eKM47E I need a volunteer, and I need someone that doesn't know how to play piano. Is there anybody that does not know how to play piano? Seriously, I need…

https://www.youtube.com/live/V-Q9Eq-JNCA?si=Ouej72GR3ZxIS7cK Do you know that we are at war? I’m not talking about the war of Ukraine and Russia, or Israel and Palestine. But we, each and every one of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV3bFsSkxJ8 We are going to play a quick game of name that movie (father poses and a parishioner answers). “Karate Kid.” See that was easy. I'm a child of the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWSooTvJ3NI Muddy, bloody and fiery. Muddy, bloody, and fiery is the way to holiness. Often times we think of holiness as this pure white, and that’s the result, but the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G94kTe1bxj0 Three years ago, to this very day, I got a call from the bishop’s office. He called and said, “Would you mind going to Saint Matthias in Parma? I…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSEAo--XhII Today I’d like to begin with a famous quote from one of the living legends of comedy of my era. I want to see if you can guess who…