Father Daniel‘s Homilies
2016-06
Episodes
Sunday Jun 19, 2016
Saturday Jun 18, 2016
Saturday Jun 18, 2016
Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Saturday Jun 18, 2016
Saturday Jun 18, 2016
Saturday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
Jesus
teaches His disciples “You cannot serve God and Mammon. Therefore I tell you,
do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body,
what you will wear.” “But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given you besides.”
Fr.
O’Mullane preaches on Christ’s very basic command, and exhorts us to truly
trust in Christ’s command, “do not worry about your life.” Though mammon may
seem to provide security, money does not provide what God provides. If we
hesitate to follow Christ’s command on our own, only look to Mary, who, though
knowing of the suffering that she would endure, nevertheless lived happily and joyously
day to day.
Friday Jun 17, 2016
Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Friday Jun 17, 2016
Friday Jun 17, 2016
Friday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
Christ
teaches His disciples to “store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is,
there also will your heart be.”
Fr.
O’Mullane preaches on what this image that Our Lord gives us means. It does not
mean investing in the afterlife, but rather, investing in Heaven means
investing in God Himself. Christ, in the Gospel, then, is continuing His
message that God must be absolutely central to our lives. So too with what we
choose to look at. “The lamp of the body is the eye.” We must fix our gaze on
God, and invest in Him, that our treasure might last.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Wednesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
Christteaches about prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. “Take care not to performrighteous deeds that people may see them; otherwise, you will have norecompense from your heavenly Father.”
Fr.O’Mullane preaches about the grave importance of our motivations whenever weperform acts of prayer, fasting, or almsgiving. Jesus gives these practices tous, and assumes that we will continue them. We must, however, perform the actsonly for God. Those who perform these acts for the purpose of winning theadmiration of men, then they have no reward with God. Offer these acts for Godalone, “And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.”
Monday Jun 13, 2016
Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Monday Jun 13, 2016
Monday Jun 13, 2016
Monday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
Christ
continues His sermon with more difficult sayings; “But I say to you, offer no
resistance to one who is evil.”
Fr.
O’Mullane preaches that they are difficult sayings, partly because we do not understand
the images. First, do we actually live this way? It is not optional for
Christians. But Christ commands these somewhat ridiculous sounding things, not
for us to be doormats, but to force our enemies to recognize our human dignity
by doing something shocking. This is to follow Jesus, all the way to the cross.
Only living as Jesus did, will we be given the strength to do the work we have
here in Boonton.
Sunday Jun 12, 2016
Saturday Jun 11, 2016
Friday Jun 10, 2016
Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
Friday Jun 10, 2016
Friday Jun 10, 2016
Friday of the Tenth Week Of Ordinary Time
Misdirected Passion; They Seek to Take My Life
In this homily Fr. O’Mullane clarifies when the passion that is good and natural becomes a horrid thing. “Marriage and the family ought to be a place of truth and love, but we know how destructive our passions can be.” When the anger or lust overcome us, that’s when we are consumed in that all encompassing fire, the fire of Hell. We must learn to walk the line with Jesus and accept His invitation to live as He has.
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
Thursday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time
Christ
continues the Sermon on the Mount, telling the disciples they must be more
righteous than the Pharisees to enter Heaven. He then proceeds to teach about
anger; those who are angry “will be liable to fiery Gehenna.”
Fr.
Daniel preaches on the importance of reconciliation. What prevents us from
being reconciled one to another is anger, often illegitimate, which is a
“smoldering trash heap.” We must follow Christ, who certainly did have a reason
to be angry, and set anger aside, for we have no guarantee, in God’s court of
perfect justice, that our anger is justified.