Practical Rules for How to Live the Life in Christ
Fr. Pat expounds upon Paul’s exhortations in Romans 12:6-14.
Jan 06, 2020
All Saints Homilies
Homilies from Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon
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Members to Each Other
In Romans 12, Paul reminds us that we are all members of one body. Fr. Pat offers reflections on how we are to live with respect to one another.
Jan 06, 2020
It's Time Already To Wake From Sleep
Preaching from Romans 13, Fr. Pat looks at what Paul has to say about the political, social, and economic life of the Christian in the world.
Jan 06, 2020
The Gift and Task of Hope
In the opening verses of Romans 5, Paul says we "rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Fr. Pat examines the characteristics of Christian hope.
Jan 06, 2020
What is it Like to Be a Human Being?
Paul's explanation of what it means to be a human being as expounded in the Book of Romans should be the key to everything we do.
Jan 06, 2020
Vignettes from Luke
Using stories found only in Luke, Fr. Pat looks at features quite prominent to this Gospel. (From October 18, 2015, the Feast of St. Luke)
Jan 06, 2020
The Church's First Retreat
Fr. Pat examines the ten days between Christ's ascension and Pentecost, when the disciples were gathered in the Upper Room.
Jan 06, 2020
What's the Solution to Blindness?
It is imperative always to follow the light—never the darkness. The light is given to us in Christ our Lord and conveyed through the teaching of the Church.
Jan 06, 2020
The Meeting at the Well
The Gospel is the Word of Truth directed to the conscience of man in the presence of God. Fr. Pat explores this topic in the context of the conversation Jesus has with the Woman at the Well.
Jan 06, 2020
Revelation and Obedience
In this homily given on the Sunday of the Paralytic, Fr. Pat explores three aspects of our obedience to God in response to God’s self-revelation to us.
Jan 06, 2020
The Three-Stranded Cord
The tensile integrity of a three-stranded cord is far greater than the sum of each of the strands within it. In rhetoric and in literature, there’s something about three-ness that suggests strength, stability, and finality. Fr. Pat looks at a very famous tripodic construction from the Bible.
Jan 06, 2020
Thomas and the Crossword Puzzle
In this homily from St. Thomas Sunday, Fr. Pat considers a person with a Stoic personality facing the great puzzle presented in the books of Job and Ecclesiastes.
Jan 06, 2020
The Fertile Fringe
People come in to the Church through various ports of entry. But when they come in, they come in through the Cross. In this meditation given over the course of the four Royal Hours on Great and Holy Friday, Fr. Pat considers with us four people, one from each Gospel, who cross over the border into the sphere of faith through the event of the Cross.
Jan 06, 2020
What Does the Cross Mean to the Believer?
In this homily from Palm Sunday Fr. Pat asks what the Cross means for each believer—what it does mean and what it should mean.
Jan 06, 2020
What Did John NOT Say?
In the prologue to his Gospel, the Apostle John says “And the Word became flesh.” Fr. Pat considers three things, regarding the Word, that John did NOT say.
Jan 06, 2020
Presence of Mind
Fr. Pat talks to us about an important theme from the Epistle to the Hebrews, namely “today”, beginning with the question: “what does it mean for a human being to “be present”?
Jan 04, 2020
An Icon of Christ
In today’s very short story from Mark 2, we perceive a firm and complex portrait of Christ, who is clearly the central figure in the text—it’s all about what He sees, what He says, what He does.
Jan 04, 2020
The Invisible God Painted His Own Portrait
Fr. Pat considers with us the Icon of the invisible God from three perspectives that Christ Himself gave to us when He declared "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
Jan 04, 2020
The Mystery of Monotheism
Many religions believe there is only one God. But do they worship the same God as us? Fr. Pat looks at Biblical monotheism, what it is, and what it means to our worship.
Jan 04, 2020
What is Jesus Worth?
In our society, worth usually has some connection with what is called “market value.” However, worth or value is not ultimately an absolute thing. Worth is always “worth to whom?” Fr. Pat Reardon makes three points concerning this question.
Jan 04, 2020
The Man of the Hour
John the Baptist is a man caught in the tectonic crisis of the major shift in world history. Fr. Pat considers the three answers Jesus gives to his own question about John: "What went ye out into the wilderness to see?”
Jan 04, 2020
Coming to Terms with the Beyond
An abiding sense of the beyond is utterly native to human experience. Fr. Pat Reardon makes three points about this experience.
Jan 04, 2020
To Cut, To Give, To Establish
In Jesus’ circumcision, God’s own flesh is marked by the sign of the covenant; Jesus' circumcision was the ratification and fulfillment of the prophetic dimension of the rite. Fr. Pat discusses three verbs associated with the Hebrew word Berith (covenant).
Jan 04, 2020
The Humanization of Reality
In the Incarnation, God assumes not only human nature, but also human experience. With respect to this, Fr. Pat Reardon talks about human memory, human speech, and human resolve
Jan 04, 2020
The Song of Mary
On the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos to the Temple, Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon preaches on Mary's canticle of thanksgiving, found in Luke Chapter 1.
Dec 28, 2019
Three Visionary Perspectives
Second Corinthians has been summarized as “strength made perfect through weakness.” Preaching from 2 Corinthians 4:6-15, Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon looks at three examples from the Old Testament of God’s strength being made perfect through the weakness of His servants.
Oct 29, 2019
The Path to Hell
Fr. Pat examines three failures of the rich man in the story of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke 16. This homily was first given at All Saints Church several years ago.
May 31, 2019
The Human Inheritance
On the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, Fr. Pat reflects upon human history, the event of Jesus of Nazareth, and upon the true protagonist of this parable.
Mar 15, 2019
Confronted with the Gospel
In Matthew 19, a young man has an encounter with Christ. Fr. Pat looks at three qualities of that encounter.
Oct 22, 2018
The Proper Way to Pray
St. Luke both begins and ends his Gospel with the people God praying in the Temple. This suggests a priority for the Gospel writer. So too, the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican is story about the proper way to pray.
Feb 08, 2018
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