Love & Light
In the Transfiguration, the divinity of Jesus shown forth brightly! By God's grace, our living participatino in the life of God's love is meant to shine His light brightly in this world...
Mar 21, 2019•17 min
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Hi! This is Fr. Patrick Gonyeau, a priest in the Archdiocese of Detroit, and I'd love to share with you the Word of God. I was once an agnostic and dared God to show me He was real...and the rest is history. There is no greater gift that we can receive than Jesus Christ who brings us the joy of salvation! It is my hope and prayer that these homilies bring to you and those you share them with the joy of knowing and loving Jesus...who is calling all of us!
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Episodes
A Blueprint for Victory
In the temptation in the desert (Luke 4), Jesus gives us a blueprint to follow for victory over temptations...
Mar 11, 2019•19 min
Reconciling Accounts
As the season of Lent begins, Jesus invites us into a reconciliation of accounts and a renewal in identity...
Mar 07, 2019•14 min
Blessed
"Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is in the Lord. He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream..."(Jeremiah 17:7-8)
Feb 18, 2019•14 min
What's Possible
In His hometown synagogue Jesus declared "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me." The Holy Spirit has been poured into us (Romans 5:5), making us the mystical body of Christ on earth. The Lord is inviting us in these days of the New Evangelization to consider what we carry and what is truly possible as anointed sons and daughters of God...
Jan 28, 2019•14 min
Life in Love
The wedding feast at Cana points us to the eternal wedding feast that we are blessed to enjoy even now...
Jan 21, 2019•19 min
The Sweet Spot
Your place in the Holy Family is your sweet spot...your identity confirmed in communion with God, forth from which flows "the good life" of your life in Christ.
Dec 30, 2018•17 min
Peace
In the prophet Micah's prophecy about the coming messiah Jesus, he declares "He shall be peace." After His resurrection, Jesus declared to his disciples "peace I leave you, my peace I give you." The gift of Christmas is Jesus...and living in His peace.
Dec 24, 2018•12 min
Joy
The infectious, healing, delightful joy of the Lord flows from our awareness of God's presence and shines the light of God's love to this world. Lord...teach us & equip us with the grace to rejoice always in your presence! (Phil 4:4)
Dec 17, 2018•14 min
Ardent Desire
As we enter into the season of advent, the Lord is stirring us with a fresh desire for more of Him in our lives...
Dec 04, 2018•16 min
Trust the Nudge
On this feast of Christ the King we remember Jesus said, "the Kingdom of God is among you" (Lk 17:21) As we Unleash the Gospel in POWER it's key to grow in docility to the Holy Spirit... to trust the nudge !
Nov 26, 2018•13 min
Dreaming Big
As we consider the impact of the Unleash the Gospel Movement on our parish, we dream big! We long for, and pursue ,a life as disciples & a parish that looks more like what we see in the Gospels & Acts of the Apostles than what we've experienced so far...
Nov 19, 2018•16 min
Time to Unleash
We enter into the powerful encounter between an understanding scribe & Jesus, which led to Jesus telling the scribe, "you are not far from the kingdom of God." (Mk 12:34) As disciples who have been transferred to the kingdom of the Beloved Son (Col 1:13), the Church of Detroit is hungry to embrace the New Evangelization, and to unleash the gospel like never before...
Nov 05, 2018•15 min
A Fresh Yes
In chapter 10 of the Gospel of Mark, we hear of the encounter between Jesus and a rich man who asked Jesus, "what must I do to inherit eternal life." Mark tells us that Jesus looked at the man with love (V21). Jesus gazes on each of us with perfect love, fixing our eyes on Him and daily renewing our "yes" sets us free.
Oct 15, 2018•9 min
Let it Flow
At a Generations of Faith Sunday at Corpus Christi in Detroit, with "The Call to Holiness" being the theme, we reflect on letting God's love flow through us...
Oct 11, 2018•10 min
Healing Love
In Chapter 7 of Mark's Gospel, we read of the wonderful healing of the man who was deaf and mute. In this reflection, we consider how the Lord heals us in His perfect love, and how we can share His healing love with others.
Sep 10, 2018•20 min
Intimacy & Worship
In chapter 7 of the gospel of Mark, we hear Jesus criticize some of the Pharisees & Scribes with words first delivered through the prophet Isaiah, "this people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, in vain do they worship me." This reflection looks at the intimate and transformational power of the worship of God that Jesus speaks of in John 4:23 "The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father...
Sep 03, 2018•16 min
To Whom Shall We Go?
Bishop Fulton Sheen once said, "the greatest love story of all time is contained in a little white host." This reflection takes a close look at the famous "bread of life" discourse of Jesus in the Synagogue in Capernaum. We're meant to live in this love story, to be renewed in it day in and day out, and most spectacularly, by the Eucharist. No matter what is happening in our lives, world and even Church...through the Eucharist Jesus continues to strengthen us to share the very conviction of St. ...
Aug 27, 2018•21 min
Taste & See
Many a time we've heard the famous passage from Psalm 34:9 "taste and see the goodness of the Lord." Powerful words indeed...inviting us to LIVE for God's glory, imbued with God's presence.
Aug 13, 2018•13 min
Living with Substance
A visit to His hometown synagogue in Nazareth left Jesus amazed at the lack of faith among the people. His desire for us, is that our faith would be what keeps us in contact with His presence enabling us live with substance.
Jul 09, 2018•15 min
Our Lives with Jesus
Beginning a new assignment at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Detroit, Fr. Patrick shares his personal testimony and invites the listeners into the experience of tasting the saving love of Jesus anew in their lives by taking the time to record their own personal testimonies...
Jul 02, 2018•14 min
Growing in the Prophetic
Baptism plunges us into God, filling us with God's Holy Spirit and making us, as St. Peter describes "a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." (1 Peter 2:9) In this verse we can see a biblical root for the teaching that we are baptized "priest, prophet & king". This reflection touches on the priestly and kingly dimensions of Christian life, and then focuses on the prophetic di...
Jun 25, 2018•15 min
Sin & Love
After Original Sin, Adam went from divine intimacy with God to hiding from God; afraid of His voice and filled with fear, tension, shame and division. The price paid for our healing was the cross, the debt we owe is love...
Jun 11, 2018•20 min
The Real Presence
At the last supper, Jesus gave the Church the gift of the Eucharist and the priesthood. We take a look at how the Eucharist really becomes the body and blood of Jesus today, why He continues to give us this gift, and what happens in us as a result of this gift.
Jun 04, 2018•22 min
Aligned with Reality
Our understanding of who God is, what God is like and how God sees us has a profound impact on the way we live.
May 28, 2018•15 min
The Ascension, Motherhood & Prepping for Pentecost
On Ascension Sunday, we look at the big picture of the Ascension, how shortly thereafter the Holy Spirit would flow forth in the New Covenant at Pentecost. We look at the flow of God's love in the design of Motherhood. We consider the hour at hand in the days leading up to Pentecost and God's invitation to more...
May 14, 2018•22 min
No Longer a Slave to Fear
The love of Jesus sets us FREE. Filled with His love, our souls become furnaces of divinely powerful love that flows through us and out to others. Free in His love, we have His peace & power to set the captives free.
May 08, 2018•12 min
Naomi's Miracle & Unleashing Gospel Power Through Faith
At St. Ignatius Catholic Church on the final day of a signs & wonders filled ministry trip to the Cayman Islands with Patrick Reis of Encounter Ministries in partnership with Pastor Felix Manzanares of Journey Ministries, testimony is given of the wonders God worked throughout the week, including the miraculous growth of Naomi's leg, who shares her testimony. Jesus is the Vine & we are the branches, truly able to do the works He did, and "even greater works than these" said Jesus. (Jn 14...
May 01, 2018•16 min
God's Love & Our Vocations
On Good Shepherd Sunday, and World Day of Prayer for Vocations, we consider the vocation, the call, the God has given all of us: to live as disciples of Jesus, sons & daughters of God, in a life of divine love that leads us to live in holiness. When we fully embrace our primary vocation, we are ready to embrace our secondary vocation: the stable plan/state of life & special path God will lead us down as we live the life of discipleship he's called us to.
Apr 23, 2018•15 min
The Shepherd & The Stone
At a holy hour with young adults, a brief reflection on Jesus, the Good Shepherd who loves to roll away the stone...
Apr 23, 2018•3 min
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