3/6, Thursday after Ash Wednesday
“Prompt our action with your inspiration, O LORD…that all we do might always begin from you, and by you be brought to completion…”
May 03, 2025•5 min
Let's Be Saints!
Homilies and Catholic faith formation with Fr. Luke Doyle, a priest of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. The purpose of this podcast is to help you make the decision to follow Jesus and allow Him to make you a saint!
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3/5, Ash Wednesday
When someone loves you, they will tell you the truth. “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” “Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
May 03, 2025•4 min
3/4, St. Casimir
When we choose the LORD, we do not lose. Unlike Simon Peter, God does not have a scarcity mindset. He loves in a spirit of generosity and freedom. Do I? “The just one’s offerings enrich the altar and rise as a sweet odor before the Most High.” “You will receive a hundred times more now in this present age…and eternal life in the age to come.”
May 03, 2025•6 min
3/3, Monday of the 8th Week in OT
The rich young man is looking at himself. St. Katherine Drexel looked at Jesus. Who/what am I looking at?
May 03, 2025•7 min
3/2, 8th Sunday in OT
“Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?” We do not follow “enthusiasts” to the heights of Heaven. We follow saints and the Church who has formed them in every age. “When fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher.”
Apr 26, 2025•13 min
2/28, Friday of the 7th Week in OT
“Kind mouths multiply friends and appease enemies”…do I lend my voice to the giving or taking of life? God stands with the vulnerable; first and foremost children. God wants His children to see life-giving love lived and modeled in marriage.
Apr 26, 2025•5 min
2/27, Thursday of the 7th Week in OT
Does my soul matter as much to me as it does to Jesus and to His Church? Am I willing to cut off the things hurting me from becoming a saint? Saints do not rely on their own wealth and power. They rely on Him. Do I?
Apr 26, 2025•7 min
2/26, Wednesday of the 7th Week in OT
Wisdom and knowledge are not the same thing. “We tried to prevent him because he does not follow us…” but the governing principle of the Church is not “us” but Jesus Christ. Unity and uniformity are NOT the same thing. Christ does not call us to uniformity but rather to unity.
Apr 26, 2025•7 min
2/24, Monday of the 7th Week in OT
Do I ponder spiritual things as we prayed for at the beginning of Mass? Or do I ponder worldly things? Who (or what?) is the great governing principle of my life? The greatest philosopher in history knew wisdom and made Him the great governing principle of her life. May we do likewise.
Apr 26, 2025•6 min
2/23, 7th Sunday in OT
Parish mission at St. Therese parish, KCMO. Loving people who love you; what’s praiseworthy about that? “To those who hear, I say…” Can you hear? Are you listening?
Apr 26, 2025•14 min
2/21, Friday of the 6th Week in OT
Our mission is to disappear. We proclaim not our story but His; the greatest story ever told in which we all have a part. The people of Babel say “come let us build FOR OURSELVES a city…and so make a name FOR OURSELVES.” But the saints do not proclaim themselves or build for themselves. They disappear into Him. “Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.”
Apr 18, 2025•7 min
2/20, Thursday of the 6th Week in OT
Human beings often think with the enemy of love…we need Jesus to show us the way of love! Love is not cheap, easy, or safe. Real love is self-giving and self-forgetting. Jesus comes to show us who God is and how God thinks.
Apr 18, 2025•8 min
2/19, Wednesday of the 6th Week in OT
Noah and his family receive new life through the branch of a tree…the blind man knew he was blind, and he lets Jesus take him by the hand and lead Him… “outside the village.” Do I?
Apr 18, 2025•8 min
2/18, Tuesday of the 6th Week in OT
“Guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” The disciples are in the boat with the Bread of Life…and they fail to recognize Him! “Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Do you have eyes and not see; ears and not hear? Do you still not understand?”
Apr 18, 2025•7 min
2/17, Monday of the 6th Week in OT
“This generation seeks a sign…” is the sign of Jesus enough for me? Do I offer a sacrifice of presence or a “sacrifice of praise” to God? That we may learn from the sacrifice of Abel!
Apr 18, 2025•8 min
2/16, 6th Sunday in OT
The foundation of our hope IS NOT us! Christian hope stands on a fact of history. Do I LIVE belief in the resurrection of Jesus and in the life of the world that is to come? “Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks strength in his own flesh…‘woe to you!”
Feb 18, 2025•15 min
2/14, Sts. Cyril and Methodius
Adam fails in his mission, and Eve has forgotten her identity. This reveals they have already stopped living in relationship with God…relationship, identity, mission. Jesus “does ALL things well.” Do I put relationship with Him first? Am I still grasping for apples, or does He come first?
Feb 18, 2025•9 min
2/13, Thursday of the 5th Week in OT
Today God has heard Adam’s cry and “crowned” creation with Eve. Woman is the being that holds the greatest dignity in creation. In the gospel, Jesus is conquered by the trusting confidence the Syrophoenician woman places in Him.
Feb 18, 2025•8 min
2/12, Wednesday of the 5th Week in OT
“The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.” God’s expectation is that men “father” creation by caring for it and reverencing its truth, goodness, and beauty. Am I doing this? Do I acknowledge that Jesus shows us how to do (and receive) this?
Feb 18, 2025•7 min
2/11, Our Lady of Lourdes
We are made in the image and likeness of love. Love is our identity, and love is our mission. But we have forgotten this! “This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”
Feb 17, 2025•8 min
2/10, St. Scholastica, Virgin
“He made the stars too.” Creation reveals the incredible power of the Creator! What He cares most about, is YOU. Does He get to touch you with His love and redeeming power tonight?
Feb 17, 2025•9 min
2/9, 5th Sunday in OT
Jesus came first and foremost to save souls. Is saving souls the first motivation of my life? We often care more about our personal comfort and gain than the salvation of others. Who can Jesus send into the world of 2025 to bring His people home?
Feb 17, 2025•12 min
2/7, Friday of the 4th Week in OT
“Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever.” God is incapable of change; He can’t love you more than He already does! Interior freedom grows in people who live in the unchanging presence and love of God.
Feb 17, 2025•7 min
2/6, Confirmation Parent Formation
Talk to parents of students preparing for confirmation.
Feb 17, 2025•33 min
2/6, St. Paul Miki and Companions
Saints don’t carry parachutes! Mission is never done in “ones.” Mission flows from relationship; communion.
Feb 15, 2025•6 min
2/4, Tuesday of the 4th Week in OT
The two women of the gospel show us how to be healed: “She fell down before Jesus and told Him the whole truth.” “The child is not dead but asleep’…and they ridiculed Him.” Talitha koum!
Feb 15, 2025•8 min
2/3, Monday of the 4th Week in OT
“The man went off and began to proclaim what Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed.” Am I a witness to hope like this man, or am I a spiritual pansy?
Feb 15, 2025•5 min
2/2, Feast of the Presentation of the LORD
The mission of every Christian is symbolized by the candle we received the day we became followers of Jesus. Be light!
Feb 15, 2025•12 min
1/31, St. John Bosco
“Grant we pray, that, aflame with the same fire of love, that we may seek out souls and serve you alone.” The love found in John Bosco is offered to us as well.
Feb 12, 2025•7 min
1/30, Thursday of the 3rd Week in OT
How do I measure the value of a human life? “The measure with which you measure will be measured unto you.” The Church is at her best in the face of death.
Feb 12, 2025•6 min
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