St. Patrick Catholic Parish Podcast
Homilies, Chapel Chats, and more from the largest Catholic parish in Brighton, Michigan.
Episodes
237 episodes
Approaching the Upcoming Election as Catholics | Fr. Mathias Thelen
On Sunday October 13th, 2024 Fr Mathias preaches part one of four-part homily series on the Lay Commitment to the Common Good. This series is geared to help Catholics think critically about their responsibility to promote the common good ...
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Passing on the Faith Through Catholic Education | Fr. Mathias Thelen
On Sunday October 6th, Fr. Mathias unveils and makes a pitch for the Stewardship for Saints and Scholars Campaign, an urgent initiative of Bishop Boyea to support the passing on of the faith through Catholic education. To see the video that was...
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Homily: We Are All Prophets | Dcn. Josh Luttig
In this homily, given Sunday, September 29th 2024, Dcn. Josh calls us all to exercise our role as prophets through our baptisms. As prophets, we are called to hear God's word, and speak it to others.
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Homily | Attention: This Homily is Only For Men | Fr. Joshua Fons
Father Joshua Fons speaks to the Men on Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 about the ways masculinity is under attack in our culture, and how Jesus, the New Adam, gives us the Model of true masculinity. Jesus shows us what true greatness looks like, ...
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Homily: Following Jesus is Hard, Never Try Doing it By Yourself | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given Sunday, September 15, 2024, Fr. Mathias preaches on the difficulty and suffering involved in following Jesus to heaven. But Jesus never asked us to try to follow him on our own. After outlining parts of the Pathway of Disci...
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Homily: What's the Hurry?? | Fr. Joshua Fons
In this homily given on Sunday, September 8th, 2024, Father Joshua Fons speaks into the reality of our very hurried and frantic lives: lives full of restlessness, distraction, and anxiety; lives spent glued to a Smartphone. Why are we in such a...
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Homily: God is Condescending | Deacon Josh Luttig
In this homily given Sunday September 1st, 2024, Deacon Josh expounds upon the fact that God lowers himself to us most profoundly in the Eucharist; which allows us to live pure and undefiled lives and remain unstained by the world.
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Homily: "Lord, To Whom Shall We Go?" | Fr. Joshua Fons
In the last week of the 5 week series on the Eucharist, Father Joshua Fons unpacks the exciting conclusion of John 6, challenging us to stake our life on the Eucharist. The Eucharist isn't just a nice idea, or an interesting doctrine, it is Jes...
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Homily: How to Receive More From God At Mass | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given Sunday August 18, 2024, Fr Mathias preaches part four of the series on the Eucharist in which he reflects on why some people get more out of Mass than others. He suggests that the disposition of thanksgiving and prais...
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Homily: What Going Sunday Mass Weekly Communicates to Those Around You | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given Sunday August 11, 2024, Fr Mathias continues the preaching series on the Eucharist and calls us to renew our commitment to Sunday Mass. The Eucharist is the source of divine life and when we faithfully go to Mass we not onl...
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Homily: Are you Satisfied? | Fr. Joshua Fons
In Part 2 of the 5 week series on the Eucharist, Father Joshua invites us to recognize the hunger we have in our hearts, and that this hunger can only be satisfied in Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life.
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Homily: Presidential Politics and the National Eucharistic Congress | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given Sunday July 28, 2024, Fr Mathias challenges us to see the general election this fall from the perspective of what God was doing in the National Eucharistic Congress. Just as Philip didn't see how they were to feed the crowd...
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Homily: Missionary Appeal | Fr. Daniel Saaka
St. Victor’s Major Seminary was established by the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) in 1946 to train natives to minister to their own people in their native language and culture. St. Victor's Seminary is in need of the follo...
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Homily: We Do By Grace What God Does By Nature | Dcn. Josh Luttig
In this homily, given at St. Pat's on Sunday, July 14th, 2024, Deacon Josh invites us to consider our response if the Lord were to ask us to go out on mission as he sent his apostles. The success of our life as Christians depends on our relianc...
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Homily: Is Your Life a Mess? | Fr. Joshua Fons
In this homily given on Sunday, July 7th, 2024, Father Joshua Fons, the new parochial vicar at St. Pats, preaches about how no one lives a perfect life. In fact, most of our lives are a mess. But the Lord tells us through St. Paul, "My Grace is...
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Homily: God's Response | Fr. Miguel Colunga
In this homily given at St. Pat's on Sunday, June 30th 2024, Fr. Miguel preaches on how God responds to us in our brokenness, sin, and worry. Because He is mercy itself - he always responds by giving us His life
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Homily: Finding Jesus in Your Fears | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given Sunday June 23, 2024, Fr Mathias preaches on the gospel of Jesus calming the wind and the waves. The disciples were afraid because they didn't yet believe in Jesus as the Lord of creation who was present in their boat...
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Homily: Faith and Fathers | Dcn. Josh Luttig
In this homily, given on Father's Day (June 16th, 2024), Dcn Josh expounds upon St. Paul's message that faith allows us to live courageously in our earthly life as we set our hope on eternal life. He then explains how the parables in the Gospel...
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Homily: One Church | Fr. Miguel Colunga
In this homily given at St. Pat's on June 9, 2024, Fr. Miguel preaches on the importance of maintaining unity with Christ and his Church. For Jesus says in the Gospel that "if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to st...
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Homily: Receiving Holy Communion Worthily and Reverently | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on Corpus Christi (Sunday, June 2, 2024), Fr Mathias outlines what it means to receive Jesus worthily and reverently. Intentionally not going into too much detail , Father offers an overview of the Church's teaching t...
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Homily: Living the Life of Christ through the Holy Spirit | Dcn. Josh Luttig
In this homily, given at St. Pat's on May 19th, 2024, Dcn. Josh shares his testimony and experience hearing the call to the priesthood and being baptized in the Spirit. When we receive the Holy Spirit, our lives start to look like Christ's and ...
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Homily: Receiving Well | Fr. Miguel Colunga
In this homily given at St. Pat's on May 12, 2024, Fr. Miguel preaches on the great gift of Jesus resulting from his Ascension: the outpouring of his Holy Spirit at Pentecost. But like any gift that we have received, we can receive a gift well ...
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Homily: Eternal. Total. Free | Fr. Miguel Colunga
In this homily given at St. Pat's on May 05, 2024, Fr. Miguel preaches on what it means for God to love us by breaking open three characteristics of God's love: 1. That it's eternal, 2. It's total, and 3. It's freely given.
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Homily: Pruning of Mindsets | Fr. Miguel Colunga
In this homily given at St Pat's on April 28th, 2024, Fr. Miguel preaches on how the Word of God prunes us of any mindsets and attitudes that will prevent us from fully responding to the Lord's call in our lives
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Homily: Living As Good Shepherds in a Self-Interested World | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on April 21st, 2024, Fr Mathias exhorts us to live like Jesus, our Good Shepherd, and not like the hired men who abandons the sheep when danger is near. It's not just the clergy who are called to be like Jesus in shep...
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