Laying Down Your Life: Impossible?

John 15: 9-17  There is No Greater Love
Sixth Sunday of Easter - and Mother's Day 2015

Is it impossible to actually lay down your life for a stranger, a fellow parishioner, or even a friend? Deacon Tom uses the film The Impossible, to explore the idea that the opportunity to lay down your life for someone else may come at any time, in any way.

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Deacon Tom Homily 5-10-15

Your Own Transformation: Are you Ready?

We are called to transformation. That's just a part of our journey toward the glory that awaits us in Christ. Listen to this remarkable story of one man's transformation, and how that can inspire us to do the unthinkable!

Reflections on the Transfiguration: Mark 9 / Second Sunday of Lent, Cycle B

Listen now: Homily of 2nd Sunday of Lent: Transfiguration

What's consuming you? There's always something. Even Jesus was consumed by something: zeal for God's house. Can we be consumed with with doing the will of God?

Gospel from John 2: The Cleansing of the Temple

Listen to My Homily on Being Consumed with Doing the Will of God

The Yoke of Jesus

Let go of the anxiety and burden of trying to follow the false and burdensome law that false teachers may lay upon you. Instead, be free in the law of Jesus!

Gospel from Matthew 11: The Yoke of Jesus

Listen to my Homily on the Yoke of Jesus

Can You Really Be Perfect?

In Matthew's Gospel (Matt 5:38-48), Jesus tells his disciples, and us his followers, to "be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Can we really be perfect? I explore this as we explore Jesus' instruction to us to put aside retribution and embrace others into the Kingdom of God.

(c) 2014 Tom O'Brien
Listen to my homily  from February 23 2014

Emmanuel - We are Never Alone

During the Advent season we can begin to feel the approaching season of Advent with gloom rather than with anticipation. It's a time of year when we can feel alone. That's why I talk about the fact that because of Jesus--Emmanuel, we are never alone!

(c) Tom O'Brien 2013.
Listen to the MP3 file of my homily, Emmanuel - We are Never Alone. 

Can Catholics Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?

A personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ... now there's terminology you don't hear much in Catholic circles. And yet a personal relationship with the Lord is vital to our life in God. Listen to how Deacon Tom ties in the Gospel of Luke 13's metaphor of the Narrow Gate with know Jesus personally.

from the Gospel: Luke 13:22-30 The Narrow Gate

Listen to the MP3 file: Can Catholics Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?
(c) 2013 by Tom O'Brien, all rights reserved