by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 3, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob - Handball was my strength How do I say this? In the seminary when it came to “the books” I didn’t exactly set the world on fire. What I’m saying is that I was no Ray Ortman. You know what I’m saying? Okay. I didn’t study that much either. But there was one...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 3, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob - 50th Anniversary Mass Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. In today’s Gospel passage from Mark, we hear the story of the first Eucharist. In this we have the link between the priesthood of the Old Testament and the...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 3, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob - Pentecost Today celebrates the outpouring of the Spirit on the early church. Before that outpouring the disciples were locked into fear. Take Peter, the night Jesus was arrested while warming himself by the courtyard fire a panic-y Peter folded in fear when...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 3, 2024 | Homily Blog
Deacon Ray - Wait and See “What are you looking for?” These were the first words of Jesus in John’s Gospel, and they were addressed to His first disciples. The funny thing is that they did not know how to answer Jesus’ question, so they dodged it by asking “where...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 3, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob Legend has it that as an old man the apostle John’s message to people always ended with, “Love one another.” The word love is mentioned nine times in today’s second reading from John 4:7-10 and ten times in today’s Gospel from John 15. With this root command...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 28, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob White - What the walk of faith asks us. The “walk through life” that we’re all on whether we know it or not we’re all on that walk. But do we want to make the “walk through life” a walk of faith? That’s up to us. So, what does the walk of faith ask of us? My...
