Catholic Preaching Father Roger Landry

Fr. Roger J. Landry

Shrine of Our Lady of the Alleghenies, Loreto, Pennyslvania

Votive Mass of the Holy Eucharist (Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)

June 9, 2024

Deut 8:2-3.14.16, 1 Cor 11:23-26, Jn 6:51-58

 

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Fr. Roger Landry

St. Patrick’s Church, Washington DC

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Gen 3:9-15, Ps 130, 1 Cor 4:13-5:1, Mt 3:20-35

 

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The readings for today’s Mass are: 













Reading 1

Gn 3:9-15



After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree,

the LORD God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?”

He answered, “I heard you in the garden;

but I was afraid, because I was naked,

so I hid myself.”

Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked?

You have eaten, then,

from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!”

The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—

she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it.”

The LORD God then asked the woman,

“Why did you do such a thing?”

The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.”











Then the LORD God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this, you shall be banned

from all the animals

and from all the wild creatures;

on your belly shall you crawl,

and dirt shall you eat

all the days of your life.

I will put enmity between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and hers;

he will strike at your head,

while you strike at his heel.”













Responsorial Psalm

Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8



R. (7bc) With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.

Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;

LORD, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to my voice in supplication.

R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.

If you, O LORD, mark iniquities,

LORD, who can stand?

But with you is forgiveness,

that you may be revered.

R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.

I trust in the LORD;

my soul trusts in his word.

More than sentinels wait for the dawn,

let Israel wait for the LORD.

R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.

For with the LORD is kindness

and with him is plenteous redemption

and he will redeem Israel

from all their iniquities.

R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.























Reading 2

2 Cor 4:13—5:1



Brothers and sisters:

Since we have the same spirit of faith,

according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,

we too believe and therefore we speak,

knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus

will raise us also with Jesus

and place us with you in his presence.

Everything indeed is for you,

so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people

may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.

Therefore, we are not discouraged;

rather, although our outer self is wasting away,

our inner self is being renewed day by day.

For this momentary light affliction

is producing for us an eternal weight of glory

beyond all comparison,

as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen;

for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

Fr. Roger J. Landry

Conversations with Consequences Podcast

Homily for the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, B, Vigil

June 8, 2024

 

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* This is Fr. Roger Landry and it’s a privilege for me to be with you as we enter into the consequential conversation the Risen Lord Jesus wants to have with each of us this Sunday, when we return to the Sundays of Ordinary Time in which Jesus describes for us the wok of the devil, Christ’s own response to him, and what he wants our response to be.

* In the Gospel, various of Jesus’ cousins came to seize him, claiming, “He is out of his mind.” They evidently couldn’t understand why he would leave his job in Nazareth, surround himself by a bunch of fishermen, tax collectors, zealots and others, and preach in such a way that many of the religious leaders of the time — the Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, and eventually high priests — would turn on him to have him killed. No one could deny his miracles and exorcisms, but some of the scribes accused him of doing his work through black magic, casting out the little demons, we could say, by the power of the great demon. The evil one had gotten Jesus’ critics, even some of his relatives, to begin to believe the lie that Jesus’ work was diabolical rather than divine. Jesus answered them quite clearly, cutting to the heart of the devil’s technique of dividing and conquering: “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand.” The devil is a divider, Jesus is saying, and would never permit his infernal kingdom to be divided because then his plans would be defeated. He would never turn his principal weapon against himself. Just as he did with Adam and Eve, the devil continues to try to work his plan of division, to divide us from God through sin, to divide us from others, to divide husbands and wives, to divide families, to divide countries into terrible partisanship, to divide the Church into various labels like liberals and conservatives, social justice versus pro-life Catholics, to divide us on music, to divide us on which priests we prefer, to divide us any and every way he can. Jesus prayed during the Last Supper that we might be one, just as He and the Father are one. The devil seeks to make us a bunch of isolated, unhappy monads, like we see the devils divulge in a possessed man elsewhere in the Gospel, who said, “We are legion, for there are many of us.”

* But Jesus is stronger than the devil. He came into this world as the “Stronger Man,” to use his phrase from this Sunday’s Gospel, to bind the “strong man” of the devil and divide his spoils. In the Alleluia verse before the Gospel, we will sing about how he does so: “Now the ruler of the world will be driven out,” Jesus says, and “when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself” (Jn 12:31-32). Jesus exorcises the devil by his crucifixion, when he was lifted up on Calvary, but in the very same action of expelling the devil he is attracting us to himself.

* To defeat the devil, Jesus wants to draw us to him in three ways.

* The first is through repentance and mercy. In the middle of this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus talks about the unforgivable sin, telling us, “All sins and blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness,

Fr. Roger J. Landry

St. John the Evangelist Parish

Westminster, Maryland

June 5, 2024

 

This brief talk was given during a rain-delay for the Eucharistic Procession to take place around the parish grounds of St. John’s Parish. It focuses briefly on the Eucharistic Pilgrimage of Christian Life and the Church, the place of the Eucharistic Pilgrimage within the Eucharistic Revival and How St. John the Evangelist helps us to learn to live centered on the Word made flesh. 

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Fr. Roger J. Landry

St. Laurence Church

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

June 2, 2024

 

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The homily begins briefly in Spanish before speaking in English at length about the history of the foundation of the Corpus Christi feast and what it means for us today. Then it shifts in Spanish to the deacon St. Lawrence, patron of the parish, and what we can learn from him to integrate our Eucharistic faith in terms of being willing to die for the Mass, on a Eucharistic loving of the true treasure of the Church — Jesus and others for whom Jesus died — and finally about the joy that comes from the Eucharist that can influence even a brutal martyrdom, as we see in the account of St. Lawrence’s passion.

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Fr. Roger J. Landry

Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord

June 2, 2024

Ex 24:3-8, Ps 116, Heb 9:11-15, Mk 14:12-16.22-26

 

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* My name is Father Roger Landry and I have the privilege to be accompanying the Lord Jesus and the pilgrims on the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage all 65 days of our journey from New Haven to Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress. The Pilgrimage and the Congress are both part of the three-year-plus National Eucharistic Revival that is taking place to renew the Church in our country by helping all of us grow in Eucharistic knowledge, faith, amazement, gratitude, love and life.

* It’s a great joy for all of us to have the chance to celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord here in this beautiful and historic Cathedral, to proclaim the word of God as two of my fellow pilgrims did earlier and then to have one of us preach and I cannot thank Archbishop Perez enough for his generosity in inviting us to do so.

* The essence of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi is given to us by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the liturgical sequence that immediately proceeded today’s Gospel. Lauda Sion Salvatorem — “Praise, O Zion, your Savior — lauda ducem et pastorem — “Praise your leader and shepherd” — in hymnis et canticis, “in hymns and songs.” We’re here fundamentally to praise and thank Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. St. Thomas continues, Quantum potes, tantum aude — “dare to do all you can” — quia maior omni laude nec laudare sufficis — “because the mystery we celebrate is so much greater than all we can do and say.” We’re called to pull out all the stops, to push ourselves way beyond our comfort zones, because all our thanks will be far short of what the incredible self-gift of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist deserves. Quantum potes, tantum aude, literally “however much you can do, so dare to do,” ought to be the motto of Solemnity of Corpus Christi, the plan of the Eucharistic Revival, and the spirituality of every fully formed Catholic.

* Having the courage to do all we can is why after Mass today we will be taking Jesus out into the streets in a Eucharistic procession to St. Patrick’s Church.

* Having the boldness to do all possible was what defined your patrons, Saints Peter and Paul, who left everything to follow the Lord and continued to follow them to and through death into eternal life.

* Having the audacity to do all possible is what inspired the saintly fourth bishop of Philadelphia in 1853, the year after his arrival, to start 40 hour Eucharistic devotions in every parish of the-then Diocese.

* This bravery is what led Philadelphia native Saint Katherine Drexel, whose mortal remains are here in the Cathedral, to found the Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament to try to bring the Eucharistic Jesus and faith in him to blacks and Native Americans throughout the United States.

* This dauntlessness is what led the Church in Philadelphia to build the greatest Catholic school system in the history of the world, to pass on not just the “three r’s” of reading, writing, and arithmetic to generations of young people but also the r’s of recognition of the Real Presence, of reverence, of the root and center, source and summit of our faith, Jesus Christ himself, on the altar.

* This daring led the Church in Philadelphia likewise to step forward to host the 1976 international Eucharistic Congress so that, during the bicentennial of our nation’s founding documents signed here in Philadelphia, we might recognize our “life,