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Send us Fan Mail Saints make grace visible precisely because they need it. What made and makes them so attractive is that they mirror the love from which they do not look away. They are transfixing because they let us see them being transfigured. I have Mass on Sunday, November 1st at St. Isidore @ 7:30 am. The Deacons are preaching this Sunday, so this homily will not be part of the live-stream broadcast. https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/ I have 4:00 pm Mass on November 7th at Holy Name Birmingham.  [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail “To be human is to belong. Belonging is a circle that embraces everything; if we reject it, we damage our nature. The word “belonging” holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing.” (John O'Donohue) I have Mass on Sunday, October 25th at St. Isidore @ 9:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail Jesus seems to be acting out a text from Ecclesiastes, chapter 8:1 “Wisdom illumines the face and transforms a grim countenance.” I have Mass on Sunday, October 18th at St. Isidore at 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed HERE There is a video from Archbishop Weisenburger during Mass this weekend, so my homily is abbreviated. [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail At the end of last Sunday’s parable, the chief priests and Pharisees realize that Jesus is speaking about them. They want to arrest him, but they fear the crowds who regard Jesus as a prophet. Whatever else we hear in this parable, we need to hear it with crucifixion in the air. I have Mass on Sunday, October 11 at St. Isidore @ 11:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail At the beginning of Chapter 21 in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus entered Jerusalem. He went into the Temple and drove out the money changers; he healed the blind and the lame who were in the Temple. We are still reading in chapter 21, so this is Tuesday of Holy Week I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, October 4th @ 7:30 am. The live-stream is HERE My  October 1st Substack post, St. Thérèse of Lisieux [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you." St. Augustine of Hippo (Confessions, Book X) Fr. James Martin, S.J., The Spiritual Life. I have Mass on Sunday, September 27 at St. Isidore @ 11:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail “You have made them equal to us” becomes a cause for celebration, not complaint.  I am away this weekend. [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus prays, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do” (Lk 23:34). Jesus may be too traumatized to offer forgiveness, but that doesn’t stop him from praying and asking the Father to forgive on his behalf.  I have Mass on Sunday, September 13th at St. Isidore @ 9:30 am [email protected] my latest SUBSTACK post

Send us Fan Mail Jesus has already expanded his mission to gentiles; and tradition holds that the author of the very passage we are reading was himself once a tax collector.  Treat him as you would St. Matthew? Is Matthew writing tongue-in-cheek?  I have Mass on Sunday, September 6 at St. Isidore @ 7:30 am.  live-streaming HERE.  The Calling of St. Matthew

Send us Fan Mail Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, August 30 @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/ [email protected] My substack posts this week. Homily for Wednesday 21st week in Ordinary Time Homily for Friday 21st week in Ordinary Time

Send us Fan Mail When we were getting ready to build our new church, we wanted to give away a portion of our new church to the poor. We partnered with Habitat for Humanity and built a house for the poor before we built our new house for the church. I have Mass on Sunday, August 23, at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am [email protected] My Substack posts last week:  The Lord is My Shepherd Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Send us Fan Mail Mom died July 30, 2026. She will be buried at Square Lake Cemetery in Lake Orion on October 17, 2026, on what would have been her 100th birthday. https://www.kroegerfuneralhome.com/obituary/MaryJane-Dailey [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail “Have mercy.” In Deuteronomy 7,  God explicitly tells the Israelites to "show no mercy.” Yet here is a Canaanite begging for just what her people were denied.  I am away this weekend. [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail Do you remember the moment, a little over 6 years ago, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Pope Francis gave a unique Urbi et Orbi blessing. He ascended the rainy steps of Saint Peter's Basilica alone, praying for the world and blessing it with the Blessed Sacrament. I have Mass on Sunday, August 9 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/ [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail Jesus places the bread into the hands of the disciples, the very ones who moments before wanted to send the crowds away. In doing so, he reshapes their imagination. They no longer see themselves as managers of scarcity but as participants in God’s abundance. I am away this weekend. [email protected]