Father Terry’s Sermons

June 4             It is not always easy to be family.  Good parents, the old saying goes, give their children roots and wings, a sense of security and freedom to live their lives.  But achieving such a balance is often accomplished only after years of working… Read more: Solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity:  A Family Affair

          The function of the Advocate is to testify or to bear witness to Jesus.  This is to be done in conjunction with the community’s own testifying and witnessing.  The activity of the community giving testimony and bearing witness is a visible manifestation of the Advocate… Read more: “On Being Church” –  Pentecost Sunday

6th Sunday of Easter – A “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Joh 14, 15) We hear these words in the middle of the great departing speech of Jesus, meant to comfort his disciples before he leaves them. But here we could almost… Read more: “Loving means keeping the Commandments”

5th Sunday of Easter – A “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” In coming into the world to fulfill the Father’s plan, Jesus’s mission was to become for us, wayward sinners; the way to the Father, the truth of the Father and the… Read more: “Jesus: Our Bridge to the Father.”

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY The Church celebrates the mercy of God on this Second Sunday of Easter. It is called Divine Mercy Sunday, a day when we reflect on the goodness and mercy of God in our lives. Scripture  tells us that all of us have sinned… Read more: 2nd Sunday of Easter