Msgr. LoPinto:
Jesus begins this conversation with Nicodemus, making reference to an experience of the people as they journey through the desert. They were very distrustful of God and they complained to Moses about the fact that they were missing some of the enjoyments that they had in Egypt.
Continue reading “Homily – 4th Sunday in Lent”How many of us remember the date of our first Holy Communion? Show of hands? If you remember the date of your first Holy Communion gave you, mine was March 8th.
Continue reading “Homily – 3rd Sunday of Lent”So I need you all to think back to when you were little. By little, I mean young. For some of us, that means we have to go back last century. But it’s okay. So go back to when we were young, when we were a child. Wasn’t life a lot easier when we were a child?
Continue reading “Homily – 2nd Sunday of Lent”Have we each had the experience of just wanting to say would just come to the point? Stop all the words, just tell me what you want. Have we all had one of those moments? And I’m willing to bet if you were to tell the truth, you would say that after listening to many homilies, you just want to say, Father, just get to the point.
Continue reading “Homily – 1st Sunday of Lent”Deacon Kevin McCormack:
It is truly a great privilege for me to come back to Saint Charles and to be with you all. I thank Father immensely for trusting me with his congregation, and I just like traveling. I’m like the itinerant preacher sometimes.
It’s really great. I’m from Lynbrook. That’s my home parish – I’m a Rockville Center deacon canonically but everything else in my life, I’m a Brooklyn deacon, so it’s really kind of cool to be here. Now, today I get to ask you a question that I’m betting on your bingo card today was not there. No one thought maybe when I go to church, I’ll be asked, What do you think it would be like to know you’re a leper?
Continue reading “Homily – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time”So I have a favorite four letter F word. No, I don’t know where your minds went, but my favorite word is free. Any time I hear the words free, like it’s really a good thing. I like free. However, if a friend calls and says it’s been a long time, let’s go out to lunch. My treat. Sometimes I think, this is too good to be true.
Continue reading “Homily – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time”Great to be with you again. I came here and I think it was freezing. And then it became like 60 degrees and then it was like raining all day. So I got a little bit of everything here. There’s during this week and I was also able to get a little bit of everyone, everyone in who I saw this past week is a very eventful week, but we get to cap it off with a baptism of good friends of mine, Janette and Alex’s brand new baby, Eli.
Continue reading “Homily – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time”