Sunday Homilies

A priest of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois offers his thoughts on the Word of God as proclaimed throughout the world, Sunday after Sunday.

Sunday Homilies is a religion podcast hosted by Father Kevin Laughery, with 1,000 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Father Kevin Laughery hosts Sunday Homilies, a religion show with 1,000 episodes published.

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  Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

  Aug 31, 20259 minS0

  <p>2025 Aug 31 SUN: TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME<br /> Sir 3: 17-18. 20. 28-29/ Ps 68: 4-5. 6-7. 10-11/ Heb 12: 18-19. 22-24a/ Lk 14: 1. 7-14</p> <p>Wednesday morning, Andy Schwierjohn sent me an email. He had received word of the shooting at the Catholic parish in Minneapolis.</p> <p>He remembered that my sister Kathy is a teacher in a Minneapolis Catholic school. So I turned to the news and it was not my sister's school.</p> <p>In fact, I had spoken with her just a couple days before and I knew that her school was not starting till this week...

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  Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 24, 2025

  Aug 27, 20258 minS0

  <p>2025 Aug 24 SUN: TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME<br /> Is 66: 18-21/ Ps 117: 1. 2/ Heb 12: 5-7. 11-13/ Lk 13: 22-30</p> <p><br /> I remember, from about 20 years ago, being at a meeting with a number of non-Catholic Christian pastors and I was explaining to them what the Second Vatican Council had to say about the possible salvation of people who've never heard of Jesus Christ. And Vatican II, in the Constitution on the Church, says that such people, if they are seeking what is true and good, they can be granted entrance into the heavenly kingdom. And I remember one of the...

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  Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 17, 2025

  Aug 18, 20257 minS0

  <p>2025 Aug 17 SUN: TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME<br /> Jer 38: 4-6. 8-10/ Ps 40: 2. 3. 4. 18 (14b)/ Heb 12: 1-4/ Lk 12: 49-53</p> <p> </p> <p>We have heard in the book of Jeremiah about the lot of the prophet. People didn't like what Jeremiah was saying, and he was essentially saying, "You had better become more faithful to the Lord, the one God. Otherwise you will be taken captive and carried off to Babylon." People didn't want to hear that -- the princes, it says. So they threw him into a muddy cistern.</p> <p>Well, it is said that the purpose of a...

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  Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 10, 2025

  Aug 16, 20257 minS0

  <p>[The homilist was away on August 3.]</p> <p>2025 Aug 10 SUN: NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME<br /> Wis 18: 6-9/ Ps 33: 1. 12. 18-19. 20-22 (12b)/ Heb 11: 1-2. 8-19/ Lk 12: 32-48</p> <p>About 60 years ago, there was a popular song that began "Don't Know Much About History." Well, as we think about that opening line, we must understand that you and I, in fact, must know much about history.</p> <p>There are people who say that history repeats itself. We've heard people say that it doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme -- an interesting thought. And we also heard it...

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  Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 27, 2025

  Aug 16, 20257 minS0

  <p>2025 Jul 27 SUN: SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME<br /> Gn 18: 20-32/ Ps 138: 1-2. 2-3. 6-7. 7-8 (3a)/ Col 2: 12-14/ Lk 11: 1-13</p> <p><br /> We can take the second reading today to provide a foundation for what is being discussed in the first reading and the Gospel. So from St. Paul's letter to the Colossians, we have a statement about the death and resurrection of Jesus and the sacrament of baptism. He says that each of us in our baptism has been joined with the death of Jesus and with his resurrection. So these are gifts. This is a mystery...

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