
St. Patrick Catholic Parish Podcast
Homilies, Chapel Chats, and more from the largest Catholic parish in Brighton, Michigan.
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279 episodes
Protecting Our Kids: Safe Haven Sunday | Dcn. Peter Randolph
In this homily, delivered on October 12, 2025, Dcn. Peter preaches on the need to protect our homes from explicit internet content and to make our homes safe havens for our kids to flourish in purity and holiness. Society is inundated with inap...
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The Reward for Serving God is Not a Participation Trophy | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily on October 5th, 2025, Fr Mathias preaches on the truth that we are unprofitable servants who owe God everything. Yet our God still astoundingly chooses to love us. Father Mathias challenges us as God's servants to rej...
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Entering God's Love Demands Everything | Dcn. Peter Randolph
In this homily, delivered on September 28, 2025, Dcn. Peter preaches that God is inviting us to enter into His own divine life but to enter into this life demands everything. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit hold nothing back from each other in...
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How Will You Spend Your Dishonest Wealth? | Fr. Joshua Fons
Father Joshua Fons breaks open this Sunday's puzzling Gospel of the Dishonest Steward (September 21st, 2025). The key lies in recognizing that everything we have, all our gifts and talents, are all dishonest wealth. It is all a gift! We didn't ...
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What Do Transformative Small Groups Look Like? | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily on September 14th, 2025, Fr Mathias preaches Part 2 of the preaching series on small groups. Father outlines the four essential elements of effective small groups:1) Prioritized Consistency2) Vulnerable Sh...
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How to Have Courage to Follow Jesus: The Power of Small Groups | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily on September 7th, 2025, Fr Mathias preaches Part 1 of the preaching series on small groups. Father outlines reasons why small groups are a game-changer for having the humility, courage and perseverance necessary to follow Jesus t...
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Loved Even in Our Lowest Place | Dcn. Peter Randolph
In this homily, preached on August 31, 2025, Dcn. Peter preaches about Jesus' love for us even in our lowest place. In prayer, we are called by Jesus to go to our lowest place, our place of weakness and brokenness, so that we can meet Him there...
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Are You In the Game? | Fr. Joshua Fons
As Football season approaches, Father Joshua Fons challenges us to consider whether, in our Faith, we are just a spectator or whether we are in the game. In the Gospel this Sunday, August 24th, 2025, we hear Jesus asked about salvation: "...
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The Fire of God's Love and Division in our Families | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily on August 17th, 2025, Fr Mathias talks about the division that our faith in Jesus can cause in our families. If this happens, we are not to be surprised and blame ourselves. But we are also meant to respond with humil...
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Why God Doesn't Always Give us What We Want | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily on July 27th, 2025, Fr Mathias outlines several reasons why God doesn't give us what we want in prayer, as drawn from St Augustine and Scripture. He concludes his homily by exhorting us to ask, seek and knock for the gift t...
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The Purpose of our Lives | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on the Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time (July 13, 2025), Fr. Mathias preaches on the essence of our Christian faith: love. Our faith is ultimately about receiving the love of God in Christ and loving God and neighbor...
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The Face of the Bride | Dcn. Peter Randolph
In this homily, given on July 6, 2025, Dcn. Peter preaches about the crucial role that religious sisters play in the Body of Christ. Religious sisters give a human face to the Bride, the Church, and support the vocations of married couples and ...
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Pray for Your Leaders | Dcn. Peter Randolph
In this homily, given on June 29, 2025, Dcn. Peter preaches about the call to pray for our leaders. God pours out special graces on each feast of the Church, and on this Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, God is pouring out graces on our leaders...
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Housekeeping Items for Sunday Mass | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (June 22, 2025), Fr Mathias outlines various housekeeping items or "house rules" for Sunday Mass that can help us all allow Jesus to truly satisfy us in the Eucharist. <...
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For Those We Will Never Meet | Fr. Joshua Fons
On Ascension Sunday, June 1st, 2025, Father Joshua Fons preaches about the reality of the mission that Christ gave to the Apostles, and how, because of their faithfulness to that mission, it has now been passed on to us. Father Joshua found par...
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He Longs to Be Present to Us | Dcn. Peter Randolph
In this homily, given on May 25, 2025, Dcn. Peter preaches about God's desire to be present to us. Jesus promises to dwell within us, and salvation history demonstrates that God's desire has been to draw near to us, even when we reject Him. If ...
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The Love of Jesus Christ | Dcn. Leon Demers
This homily from Sunday, May 18, 2025 is about how deeply Jesus loves us and how he shows us how to love everyone, and if we truly wish to be like him we need to try to follow his example.
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How to Receive Pope Leo XIV | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on May 11th, 2025, (Good Shepherd Sunday) Fr Mathias reacts to the election of Pope Leo XIV and offers some important reminders on how to properly receive him and his ministry as Catholics.
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What Is Worthy of the Offering of Your Life? | Fr. Joshua Fons
In this homily given at St. Pat's on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 Fr. Joshua Fons explores the critical question: what is worthy of the offering of your life? This is the heart of every vocation: finding someone worth giving everything for, every day....
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How to Be A Compelling Apostle of Mercy | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on April 27, 2025 (Divine Mercy Sunday) Fr Mathias highlights the fact that all the lay faithful are called to be apostles of mercy to those around them. After reminding them that we need to receive mercy in order to give m...
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Entering into Holy Week with Compassion | Dcn. Josh Luttig
In this homily, given Palm Sunday, 2025, Dcn. Josh breaks down the meaning of compassion: to suffer with. As we enter into Holy Week, we have an opportunity to have compassion on Christ, who had compassion on us first.
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When Did You Get Old? | Fr. Joshua Fons
On the 5th Sunday of Lent, April 6th, 2025, Fr. Joshua Fons dives into the question "when do we get old?" It's not just a certain number of years, or a lack of hair, it's when we stop believing life has anything new to offer. And nothing ages t...
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The Holy Spirit and Our Desire for the Infinite | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this brief homily given on March 23, 2025, Fr Mathias preaches on the relationship between our desires for things in this life and our ultimate desire for God who alone can fulfill us. He ends his homily with an exhortation to call on the Ho...
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Sifting Through the Influencers in Our Lives | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on March 16, 2025 Fr Mathias breaks down St Peter's warning to the Christians in Philippi and applies it to us today. After all, who we allow to influence us through media or in person matters a lot. Fath...
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