Heart of the Homily
Our Podcast revisits Sunday’s Gospel and homily by Fr Vigoa, digging deeper into it’s message and how we can take it from the pew into the rest of our week. Also enjoy Fr. Vigoa's daily homilies here that will call you deeper into discipleship with Christ and mission.
We hope “heart of the homily” podcast and homilies transforms how you pray, think, live and love this week.
Episodes
183 episodes
Podcast | Open Hands, Open Heart | (Episode 181)
We explore why Jesus’s hard words in Matthew 10 are not a command to love family less but a call to stop possessing the people we love. We use the image of open hands to expose fear, control, and misplaced expectations, then practice surrender ...
Homily | June 30, 2026 | Why A Loving God Allows Hard Seasons | (Episode 180)
We challenge the idea that God’s love should make life easy, and we show why hardship can be a form of correction rather than rejection. We connect Amos and the storm at sea to a single question that every crisis asks us: will we trust Christ w...
Homily | June 29, 2026 | Unlikely Saints, Unshakable Church | (Episode 179)
We celebrate Peter and Paul as proof that God builds His Church through imperfect people and still keeps every promise. We follow Jesus to Caesarea Philippi, listen to Peter’s confession, and face the same life-defining question ourselves. ...
Homily | June 28, 2026 | Open Hands, Open Heart | (Episode 178)
We use the image of the human hand to explore how fear makes us clench and how trust teaches us to open. We connect Jesus’ challenging words about loving him first to the difference between love that protects and possession that controls, then ...
Homily | Español | June 28, 2026 | Quiet Faith In Ordinary Kindness | (Episode 177)
We reflect on the Shunammite woman’s quiet hospitality toward Elisha and how God notices the good we do without applause. We also face Jesus’ hard words about loving God first, carrying the cross, and choosing everyday kindness that costs us so...
Homily | June 27, 2026 | Real Faith Means Trusting Christ’s Authority Over Mine | (Episode 176)
We trace the famous Mass prayer back to the Roman centurion and ask why Jesus calls his faith greater than anyone in Israel. We connect that astonishment to a hard definition of faith: trusting Christ’s authority over our lives instead of trust...
Homily | June 26, 2026 | Christ Still Says I Want To Heal You | (Episode 175)
We sit with the heartbreak of Jerusalem’s destruction and connect it to the quiet way sin can erode a life over time. We end with the Gospel’s shock of mercy as Jesus touches the leper and shows he truly wants to make us clean and rebuild what’...
Homily | June 25, 2026 | Storms Reveal What Your Life Is Built On | (Episode 174)
We take Jesus’ warning seriously: saying the right religious words can still miss the kingdom when our lives aren’t aligned with the Father’s will. We connect Jerusalem’s collapse and the house-on-rock parable to the storms that expose what we ...
Homily | June 24, 2026 | God Gave You A Purpose Before Birth | (Episode 173)
We celebrate the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist and unpack why his birth reveals how God calls and names a person for a mission from the very beginning. We challenge the lie that we invent our own purpose and ask how our lives can point peo...
Homily | June 23, 2026 | Spread It Out Before God | (Episode 172)
We notice the easy-to-miss moment where Hezekiah receives a threatening letter and refuses to let fear run the story. We follow his simple move of laying the problem before God, then connect it to Jesus’ call to choose the narrow gate of trust ...
Podcast | How Fear Controls Us And How Faith Frees Us | (Episode 171)
Fear controls us when we let it decide for us, but Jesus keeps repeating a better command: do not be afraid. We talk through anxiety, attachment, and freedom, and we learn how trusting the Father’s providence reorders everything. • fea...
Homily | June 22, 2026 | The Real Defeat Happens In The Heart | (Episode 170)
We reflect on the fall of Israel and the sobering truth that collapse begins in the heart long before it shows up in public. We connect that warning to Jesus’ teaching about the beam and the splinter, and we choose self-examination that leads t...
Homily | June 21, 2026 | How Fear Controls Us And How Faith Frees Us | (Episode 169)
We name the fears that quietly run our lives and ask what we are afraid to lose, because that fear can become a chain someone else can pull. We explore how Jesus moves us from anxiety to freedom by teaching a different kind of fear rooted in lo...
Homily | Español | June 21, 2026 | Faith Grows When You Choose Trust | (Episode 168)
We wrestle with fear in all its forms, from rejection on the outside to self-doubt on the inside, and we learn why Jeremiah’s courage is still practical today. We choose trust over panic, lean on God’s grace instead of our own strength, and ref...
Homily | June 20, 2026 | Joash And The Slow Drift | (Episode 167)
We trace the hidden tragedy of King Joash: a strong start that collapses when his faith proves dependent on someone else’s influence. We connect that slow drift to Jesus’ warning about serving two masters, and we end with a blunt question about...
Homily | June 19, 2026 | Hope When Evil Looks Strong | (Episode 166)
We wrestle with the fear that evil is winning and trace a biblical moment when God’s promises seem to hang by a thread. We land on a steady kind of hope rooted in God’s hidden work and Jesus’ warning about fragile earthly treasure. • A...
Homily | June 18, 2026 | Why The Our Father Reorders Everything In Prayer | (Episode 165)
We wrestle with the temptation to treat prayer like persuading God, then we hear Jesus remind us that the Father already knows what we need before we ask. We walk through how the Our Father trains our hearts to trust God’s will and forgive othe...
Homily | June 17, 2026 | Choosing Holiness Over Applause In A Culture Of Visibility | (Episode 164)
Who are you living for when nobody is watching? That question sits under our habits, our goals, and even our best religious moments, and it doesn’t let us hide behind “good intentions.” We reflect on Elisha standing before Elijah and making a s...
Homily | June 16, 2026 | God Sees The Sin We Hide And Offers A Way Back | (Episode 163)
We follow Ahab after the murder of Naboth and watch God bring the truth into the open through Elijah. We sit with the shock of God’s justice and the tenderness of God’s mercy, then let Jesus push us into the hard work of praying for our enemies...
Podcast | Invisible Wounds And Real Compassion | (Episode 162)
We talk about Jesus’ gut-level compassion in Matthew 9 and how he sees the hidden pain people carry every day. We also wrestle with why we stay masked and silent, then trace how Christ’s mercy turns disciples into apostles who actually go serve...
Homily | June 15, 2026 | The Danger Of Unchecked Desire | (Episode 161)
We hold up the story of Ahab and Naboth as a warning about how desire can turn into entitlement, resentment, and injustice. We contrast that grasping with Jesus’ call to mercy, surrender, and freedom from retaliation. • Ahab’s obsessio...
Homily | June 14, 2026 | Invisible Wounds And Real Compassion | (Episode 160)
We talk about the invisible wounds people carry and the loneliness that can hide behind a functioning life. We hold up the compassion of Jesus as something fierce and personal, then we face the hard truth that he sends ordinary people to be the...
Homily | Español | June 14, 2026 | Compassion Into Action | (Episode 159)
We reflect on what the Gospel reveals about the heart of Jesus: compassion that becomes action, not empty words. We also wrestle with the shockingly generous way He shares spiritual authority and forms disciples for mission. • Jesus’ c...
Homily | June 13, 2026 | Mary’s Immaculate Heart | (Episode 158)
We reflect on why the Church honors the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary back to back, showing God’s love as the source and Mary’s surrender as the response. We lean on Luke’s line that Mary “kept all these things in her h...
Homily | June 12, 2026 | The Sacred Heart And The God Who Chases Us | (Episode 157)
We celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus as the clearest picture of who God is and how God loves, not as a distant idea but as mercy that moves toward us first. We trace Scripture and the Gospel invitation to rest, then connect that personal heal...