Heart of the Homily
Join us as we revisit 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. We hope “heart of the homily” podcast helps to transform and shape how you pray, think, live and love this week.
Episodes
69 episodes
Homily | March 26, 2026 | If Jesus Is The I Am Then Stop Negotiating (Episode 68)
Jesus speaks the line that ends the debate: “Before Abraham came to be, I am,” and we face the real weight of what that claim means. We connect that moment to Abraham’s covenant and name change, then ask where we hear Christ’s word but refuse t...
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Homily | March 25, 2026 | The Incarnation Begins When We Consent To God (Episode 67)
We focus on the Annunciation through one phrase that ties the readings together: God is with us, not as an idea but as a real presence that asks for trust. We contrast Ahaz’s resistance with Mary’s surrender and let the question land where it b...
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Homily | March 24, 2026 | What If The One Thing You Avoid Is Your Cure (Episode 66)
Jesus refuses soft language and tells the truth: without faith in who he is, we remain in sin and its deadly spiritual consequences. We connect the desert story of the bronze serpent to the Cross and ask what it looks like to stop minimizing si...
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Podcast | Taking Away The Stone That Keeps You Numb (Episode 070)
We reflect on Lent through real life pressures and the Gospel of Lazarus, naming what keeps us spiritually numb and what it takes to come back to life. We connect the scrutiny gospels to baptism and daily conversion, then challenge ourselves to...
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Homily | March 23, 2026 | When Accusations Sound Credible And Still Aren’t True (Episode 65)
We trace one thread through Susanna and the Gospel scene of the accused woman: crowds can be confident and still be wrong, and judgment turns dangerous when we refuse to look at ourselves. We hold mercy and truth together as Jesus exposes hypoc...
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Homily | March 22, 2026 | Taking Away The Stone That Keeps You Numb (Episode 064)
We stand with Jesus at a sealed tomb and hear a command that refuses to let death have the last word. We connect thirst, blindness, and spiritual death to the ways we hide, stay busy, and still feel numb, then we choose a real response to Chris...
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Episode 063 - Homily | Truth Demands A Response, So Who Will You Be (March 21, 2026)
Truth divides not because it is violent but because it demands a response, and we can’t stay neutral around it. We look at Jeremiah, Jesus, and the people around them to ask where we are open to God’s voice and where we resist it.• Jeremiah...
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Episode 062 - Homily | Holiness Provokes And Truth Confronts Us (March 20, 2026)
A single line from Wisdom reveals why goodness can trigger hostility: the just person’s life exposes what others would rather keep hidden. We ask where we fit in the story, how sin distorts our vision, and how God’s providence steadies us when ...
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Episode 061 - Homily | Saint Joseph And The Courage To Obey Without Answers (March 19, 2026)
We celebrate the feast of Saint Joseph by looking at the man who never speaks in Scripture yet teaches faith through decisive obedience. We connect God’s promise to David and Abraham’s hope against hope to Joseph’s choice to trust when nothing ...
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Episode 060 - Podcast | Jesus Heals A Man Born Blind And Exposes Our Spiritual Blindness
We take Laetare Sunday seriously as a mid-Lent call to rejoice because God is actually converting us, not because our discipline is almost finished. We walk through Jesus healing the man born blind and ask what spiritual blindness looks like to...
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Episode 059 - Homily | Jesus Heals A Man Born Blind And Exposes Our Spiritual Blindness (March 15, 2026)
Laetare Sunday breaks into Lent like an oasis, calling us to rejoice because God is already at work within our conversion. We walk through the healing of the man born blind to face the harder question of our own spiritual sight and what it take...
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Episode 058 - Podcast | From Shame To Witness: The Samaritan Woman’s Turning Point
We follow the Samaritan woman from hiding at noon to fearless witness, tracing how Jesus meets us in our mess, heals without shaming, and sends us on mission. Lent becomes a season of movement from shallow waters to a real encounter that satisf...
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Episode 057 - Homily | From Shame To Witness: The Samaritan Woman’s Turning Point (March 8, 2026)
A Lenten homily invites us to meet Christ at the well of our ordinary lives and name the thirsts we hide. We explore how being fully known and fully loved frees us from shame and turns our wounds into witness.• God meets us in ordinary ...
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Episode 055 - Homily | From Comfort To Calling: Why Movement Transforms Faith (March 1, 2026)
We trace Abraham’s first step and the Transfiguration to show how obedience precedes clarity and how movement, not mood, fuels spiritual growth. We challenge comfort, name concrete actions for Lent, and point to the promise that follows departu...
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Episode 054 - Podcast | Desert Of Decision
We walk into Lent with purpose and unpack how Jesus’ temptations reveal our own: hunger for quick fixes, shortcuts to power, and the pull of applause. The desert becomes good news as we practice hidden faithfulness, resist half-truths, and live...
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Episode 053 - Homily | Desert Of Decision (February 22, 2026)
We enter the inner desert to face the three subtle temptations of appetite, power and prestige, and to reorder what comes first. We argue that Lent is not deprivation but liberation when Christ holds the top place every day.• the desert...
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Episode 052 - Homily | Ash Wednesday Confronts Our Illusions And Calls Us Home (February 18, 2026)
We confront a culture of image and control with the sign of ashes and the call to return with our whole heart. We explore grace over self-improvement, secret practices over public applause, and a Lent that reorders life toward communion and res...
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Episode 051 - Homily | From Routine To Renewal: Why Your Choices Shape Your Soul (February 15, 2026)
We call each other to decide before Lent begins, moving from routine religion to a decisive love for Christ. We face life-and-death choices, renew our love for the Eucharist, and pursue interior conversion through forgiveness and confession.
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Episode 050 - Podcast | We Are Called to Be Salt & Light
We explore why Jesus names us salt, light, and a city on a hill, and how identity comes before mission. Practical steps show how small, visible acts preserve goodness, scatter darkness, and orient people toward God.• identity declared b...
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Episode 049 - Homily | We Are Called to Be Salt & Light (February 8, 2026)
We stand on the mountain with Jesus as he names who we already are: salt, light, a city meant for others. We explore how ordinary, public fidelity preserves good, exposes lies, and points people toward hope without noise or theatrics.• ...
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Episode 048 - Podcast | From Beatitudes To Action: Why Sacrificial Giving Shapes A Church That Cares
We read the Beatitudes and connect them to stewardship as a way of life, moving from control and fear toward trust, belonging, and joyful generosity. Stories from our parish and a visiting bishop from Ukraine show how giving unites a universal ...
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Episode 047 - Homily | From Beatitudes To Action: Why Sacrificial Giving Shapes A Church That Cares (February 1, 2026)
We explore how the Beatitudes move from admired words to a lived roadmap that asks for costly love and concrete action. From the first Christian collection to today’s archdiocesan appeal, we call our community to give in a way that shows trust,...
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Episode 046 - Homily | Jesus Enters Darkness So We Don’t Have To Pretend We’re Fine (January 25, 2026)
We trace why Jesus starts in Galilee’s shadows and what that says about our own hidden places, then move into the meaning of repentance as a hopeful change of direction because God is near. The call to follow moves from admiration to allegiance...
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Episode 045 - Homily | You Don’t Climb Out; You Reach Out (January 18, 2026)
We explore how spiritual danger often looks ordinary while the ground beneath us thins, and why striving harder can make us sink deeper. We point to grace as solid ground and to Jesus as the one who bears the weight we cannot.• hidden d...
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