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
81 episodes
Homily | April 5, 2026 | What It Would Take To Believe In The Resurrection (Episode 79)
We ask what it would take to truly believe the resurrection is a real event, not a nice tradition or an inspiring metaphor. We follow the empty tomb from confusion and fear to testimony that changes everything and we invite you to step into a f...
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Homily Easter Vigil | April 4, 2026 | The Empty Tomb Changes Everything For You Tonight (Episode 78)
Tonight we name the turning point of the Christian story and proclaim that Jesus Christ is risen, which means darkness and death do not get the final word. We challenge ourselves to stop living as though the tomb is still sealed and to step int...
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7 Last Words Service | April 3, 2026 | Jesus Speaks From The Cross & Calls You By Name (Episode 77)
We slow down for a Good Friday meditation on the Seven Last Words, hearing the cross as love entering human suffering from the inside. We sit beneath those seven statements until they stop sounding like accusation and start sounding like a pers...
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Homily | April 3, 2026 | Good Friday And The God Who Enters Darkness (Episode 76)
We go deeper into Good Friday and refuse to treat the Passion like a moment that only stirs emotion. We name the cry “Where are you, God?” and meet the shocking claim that Jesus enters our darkness and answers with mercy. • Good Friday...
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Homily | April 2, 2026 | Holy Thursday And The Love That Gets Close (Episode 75)
We step into the upper room and face a love that refuses to stay polite or distant. We wrestle with what it means to let Jesus wash what we hide and to receive the Eucharist as a real, personal gift that demands a real response. • imag...
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Homily | April 1, 2026 | Betrayal Starts Long Before The Kiss (Episode 74)
Spy Wednesday draws a hard line between surrender and calculation, placing Jesus’ obedient openness beside Judas’ quiet decision to betray. We sit with the question that matters most in Holy Week: not what we say, but where our heart is leaning...
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Homily | March 31, 2026 | When Disciples Fail And Mercy Waits (Episode 73)
Tuesday of Holy Week gets painfully honest about discouragement, betrayal, and the gap between who we think we are and who we really are. We sit with Judas and Peter at the same table and face the choice to run from mercy or run toward it. ...
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Podcast | Holy Week Starts In Your Heart (Episode 72)
Holy Week stops being a story we remember and becomes a love we receive when we let the Passion get personal. We wrestle with the Palm Sunday crowd, our own mixed hearts, and practical ways to walk with Jesus all week long. • Palm Sund...
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Homily | March 30, 2026 | Are You Loving Or Managing Jesus? (Episode 71)
Holy Week slows our pace and sharpens our focus as we watch God’s power show up as gentleness rather than domination. We sit with Mary’s costly love and Judas’s careful objections until the question lands on us: are we loving Jesus or managing ...
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Homily | March 29, 2026 | Holy Week Starts In Your Heart (Episode 70)
Holy Week begins as something personal, not symbolic, because the Passion is not only about what happens to Jesus but what happens inside us. We face the hard truth of how quickly we can praise God and then push him away, and we decide whether ...
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Homily | March 27, 2026 | Faith Gets Tested When Truth Gets Clear (Episode 69)
Friends can watch for your misstep, truth can provoke resistance, and faith gets real the moment it costs you something. We connect Jeremiah’s suffering to Jesus’ confrontation in the Gospel and challenge ourselves to stop delaying the surrende...
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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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