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
289 episodes
Homily | September 26, 2026 | Remember Your Creator Today (Episode 285)
We sit with Ecclesiastes’ blunt honesty about aging and death, then discover how that truth can wake us up instead of crushing us. We connect the witness of Saints Cosmos and Damien and Jesus’ words about the cross to a practical question: what...
Homily | September 25, 2026 | Finding God In Every Season Of Change (Episode 284)
We sit with Ecclesiastes and the hard truth that every life has seasons that change, including seasons we would never choose. We name the eternal ache underneath our fear of loss and learn how faith looks when nothing makes sense. • Ec...
Homily | September 24, 2026 | Curiosity Isn’t Faith (Episode 283)
We sit with Herod’s restless desire to “see Jesus” and uncover why curiosity can look holy while still refusing conversion. We trace how a haunted conscience, a demand for spectacle, and Jesus’ silence expose the difference between knowing abou...
Homily | September 23, 2026 | Padre Pio And Real Change (Episode 282)
Padre Pio’s miracles draw crowds, but his real mission is bringing people back to Jesus Christ through prayer, the Eucharist, and confession. We wrestle with the difference between comfort and conversion, and we end with a direct question about...
Podcast | The Vineyard Parable And The Trap Of Comparison (Episode 280)
We wrestle with why the vineyard parable feels unfair, then realize Jesus is not teaching economics but revealing how grace works in the Kingdom of God. We challenge our habit of keeping score with God and each other, and we end with a better q...
Homily | September 21, 2026 | How Jesus Sees The Person Behind The Past (Episode 279)
Jesus looks straight at Matthew the tax collector and calls him without conditions, proving grace does not let the past write the last line. We trace how Matthew’s conversion becomes a mission and how the faith we receive is meant to be handed ...
Homily | September 20, 2026 | The Vineyard Parable And The Trap Of Comparison (Episode 278)
We name the quiet resentment behind “that’s not fair” and trace how comparison turns faith into scorekeeping. We walk through Jesus’ vineyard parable and rediscover a God whose generosity gives mercy, grace, and Himself. • the adult ve...
Homily | Español | September 20, 2026 | Grace Is A Gift (Episode 277)
We reflect on why God’s grace is never a reward we earn but a gift that meets us in the present moment. We connect Isaiah’s urgent invitation to return with Jesus’ vineyard parable, especially for anyone who feels overlooked, late, or tempted t...
Homily | September 19, 2026 | Planted, Not Lost (Episode 276)
We look at a grave and refuse to call it the last word, because Christianity sees planting where the world sees only loss. We connect Saint Paul’s seed image, the witness of Saint Januarius, and Jesus’ parable of the sower to show how persevera...
Homily | September 18, 2026 | The Heartbeat Of Christianity (Episode 275)
We name the charygma as the essential proclamation at the heart of Christianity and why faith begins with an announcement, not a self-improvement plan. We lean on St Paul’s radical claim that if Christ has not been raised then everything collap...
Homily | September 17, 2026 | Grace From Head To Heart (Episode 274)
We reflect on Saint Robert Bellarmine’s sharp mind and the uncomfortable truth that religious knowledge can still fail to change the heart. We sit with Simon the Pharisee, the weeping woman, and Saint Paul to ask one direct question: what has g...
Homily | September 16, 2026 | Mercy After Failure (Episode 273)
We wrestle with the early Church’s toughest question: what to do with Christians who failed under persecution and wanted to return. We follow Saints Cornelius and Cyprian as they defend real repentance, real penance, and real mercy without lowe...
Homily | September 15, 2026 | Our Lady Of Sorrows And The Love That Stays (Episode 272)
We reflect on Our Lady of Sorrows and the single word that changes everything: Mary stands by the cross. We talk about the kind of Christian love that stays when we cannot fix the suffering in front of us. • Mary’s silence and steadine...
Podcast | Forgiveness Is The Moment You Stop Counting (Episode 271)
We sit with Jesus’ hardest command: forgive from your heart. We name why resentment feels like protection, how boundaries fit with mercy, and how real freedom begins when we stop letting the past write the future. • Peter’s question an...
Homily | September 14, 2026 | Lift Your Eyes (Episode 270)
We lift up the cross because what looked like defeat becomes victory and what looked like God’s absence becomes the clearest proof of God’s love. We talk about where we look when life hurts and how Christ meets us inside the suffering we cannot...
Homily | September 13, 2026 | Forgiveness Is The Moment You Stop Counting (Episode 269)
We talk about the strange way we can “hug” anger and keep old wounds close, even while asking God to heal us. We wrestle with Jesus’ call to forgive as a path to freedom, not a way to excuse harm or erase justice. • the uncomfortab...
Homily | Español | September 13, 2026 | Letting Go Of Resentment (Episode 268)
We wrestle with why forgiveness is commanded even when the wound is real, and how resentment can quietly take over our inner life. We connect Sirach’s wisdom and Jesus’ teaching to show how mercy becomes freedom when we stop keeping score and s...
Homily | September 12, 2026 | Built On The Rock (Episode 267)
Some names carry a whole relationship, and the Church holds the name of Mary that way because her life becomes a lasting yes to God. We ask what our prayer actually produces and how Marian devotion leads us to a life rooted in Christ and nouris...
Homily | September 11, 2026 | The Gospel Must Become A Mirror Before It Becomes A Message (Episode 266)
We pray a simple line, “Lord, open my eyes,” and face the hard truth that God may show us what we would rather avoid in ourselves. We explore Jesus’ warning about specks and beams so our correction becomes clear, humble, and loving instead of s...
Homily | September 10, 2026 | Beneath The Cross (Episode 265)
We reach the last day of our pilgrimage and face a sharper question than how far we climbed: what are we willing to surrender beneath the cross. We get painfully specific about resentment and forgiveness, and we come to Jesus in the Eucharist a...
Homily | September 9, 2026 | What Lasts When Everything Passes Away (Episode 264)
The sentence we can’t escape today is as direct as it is merciful: “The world in its present form is passing away.” We sit with what that means for the things we spend our lives chasing or protecting: the house, the paycheck, the title, the rep...
Homily | September 8, 2026 | Medjugorje And Mary’s Quiet Beginnings (Episode 263)
We arrive in Medjugorje on the Church’s feast of Mary’s birth and reflect on how God often begins His greatest works quietly, far from the world’s spotlight. We name the visible fruits of conversion we see here and bring our prayers for Cuba, B...
Homily | September 7, 2026 | Stretch Out The Other Hand (Episode 262)
We notice how the same broken person can be seen with mercy or used as evidence, and we ask what that reveals about our own hearts. We connect St. Paul’s hard truth about sin to a deeper goal of salvation, then hear Jesus invite us to bring for...
Homily | September 6, 2026 | Love That Comes After You (Episode 261)
We ask a personal question that exposes what real love looks like: who came after us when we were drifting, and why. We connect Scripture’s “watchman” and “brother’s keeper” to practical ways we speak truth, avoid shame, and trust God without t...