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
201 episodes
Homily | July 16, 2026 | If The Burden Is Light, Why Am I Tired | (Episode 199)
We challenge the myth that following Christ makes life easy, and we explain why Jesus offers a lighter way to carry real burdens instead of pretending they are not there. We connect the Gospel image of the yoke with Isaiah, Saint Augustine, and...
Homily | July 15, 2026 | You Are Not The Author Of Your Gifts | (Episode 198)
We reflect on Isaiah’s image of the axe that boasts and expose how pride convinces us we are the source of our own success. We look to Saint Bonaventure and Jesus’ call to childlike faith to learn what real humility, teachability, and wisdom lo...
Homily | July 14, 2026 | Building A Life That Does Not Shake | (Episode 197)
We reflect on God’s warning to King Ahaz that a steady life depends on steady faith, especially when fear makes our hearts tremble. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and Jesus’ call to repentance push us to stop relying on fragile foundations and start r...
Homily | July 13, 2026 | God Wants Holiness More Than Offerings | (Episode 196)
We hear God’s blunt warning through Isaiah and face the possibility that our worship can become empty when it doesn’t change how we live. We unpack Jesus’ “sword” as a decision that forces real priorities, then end with a practical challenge to...
Homily | July 12, 2026 | God’s Love Does Not Wait For Perfect Soil | (Episode 195)
We notice the “reckless” sower first, because God’s generosity is bigger than His fear of waste and He never rations grace. We also face the harder truth that the seed is alive and powerful, so real growth depends on what we do with the soil of...
Homily | Español | July 12, 2026 | God Keeps Sowing Even On Hard Ground | (Episode 194)
God keeps sowing His Word every day, even into hearts that look like hard ground, rocky patches, and thorny corners. We take an honest look at what “good soil” means and why the faithful remnant can still change the ending of our story.
Homily | July 11, 2026 | God Invites, Grace Purifies, And We Respond | (Episode 193)
We trace the biblical pattern of vocation through Isaiah’s temple vision, where God’s holiness exposes weakness and grace turns it into a place of healing. We connect that same movement to Saint Benedict’s quiet rebuilding of a collapsing world...
Homily | July 10, 2026 | Return To Me | (Episode 192)
We center the whole spiritual life on one word: return, because God doesn’t ask us to earn our way back, he invites us home. We unpack how grace comes before growth and why Jesus calls us to endurance, not comfort. • returning to God a...
Homily | July 9, 2026 | When God Bends Down To Lift You Up | (Episode 191)
We linger on Hosea’s surprising image of God as a parent teaching a child to walk, lifting us up with patient love when we fall. We also face the slow drift of sin, rediscover God as our healer, and hear Jesus’ call to give freely because grace...
Homily | July 8, 2026 | God Does Not Need Perfect People To Work Through Them | (Episode 190)
We face a hard truth from Hosea: religion can look strong on the outside while our hearts stay divided on the inside. We also hear a hopeful path forward as God invites us to seek him now, let the hard ground break open, and receive Christ befo...
Homily | July 7, 2026 | How Small Choices Become Spiritual Habits | (Episode 189)
We reflect on a hard spiritual law from Hosea: what we sow through small daily choices is what we will harvest, for good or for harm. We also let the Gospel correct our vision as Jesus looks on the crowds with deep compassion and calls us to pr...
Homily | July 6, 2026 | A God Who Pursues The Human Heart | (Episode 188)
We ask what one sentence best captures the Bible, then land on a sharper answer: God never stops pursuing the human heart. From Hosea’s marriage imagery to Jesus’ tender attention to the forgotten, we trace how mercy takes the first step toward...
Homily | Español | July 5, 2026 | When Faith Feels Heavy And Jesus Says Come | (Episode 187)
We reflect on Jesus giving thanks to the Father while facing rejection and pressure, then we trace how that same faith can reshape our own frustration and fear. We hold onto Christ’s invitation to come back after every fall and discover why His...
Homily | July 5, 2026 | Freedom Under God | (Episode 186)
We trace American independence back to its deepest claim: unalienable rights come from the Creator, and freedom only survives when it stays tied to virtue. We connect the burdens we carry and the fatigue we see in the country to Christ’s invita...
Homily | July 4, 2026 | True Freedom Grows When We Choose Good | (Episode 185)
We pause on America’s 250th birthday to thank God for the real blessings of life in the United States while telling the truth about our imperfections. We connect freedom to truth and virtue, and we challenge ourselves to live a patriotism that ...
Homily | July 3, 2026 | Jesus Returns For The Disciple Who Struggles | (Episode 184)
We challenge the “Doubting Thomas” label by walking through the Gospel moments that show his courage, honesty, and hunger for truth. We also trace how Jesus responds to his struggle and how Thomas’ doubt becomes a doorway to the clearest confes...
Homily | July 2, 2026 | Heal The Soul First | (Episode 183)
We look to God to fix what hurts on the surface, but Jesus keeps steering us toward the deeper work of healing the soul. We trace that pattern through Amos’s unlikely calling and the paralytic’s surprise encounter with mercy, then land on why c...
Homily | July 1, 2026 | The Cost Of Real Worship | (Episode 182)
We wrestle with a piercing question from the readings: what are we unwilling to lose, even for Christ, and how do our choices reveal the answer. We connect Amos’s warning about hollow rituals to a Gospel scene where a town chooses financial sec...
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’...