St. Patrick Catholic Parish Podcast
Homilies, Chapel Chats, and more from the largest Catholic parish in Brighton, Michigan.
Episodes
In this homily given at St. Pat's on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 Fr. Joshua Fons explores the critical question: what is worthy of the offering of your life? This is the heart of every vocation: finding someone worth giving everything for, every day. In the scriptures this weekend, we see Jesus allowing Peter to give that offering of his life to the Lord again after his betrayal: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" The L...
In this homily given on April 27, 2025 (Divine Mercy Sunday) Fr Mathias highlights the fact that all the lay faithful are called to be apostles of mercy to those around them. After reminding them that we need to receive mercy in order to give mercy, Father offers three tips to become compelling apostles of mercy:
1) Speak freely about God's mercy in your own life
2) Be merciful towards those who don't deserve...
In this homily, given Palm Sunday, 2025, Dcn. Josh breaks down the meaning of compassion: to suffer with. As we enter into Holy Week, we have an opportunity to have compassion on Christ, who had compassion on us first.
On the 5th Sunday of Lent, April 6th, 2025, Fr. Joshua Fons dives into the question "when do we get old?" It's not just a certain number of years, or a lack of hair, it's when we stop believing life has anything new to offer. And nothing ages the human heart like sin, and the acceptance of sin. But there is good news: the Lord wants to bring renewal to your heart, just like he did with the woman caught in adulte...
In this brief homily given on March 23, 2025, Fr Mathias preaches on the relationship between our desires for things in this life and our ultimate desire for God who alone can fulfill us. He ends his homily with an exhortation to call on the Holy Spirit, the living water, to fill us.
In this homily given on March 16, 2025 Fr Mathias breaks down St Peter's warning to the Christians in Philippi and applies it to us today. After all, who we allow to influence us through media or in person matters a lot.
Father Mathias offers three criteria for discerning the bad influencers in our lives. This helps us to have the clarity of mind and heart to pursue heaven and helps us to be better to fulfill our m...
On the first Sunday of Lent, Fr. Joshua Fons unpacks the temptation of Jesus in the Desert, showing how Christ faced these temptations because He knew we would face them to. Just as with Christ, the Devil tries to attack our identity as beloved sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, trying to get us to lose trust in our loving God. But Jesus has better plans for us, and shows us how to defeat the Devil's lies.
In this homily, given Sunday, March 2nd, 2025, Dcn. Josh explains the importance of preparing for Easter, which is accomplished by entering into Lent well. And if Easter is worth preparing for, then it is worth having a plan for Lent.
He then suggests two ways to discern what to commit to this Lent. The first is to discern using the three pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. The second is to do a review of li...
In this homily given on February 23rd, 2025 Fr Mathias preaches on the high standard of love that Jesus calls us to: to love our enemies. When it comes to our love, we are meant to be different from those around us. But when we take our eyes off of Jesus and his standard of love, we begin to compare ourselves with lukewarm Catholics and the culture around us and falsely conclude we're living up to the kind of love Jesus call...
In this homily given on Sunday, February 16th, 2025 Father Joshua Fons explores the timeless Christian theme of the Two Ways: one way that leads to eternal life, and one way that leads to destruction. Tying together the Scriptures, and his own hiking experience, he exhorts us to walk in the way of the Lord.
In this homily given on February 9th, 2025 Fr Mathias preaches about the common experience of becoming aware of our unworthiness when God draws near to us. Just as Jesus tells Peter to not be afraid when he encounters the presence of God in the miracle of the fish, Jesus tells us not to be afraid when we suddenly become aware of our sin and unworthiness in his presence. God does not call the worthy, he makes worthy the called. Rat...
On the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord (February 2nd, 2025), Father Joshua Fons explores Simeon's proclamation, a prayer that is prayed by thousands and thousands around the world as part of Night Prayer each night. Simeon saw God's promises for the Salvation of His People coming to pass right before his very eyes, and if we have the eyes to see the same is true for us. This is particularly true through the Sacramen...
In this homily, given Sunday, January 19th, 2025, Dcn. Josh walks through Scripture, from beginning to end, showing that God used marriage to reveal who he is and the relationship he wants with us. God still reveals himself through marriage today. Your marriage is meant to be an icon of God himself: a communion of persons founded on mutual love.
On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Fr. Joshua Fons speaks about expectations: the expectations the Jewish people had, and the expectations we have for how God will act. He invites us to consider how our own expectations, particularly the way our hearts break for the brokenness of the world around us, might be the very place that the Lord is inviting us into His Mission.
In this homily given on January 5th, 2025 (Solemnity of the Epiphany) Fr Mathias preaches about the moral reason why some people don't find God: they aren't sincerely looking for him. God meets the Magi where they were and they expended great effort to find the King (and God) they were looking for. After outlining the predicament of unbelievers who aren't searching for God, Father encourages us on how we can perseve...
On Gaudete Sunday, December 15th, 2024, Fr. Joshua Fons explains why priests wear pink: to Rejoice. And why do we rejoice? Because God is rejoicing in us. Like a Father rejoicing and delighting in his son, God rejoices and delights in us.
In this short homily given on December 8th, 2024, Fr Mathias preaches briefly on preparing the way of the Lord this Advent through repentance. If repentance is about changing the way we think (which changes the way we live), then we need to be aware of who is influencing us how to think. Since it's easy to think like the world and desire what the world wants, Father challenges us to identify who is influencing us the way we th...
On the first Sunday of Advent, December 1st, 2024 Father Joshua Fons calls us to wake up, because Jesus is coming! Did you know that Advent isn't just about Christ's coming on Christmas? It is also a time to prepare for his second coming, and for when he comes into our daily lives. Will you be ready when He comes?
Because Jesus is the King of Love, You Can Face Anything Difficult in Your Life | Fr. Mathias Thelen
In this homily given on November 24th, 2024, the Solemnity of Christ the King, Fr Mathias preaches on how Jesus is a King of Love and its implication for areas of our lives we don't want to face. Because his kingship is about loving and saving us, we don't have to live in denial about difficult truths in life. Father encourages parishioners who are tempted to avoid difficult truths by reminding them of Jesus' love fo...
In this homily given at St. Pat's on Sunday, November 17th 2024, Father Joshua Fons exhorts parents to consider what the greatest gift they received as children from their parents, and what in turn could they give to their own children. From his own experience, Father shares about how one of the greatest gifts his parents gave to him was his Catholic Education, and that it was this experience that played a crucial role in his ...
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