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Anchored In The Lord
by Fr. David Neuschwander
Weekly homilies of Father David Neuschwander
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Chosen in Love
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (10/18/2026) This weekend at the 10:15 AM Mass, we'll celebrate a couple whose civil marriage is being convalidated in the Catholic Church. Through this sacrament, they're inviting God more fully into their marriage and having their union recognized by the Church.…
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Gut Check, Next Step
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (09/27/26) I don't like mornings. I'm not a morning person, and I never wake up happy. I have a sleep app that asks me to rate how I wake up: angry red, "blah" yellow, or happy green. After years of using it, I've never once chosen green. I'm permanently yellow. But…
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We're Growing - St. Joseph
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (08/30/26) Something is happening in our parish—and it's beautiful. We're growing: more young families, more baptisms, more people becoming Catholic, and more people coming home to the faith after years away. That doesn't happen by accident. It's the Holy Spirit…
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Deacon Brian: The Good News
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (8/23/2026) Fr. David often reminds us that the Sunday readings are connected, and today that connection is especially powerful. Isaiah tells us about the "key of the House of David" being given to Eliakim, while in today's Gospel, Jesus—the Son of David—gives the…
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Prayerful Generosity — CSA Appeal
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (08/16/26). This weekend is our Catholic Services Appeal, which helps our Diocese of Superior serve the people of Northern Wisconsin. Our goals this year are $69,650 for St. Joseph and $17,290 for St. Ann. We made our goals last year, and I'm confident we can do it...
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What Really Fills Us?
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time God doesn't just want to give us enough—He wants to fill us. Throughout Scripture, food is a sign of something much deeper: God satisfying the hunger of our hearts and souls. Even as Jesus grieved the death of John the Baptist and sought time alone in prayer, His…
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Pearl of Great Price
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Today's Gospel reminds us that God's kingdom is not a life free from suffering, but the certainty that God can bring good out of every hardship. Like the merchant who joyfully sold everything for the pearl of great price, we are invited to rediscover the incomparable...
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What Kind of Soil Will We Become?
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time In this homily on the Parable of the Sower, we're invited to stop asking, "What kind of soil am I?" and instead ask, "What kind of soil am I becoming?" God never stops sowing His grace into our lives, but the fruit we bear depends on the condition of our hearts....
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Taking Up Your Cross: Acceptance and Freedom
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time There's a world of difference between having a cross and taking up your cross. Drawing on Jacques Philippe's Interior Freedom, Fr. David shares the three ways we respond to suffering — rebellion, resignation, and consent — and why only one of them leads to peace. If...
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The Spirit is Alive Here!
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity On this Trinity Sunday, we celebrate not only the mystery of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but the living God who is actively at work among us today. In this homily, Fr. David reflects on the visible signs of the Holy Spirit moving in our parish...
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How Well Do You Know Jesus?
5th Sunday of Easter In this homily for the month of May, we reflect on Mary as the one who leads us closer to her Son, Jesus Christ—the Way, the Truth, and the Life. As spring brings new life and beauty to the world around us, we are invited to let this season become a spiritual springtime for…
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What If
3rd Sunday of Easter On the road to Emmaus, two disciples walk beside Jesus without even realizing it—until they urge the "stranger" to stay, and in the breaking of the bread their eyes are opened. How often does the same thing happen in our own lives? Moments when our hearts stir, when something...
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Burial Cloths
Easter Sunday This Easter, step into the tomb with Peter and John and notice the surprising detail the Gospel of John refuses to rush past: the burial cloths. Why are they mentioned twice? Because they point to something real—no theft, no resuscitation, but a body transformed. From that first...
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Entering into the Mass | 4th Sunday of Lent | 3/15/2026
Entering into the Mass, Part 3 – 4th Sunday of Lent (03/15/26) In Part 3 of this Lenten homily series, we reflect on how to enter more intentionally into the Mass. This week focuses on the Liturgy of the Word and the beginning of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, especially the Preparation of the...
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Entering into the Mass | Second Sunday of Lent | Father David Neuschwander
2nd Sunday of Lent (03/01/26) – Entering into the Mass, Part 1 Have you ever thought, "Mass is boring?" Many of us have felt that way at times. But the reality is that the Holy Mass is anything but boring. Often the challenge is that we haven't learned how to fully enter into what is happening.…
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Turn Away From Sin, Follow Jesus, Go Fishing | 3rd Sunday in OT | Jan 25, 2026
Turn Away From Sin, Follow Jesus, Go Fishing In this episode of Anchored in the Lord, we reflect on the Gospel for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 25, 2026) and Jesus' first public words of ministry: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." These words reveal that the Christian…
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Following the Star - I saw the Sign
This Epiphany homily reflects on the journey of the Three Wise Men, who were led by a simple but powerful sign—a star—to the newborn Christ. Though the sign was visible to all, only a few chose to follow it. Ancient prophecies foretold their arrival, and after months of searching, the Magi…
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Feast of the Holy Family
Feast of the Holy Family – Holy and Ordinary (December 28, 2025) On the Feast of the Holy Family, we reflect on a powerful truth: holiness is found not in extraordinary places, but in ordinary family life. Jesus chose to grow within a real human family—one marked by love, sacrifice,...
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O Little Town of Bethlehem | Christmas 2025
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Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran | Nov 11, 2025
Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran — The Last Rites (Summary) This weekend in our series Arise: On Death and Dying, we reflect on one of the most consoling and misunderstood gifts of the Church at the end of life: the Last Rites. And right away—what I say at the end I'll say at the...
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Daily Consistent Prayer. | 29th Sunday in OT | Oct 19, 2025
Father David's Homily this week focuses on daily consistent prayer without getting weird! Our readings for October 19, 2025 (the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time) focus on perseverance in prayer and faith. Key themes include: God will grant justice to his chosen ones who call out to him day and…
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Put On Your Nikes – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Put On Your Nikes – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Oct. 12, 2025) This week's homily invites us to look at two powerful moments of healing — Naaman the leper in the Old Testament and the ten lepers who call out to Jesus in the Gospel. Both stories reveal the same truth: God's power often moves...
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What Do I Spend My Time Thinking About?
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sept. 21, 2025) — What Do I Spend My Time Thinking About? This weekend, we're asked to pause and pay attention to our own thoughts: What do I actually spend the most time focusing on each day? Is it worries about the world, struggles at home or work, or concerns for...
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Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: How Should Christians Respond?
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross — How Should Christians Respond? 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sept. 14, 2025) This weekend, we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Cross, once a sign of suffering and death, has become for us the ultimate sign of hope: the place...
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Retirement: for Me or For God?
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 08/03/25 Retirement: For Me or For God? In today's Gospel, Jesus tells of a wealthy man who stored up riches for himself, only to be called a fool by God—not for working hard, but for forgetting eternity. He lived as though his future belonged to him, not to God.…
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Wanting to Want "All"
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (07/13/25) Wanting to Want "All" In this episode, we reflect on Jesus' call to love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind—a total, undivided love. We ask the honest question: Do I really love God with all, or just a lot, a majority, or maybe only some? This...
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True Freedom | 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time | 07/06/25
This week, we reflect on the meaning of freedom—not just as Americans celebrating Independence Day, but as Christians sent into the world. True freedom isn't about doing whatever we want; it's the gift of choosing love, sacrifice, and God's will. In the Gospel, Jesus sends out seventy-two…
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Pray for Us
Solemnity of Saints Peters and Paul We are not on this journey of faith alone. We turn to each other so naturally when we need help, especially to our friends and family. The saints are our friends in heaven, our family in heaven; they are alive in Christ! So ask for their help, their prayers,...
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Great Things!
Pentecost Sunday God is doing great things here in our family of parishes! More people are coming to Church; more young couples are attending Mass; more kids are being baptized; more families are joining the Church; more people are becoming Catholic — great things are happening here because of…
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Ascending
Ascension Sunday We are called to follow where Christ our Savior went first. We, like Jesus, are called to be light enough to ascend to the Father: some things weigh us down, and some things raise us up. Do you ever feel heavy? Do you ever feel weighed down? Jesus wants to lighten your load. Ask...
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"Thank You, God"
6th Sunday of Easter On this Memorial Day Weekend, we give thanks to God for the lives we are able to live in our country as we remember those who have died while serving in our Armed Forces, protecting us and upholding the rights and liberties which we enjoy here and now; we remember them and we...
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Habemus Papam-We Have a Pope!
4th Sunday of Easter Just a few days ago, on Thursday, May 8th, something happened that I never thought I would see in my lifetime: Habemus Papam! We have a Pope! …And he's American! Robert Francis Prevost is a native of Chicago; an Augustinian priest (a religious order priest) who spent much of...
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Roll Away the Stone
Easter Sunday "Roll away the stone. See the glory of God. Roll away the stone." What stones are still blocking the tomb of your heart? This Easter, God wants to roll those stones away. Christ doesn't roll it away to shame us—He rolls it away so that He can enter in. Just as He stepped out of the...
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Looking Ahead
5th Sunday of Lent "Then Jesus said, 'Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.'" "Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new!" "forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead,"
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How Awake Are We?
2nd Sunday of Lent In our Gospel today, Jesus takes Peter, James and John up a mountain, and He is transfigured before them, they get a glimpse of the dazzling bright white glory of Jesus' divinity, a foretaste of heaven and of who we are called to be! But our Gospel today says, "Peter and his...
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How Do I Consume Media?
1st Sunday of Lent On this Safe Haven Sunday, we are asked to to, first and foremost, make the home a safe haven for our kids by taking practical steps to help our kids engage technology in holy and virtuous ways and, inasmuch as possible, protect them from exposure to explicit content. This is...
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Missionary Disciple
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus calls us to be transformed, to be renewed in mind and action, to look and act differently than others normally do: this theme runs through all of our readings. Yes, we are called to be disciples of Jesus, but our mission is more than just following Jesus as a...
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The Willing Ones
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time What does our world need? Whom does God seek? Not the "perfect" or the "sinless", but the willing. No matter how unworthy we are, He calls us, and when we willingly say "yes," He cleanses us, and He strengthens us to go on whatever mission He has planned for us. This...
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Baptized: Children of the Father
Baptism of the Lord When we are baptized in the waters, we are adopted into God's family and actually become, in Jesus, children of the Father. Baptism happens once and is the doorway to the other sacraments. Receiving the Eucharist (which we do again and again and again) is becoming who we are:...
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Eucharistic Prayer
Epiphany How do I come to Mass?
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The Little Drummer Boy
Merry Christmas! Come, they told me — pa rum pum pum pum A newborn King to see — pa rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring — pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the King — pa rum pum pum pum Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum. So to honor Him — pa rum pum pum pum When we come.
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Part 3/4: Rescued with Joy
3rd Sunday of Advent We were created by God for the kingdom of eternal life with him; by our own free choices to turn away from God and 'go at it on our own' we've been captured by the kingdom of sin, death, darkness and Satan. Jesus becoming a baby at Christmas is the invasion of one kingdom…
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A Peace This World Cannot Give
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 3 Levels of the Heart God wants to give us peace at the deepest level, a peace which endures all things.
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Part 1/4: Created in Hope
1st Sunday of Advent During this Advent season we will be doing a 4-part homily series as we Journey to the Manger together to welcome the Christ-child at Christmas. Our story starts with God's incredible creation - of the universe, and of each of us - and the hope that it promises. As Fr.…
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Advent: Journey to the Manger
Solemnity of Christ the King Together, during this Advent season, all 5 of our parishes (along with Christians throughout the world) prepare to welcome Jesus into our hearts and homes in new and deeper ways, and as we are practicing hospitality in opening our hearts and homes to God, let us also...
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Hudson: Post-Election
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time I want to talk about 2 things today: How do we as Catholics respond to an election? What will actually change our country for the better? This weekend I preached in my hometown of Hudson, Wisconsin, at the parish of St. Patrick where I grew up. It was a blessing to be...
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"God, what do You want me to do for You?"
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus asks Bartimaeus today, "What do you want me to do for you?" Bartimaeus's request is granted, he receives his sight, and he follows Jesus on the way. Being a disciple of Jesus is being in a relationship with Jesus, and a relationship is a two-way street. When…
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The Typewriter
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Life in a fallen world brings us all plenty of suffering, and our readings today take up that theme of suffering. Our sufferings - wether mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, or some combination thereof - have varying levels, but the key to all of it is that I have…
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Upside Down, Right Side Up
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time The famous architect Antoni Gaudi designed the incredible basilica of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, which has been under construction for 128 years. A genius of architecture, he built a model of the church with strings...UPSIDE DOWN...to find and test balance…
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Whose Side Are You On?
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time The people in our first reading today, the Israelites, are at a decision point — they need to decide whom they will follow. This ancient Biblical situation is wildly applicable for us today. November 5th is the upcoming presidential election. Everyone is getting so...
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