Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Parish

Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church

‘Arrodillarnos como los magos ante el Niño de Belén significa, también para nosotros, confesar que hemos encontrado la verdadera humanidad, en la que resplandece la gloria de Dios. En Jesús ha aparecido la verdadera vida, el hombre viviente, es decir, aquel que no existe para sí mismo, sino abierto y en comunión, lo que nos hace decir: «en la tierra como en el cielo». Sí, la vida divina ahora está a nuestro alcance, se ha manifestado para involucrarnos en su dinamismo liberador que disipa los miedos y nos hace encontrarnos en la paz. Es una posibilidad, una invitación: la comunión no puede ser impuesta, pero, ¿qué más se podría desear?' --Papa León XIV

Estamos entusiasmados de ofrecer nuevas formas de formación y discernimiento a los jóvenes de la parroquia de Blessed Sacrament.

We are delighted to be able to bring new forms of formation and discernment to the boys and girls of Blessed Sacrament Parish.

Requiescant in pace

Please join us at Blessed Sacrament for a great celebration, today's homily notwithstanding! 2203 Parallel Ave, Kansas City, KS 66104The Fiesta will have live music, folk dancing, plenty of excellent food made from scratch (including my venison burgers), and plenty of enjoyment for the whole family. Dance from 9-11 pm with a donation for cover!

Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Church

"While she lived at Jorundgaard, she had never thought otherwise than that her parents’ whole life and everything they did was for the sake of her and her sisters. Now she seemed to realize that great currents of both sorrow and joy had flowed between these two people, who had been given to each other in their youth by their fathers, without being asked. And she knew nothing of this except that they had departed from her life together. Now she understood that these lives of these two people had contained much more than love for their children. And yet that love had been strong and wide and unfathomably deep; while the love shegave them in return was weak and thoughtless and selfish, even back in her childhood when her parents were her whole world. She seemed to see herself standing far, far away—so small at that distance of time and place. She was standing in the flood of sunlight streaming in through the smoke vent in the old hearth house back home, the winter house of her childhood. Her parents were standing back in the shadows, and they seemed to tower over her, as tall as they had been when she was small. They were smiling at her, in the way she now knew one smiles at a little child who comes and pushes aside dark and burdensome thoughts. “I thought, Kristin, that once you had children of your own, then you would better understand . . . .” She remembered when her mother said those words. Sorrowfully, the daughter thought that she still didn’t understand her mother. But now she was beginning to realize how much she didn’t understand." --Sigred Undset, Kristen Lavransdatter

Delivered at Christ the King Church

"In all the teaching of Saint John of the Cross, despite the forbidding features of its radical demands, hides a poet of sanctity who has fallen in love with God, even helplessly so. The Church may call him the Mystical Doctor in recognition of the superlative teaching in his four major treatises; yet the weight of that title is not entirely helpful. He is not proposing a speculative doctrine of mystical ascent to be mastered by careful study and strict application. Abstraction has little place or purpose in his writing, even as he makes every effort to clarify in precise language what may often me impossible lessons to convey to a reader lacking experience of what he is elucidating. Simply reading once through his work will never disclose his teaching adequately. At some point, he has to become a very loved mentor to whom one turns with increasing need over the course of years, or else he slips away quietly and will be forgotten, as he was apparently forgotten by many in his own lifetime. But if he is embraced as a trusted guide, and his direction is accepted, he can become a companion who pushes and prods us to a mysterious, unsettling desire for God, which is only a start toward greater effects over time. If he remains a friend for many years, a hunger and fire in our soul for God far beyond any initial expectation of spiritual pursuit is bound to ignite within us." --Father Donald Haggerty

The Yes of Jesus ChristComposed as as retreat talks for priests of Communion and Liberation at the invitation of Don Giussani in 1986

El Arzobispo publicó mas comentarios en su articulo semanal:https://archkck.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PIP-2025-Feb17-BA-Spanish-Translations-of-Leaven-Articles-JFN-Column-Jan.-2025.pdf

A quick overview of the amazing feat of medieval engineering described in the homily: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1879513926486139232.html

Tú tienes, Señor, palabras de vida eterna.

Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Church

Learn more about the marvelous work of Joseph and Monique Gonzalez at www.guadalupeflowerworldprophecy.com

Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS

Pray for missionaries

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IVF has been in the news lately. What does it have to do with any of us?

Dada en la parroquia de Blessed Sacrament, Kansas City, KS

For the bulletin referenced in the homily, visit: https://container.parishesonline.com/bulletins/02/0573/20240818B.pdf - Delivered at Christ the King, Kansas City, KS

Year B. Week 16. Benedict XVI. Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS

Delivered at Christ the King, Kansas City, KS

Delivered at Christ the King Church

Delivered at Blessed Sacrament on the 4th Sunday of Easter

A brief article on the school's closure may be found on the Archdiocesan newspaper's website, The Leaven: https://theleaven.org/lack-of-financial-support-leads-to-closing-of-kck-school/

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,my memory, my understanding,and my entire will,All I have and call my own.You have given all to me.To you, Lord, I return it.Everything is yours; do with it what you will.Give me only your love and your grace,that is enough for me. (republished from 2021)

"Events happen to us pleasant or painful; we do not know at the time the meaning of them, we do not see God's hand in them. If indeed we have faith, we confess what we do not see, and take all that happens as His; but whether we will accept it in faith or not, certainly there is no other way of accepting it. We see nothing. We see not why things come, or whither they tend. Jacob cried out on one occasion, "All these things are against me;" [Gen. xlii. 36.] certainly so they seemed to be. One son made away with by the rest, another in prison in a foreign land, a third demanded;—"Me have ye bereaved of my children; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me." Yet all these things were working for good. Or pursue the fortunes of the favourite and holy youth who was the first taken from him; sold by his brethren to strangers, carried into Egypt, tempted by a very perilous temptation, overcoming it but not rewarded, thrown into prison, the iron entering into his soul, waiting there till the Lord should be gracious, and "look down from heaven;" but waiting—why? and how long? It is said again and again in the sacred narrative, "The Lord was with Joseph;" but do you think he saw at the time any tokens of God? any tokens, except so far as by faith he realized them, in faith he saw them? His faith was its own reward; which to the eye of reason was no reward at all, for faith forsooth did but judge of things by that standard which it had originally set up, and pronounce that Joseph was happy because he ought to be so. Thus though the Lord was with him, apparently all things were against him. Yet afterwards he saw, what was so mysterious at the time;—"God did send me before you," he said to his brethren, "to preserve life ... It was not you that sent me hither, but God; and He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt"… --Saint John Henry Newman, The Darkness of Faith

La importancia de una formación verdaderamente católica

“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.” —Saint John of the Cross

"There are those who, while they recognize the glory of God as well as the importance of man and the call addressed to him in general, believe in false humility, that the call is meant for all others but not for their own person. They deem their own person too wretched to dare assume that they may refer the divine call to themselves. They would hide in a corner and play the part of mere onlookers. The sight of their wretchedness impels them to exclude themselves from the great dialogue between God and man. This ostensible excess of humility, for all the diffidence it involves, is not free of an element of pride. For here, once more, man presumes to decide himself where he stands, instead of leaving that decision to God. Yet, this is precisely the test of true humility, that one no longer presumes to judge whether or not one is too miserable to be included in the call to sanctity but simply answers the merciful love of God by sinking down in adoration." -- Dietrich von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." G.K. Chesterton

Delivered at Christ the King, Kansas City, KS

Feliz y Santa Navidad a todos

Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS

It's darkest just before dawn https://www.ctkkcks.org/33-days-morning-glory

I forgot to acknowledge the wonderful essay by Tom Hoopes of Benedictine College for most of the content for this homily. View it here: https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-forgiveness-is-hard-correction-is-harder-one-thing-is-needed?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=273424581&utm_content=273424581&utm_source=hs_email

Noble no es el alma que nada hiere, sino la que pronto sana. --Don Colacho

The C.S. Lewis "Doodle" can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtTeCyrgjIQ

Extended quotation taken from True Leadership by The Habiger Institute Available from Cluny Media: https://clunymedia.com/products/true-leadership?_pos=1&_sid=cdf28fddb&_ss=r

"The more I buy, the more I'm bought / and the more I'm bought, the less I cost" --Joe Pug, "Hymn #109"

Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, was above all a preacher of God's Word. Much of his priesthood, episcopacy, and papacy was dedicated to opening the Scriptures so that they could bring life to the faithful. His formulation of the Law of the Gift offers us the chance to consider the ways in which we approach life as a game to be played rather than a gift to be shared, and to be converted to the full truth of the Gospel.

“Jesus wants me to tell you again, especially in this Holy Week, how much is the love He has for each one of you – beyond all you can imagine.  I worry some of you still have not really met Jesus – one to one – you and Jesus alone. We may spend time in chapel – but have you seen with eyes of your soul how He looks at you with love?  Do you really know the living Jesus – not from books but from being with Him in your heart?  Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?  Ask for the grace, He is longing simply to give it.  Until you can hear Jesus in the silence of your own heart, you will not be able to hear Him saying ‘I Thirst’ in the hearts of the poor.  Never give up this intimate contact with Jesus as a real living person – not just an idea.  How can we last even one day living our life without hearing Jesus say ‘I love you’ – impossible.  Our soul needs that as much as the body needs to breathe the air.  If not, prayer is dead – meditation only thinking.” --Mother Teresa, "Varanasi Letter"

Delivered at Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Topeka, KS 9 June 2023 Congratulations and prayers to Mr. and Mrs. Gentry

First, thank you for your prayers for the principal search. I am pleased to announce we have hired a principal for the coming school year, Alex Weibel. Read about it at https://telegra.ph/Welcome-Alex-Weibel-as-Principal-of-Christ-the-King-School-05-20 Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalen went to the tomb, and found the stone moved away from the tomb door. So she came running to Simon Peter, and that other disciple, whom Jesus loved; They have carried the Lord away from the tomb, she said to them, and we cannot tell where they have taken him... The disciples went back home; but Mary stood without before the tomb, weeping. And she bent down, still weeping, and looked into the tomb; and saw two angels clothed in white sitting there, one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They said to her, Woman, why art thou weeping? Because they have carried away my Lord, she said, and I cannot tell where they have taken him. Saying this, she turned round, and saw Jesus standing there, without knowing that it was Jesus. Woman, Jesus said to her, why art thou weeping? For whom art thou searching? She supposed that it must be the gardener, and said to him, If it is thou, Sir, that hast carried him off, tell me where thou hast put him, and I will take him away. Jesus said to her, Mary. And she turned and said to him, Rabboni (which is the Hebrew for Master). Then Jesus said, Do not cling to me thus; I have not yet gone up to my Father’s side. Return to my brethren, and tell them this; I am going up to him who is my Father and your Father, who is my God and your God. John 20:1-2, 10-17

What I need is the meekness by which the prince of this world is destroyed. -- Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Delivered at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, Kansas City, MO 29 April 2023 Congratulations and prayers to Mr. and Mrs. Khadivi