Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us Fan MailFollowing Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, August 30 @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/[email protected] substack posts this week.Homily for Wednesday 21st week in Ordinary TimeHomily for Friday 21st week in Ordinary Time

Send us Fan MailWhen we were getting ready to build our new church, we wanted to give away a portion of our new church to the poor. We partnered with Habitat for Humanity and built a house for the poor before we built our new house for the church.I have Mass on Sunday, August 23, at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected] Substack posts last week: The Lord is My ShepherdLove Your Neighbor as Yourself

Send us Fan MailMom died July 30, 2026. She will be buried at Square Lake Cemetery in Lake Orion on October 17, 2026, on what would have been her 100th birthday.https://www.kroegerfuneralhome.com/obituary/[email protected]

Send us Fan Mail“Have mercy.” In Deuteronomy 7,  God explicitly tells the Israelites to "show no mercy.” Yet here is a Canaanite begging for just what her people were denied. I am away this [email protected]

Send us Fan MailDo you remember the moment, a little over 6 years ago, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Pope Francis gave a unique Urbi et Orbi blessing. He ascended the rainy steps of Saint Peter's Basilica alone, praying for the world and blessing it with the Blessed Sacrament.I have Mass on Sunday, August 9 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailJesus places the bread into the hands of the disciples, the very ones who moments before wanted to send the crowds away. In doing so, he reshapes their imagination. They no longer see themselves as managers of scarcity but as participants in God’s abundance.I am away this [email protected]

Send us Fan MailThe second image is not about the pearl of great price; It’s about the merchant.“The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant.” (MT 13:45)I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, July 26 @ 7:30/9:30 am. We are celebrating the local feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim. St. Anne is the Patroness of the Archdiocese of Detroit. This homily is for those who are following the lectionary in Ordinary [email protected]

Send us Fan MailSt Anne is the Patroness of the Archdiocese of Detroit. We are celebrating the memorial of Sts Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. Ben Sirach recalls those countless good people who have lived down through the ages but of whom nothing is known and everything forgotten. Generation after generation, they brought children into the world and handed on their traditions and will continue to do so.I have Mass on Sunday, July 26 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed: https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailIn the old Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible translation, the landowner says to them, “Suffer the weeds to grow with the wheat.” Let them grow together. The root word in the Greek that Jesus uses is the word for forgiveness. I have Mass on Sunday, July 19at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amat St. Andrew @ 5:00 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailThere is a wonderful line in Paul’s letter to the Romans, 8:28. “We know that all things work together for good for those who love God." All things, not just good things.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, July 12 @ 7:30/9:30 amthe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailPaul Simon’s, “American Tune,” is a lament for all whose dreams have been shattered, for all who have lost their way.  I have Mass on Sunday, July 5th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30/11:30 amthe 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/[email protected]            Here is my latest substack post

Send us Fan Mail“Brothers and sisters: Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” (Romans 6:3)I have Mass on Sunday, June 28th at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected] latest substack post

Send us Fan Mail"So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." (Matthew 10:32)I have Mass on Sunday, June 21 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am (7:30 am live stream here)[email protected] latest substack

Send us Fan MailFrancis Thompson calls God, "The Hound of Heaven." It's a hunting metaphor, that God comes hounding after you before the thought ever dawns. God seeks after lost sheep, lost coins, lost sons. It begins with God, always the pursuer. I have Mass on Sunday, June 14th at St. Isidore @ 7:30 am. The Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/[email protected] is my latest post on substack. 

Send us Fan MailToday, June 11, as part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Bishops will consecrate the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. [email protected] version

Send us Fan Mail“Your life is so much stronger than ours that it dominates us, absorbs us, and assimilates us to itself…. Although I might have imagined that it was I who held the consecrated Bread and gave myself its nourishment, I now see with blinding clarity that it is the Bread that takes hold of me and draws me to itself. (Tielhard de Chardin, "The Priest, Writings in Time of War.")I have Mass on Sunday, June 7th, at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am; The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailHomily for June 5, 2026 at Holy Name, Birmingham.https://youtu.be/q4BGKuoPT2c?si=Xj5u_6zgLfW_AVWt

Send us Fan MailI had morning Mass at Holy Name in Birmingham https://youtu.be/HqEirLN3DDI?si=0msAyBfaCbjUBhOQ"I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God." Reflection on 2 Timothy 1:6, Wednesday June 3, [email protected]

Send us Fan MailMoses implores God: “Although this is a stiff-necked people if now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go with us.” “Let the Lord go with us.” We discover God along the way. We never see God coming, but afterward, in reflecting on our common experience, we recognize the hand of God that was guiding us all along.

Send us Fan MailThe Spirit is given for this benefit: whenever you or I forgive a brother or sister from the heart, we are participating in Christ’s ministry of forgiveness, exercising the priestly ministry of every baptized Christian.I have Mass on Sunday, May 24th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailThe Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, captures this beautifully in these words from his poem, “As Kingfishers catch fire.”“Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces.”I have Mass on Sunday, May 17th at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailInstead of talking about Jesus from the outside, in what we have heard and seen, Jesus is inviting us to meet him in a new way. What Jesus was and said is not past, but present, and everything speaks to us from deep within. Jesus is talking about love taking shape within our lives.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, May 10th at 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailRemember the painting that Francis introduced to the church, Our Lady, Untier of Knots? She is not resolving the problem; the way you untie knots is to loosen them. And that’s what Pope Francis was doing. He was untying knots. He was dispelling the fears that we have, especially of people who are different than us.I have Mass on Sunday, May 3rd at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amat St. Andrew @ 5:00 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailTaking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed. But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb. (MT 27:59-61)I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Passion of St. Matthew at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan MailThen the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole cohort around him. (MT 27:27)  "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUSI have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Passion of St. Matthew at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan MailWhen Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.  He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”  (MT 27:3)  "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUSI have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of at the live Passion of St. Matthew  at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan MailBut Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and going inside, he sat with the guards in order to see how this would end. (MT 26:57-58)  "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUSI have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of th live Passion of St. Matthew at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan MailOne of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you? (MT 26:14)  "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUSI have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Passion of St. Matthew  at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am Masses.The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan Mail(The Homily begins at the 6:00 minute mark) Where we see sin, Jesus sees something else: Creation is not finished. Reaching down into the dust of the earth from which Adam was created, Jesus continues the Father’s work.I have Mass on Sunday, March 15 at St. Andrew in Rochester @ 5:00 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailLuke tells a familiar story in chapter 19 about a wealthy tax collector who kept his distance. “Zacchaeus kept trying to see who Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd; so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus who was to pass that way.”I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, October 26 @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailThe steward realizes that generosity is the best investment. He gets himself out of a hole by building social capital. It is irrelevant, apparently, that he gives away what does not belong to him.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, September 21 @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailA few years later I visited the St. Egidio community in Rome. On Christmas morning, after the last mass, all the chairs in the church are rearranged, tables are set up, and a banquet is served to the poor in the neighborhood.I have Mass on Sunday, August 31 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailAt the opportune time, the caterpillar spins itself inside the narrow space of the chrysalis, to emerge, transformed, into a butterfly. I have Mass on Sunday, August 24 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailShifting from a scarcity outlook to one of abundance takes time. We’ve believed the lie of scarcity for so long that we may find it hard to believe it’s not true. I have Mass on Sunday, August 10 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailHow appropriate that we welcome a new shepherd as the Bishop of Rome on this 4th Sunday of Easter, that we call Good Shepherd Sunday. The whole world was stunned Thursday afternoon to hear the name of the American Cardinal, Robert Francis Prevost, chosen to be our new pope. He has taken the name Leo XIV. I have Mass on Sunday, May 11 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amat St. John Fisher @ 6:00 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailIt’s the beam in our own eye that makes the world look splintered. You know how it is with pointing fingers, one is pointed, but three are pointing back at you.I have Mass on Sunday, March 2nd at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailThe Fourth gospel reveals Jesus’ glory through a series of seven signs. It stands to reason that Jesus’s first public “sign” takes place at a wedding feast, for Jesus himself is the marriage of divinity and humanity. (Icon by Greta Leśko)I have Mass on Sunday, January 19at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amat St. Andrew @ 5:00 pmSt. Isidore 7:30 am will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailWhat had seemed like the end is a discovery of something we didn’t know before. “But the wise shall shine brightly like the splendor of the firmament, and those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever." (Daniel 12:3)I do not have Mass this [email protected]

Send us Fan MailThe blind man knows it is "Messiah time," the time when the blind see and the poor have their debts canceled and beggars become citizens again.I have Mass on Sunday, October 27 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amI have Mass on Friday, November 1, All Saints Day, at St. Kieran @ 7:00 pmI will post that homily later this [email protected]

Send us Fan MailThis past Tuesday, October 15, was the feast of the Spanish Mystic, Teresa of Avila. I read this wonderful quote this week from Teresa, “It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”I have Mass on Sunday, October 20 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amat St. Andrew @ 5:00 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailLuke paints the picture most vividly. “At that moment, the cock crowed; the Lord turned around and looked straight at Peter.” It’s the same verse we read today in Mark’s Gospel, "Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples."I have Mass on Sunday, October 13 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amthe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan Mail“All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine. (Pope Francis to young people in Singapore)I have Mass on Sunday, September 29at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amat St. Andrew @ 5:00 pmthe 7;30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailGod does something beyond anything we could ever have imagined. God takes the place of the one who is cast out.I have Mass on Sunday, September 22 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected]

Send us Fan MailRather than giving us a geography of the Holy Land, Mark is giving us a geography of the Gospel: Jesus is willing to go everywhere, – Even crossing boundaries into Gentile territory – to find people in need of healing and bring them home.I am off this [email protected]

Send us Fan MailIn September, 2019, The Vatican hosted an inter-religious forum to reappraise the role of Jesus and the Pharisees.I have Mass on Sunday, September 1st at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailAfter the Children of Israel are liberated from slavery in Egypt, the remainder of the Torah – almost four of the five books of Moses –takes place in the wilderness. I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, August 4 @ 7:30/9:30 am.The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan MailOnly John tells us that it was a young boy who offered his meager lunch. The Israelites wandered 40 years in the wilderness; the actual trip might have taken 11 days. But it took two generations for the children of Israel to get the taste of Pharaoh’s bread out of their mouths.When they ate Pharaoh’s bread, all they could taste was scarcity. The boy is the next generation. He sees with new eyes, a world filled with the abundance of God’s creation.I have Mass on Sunday, July 28 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected] of potato picking

Send us Fan MailThe one who is the true Joshua/Yeshua, the one whose name means “Yahweh saves,” has come amongst his sheep. In today's Gospel, Jesus is enacting the fulfillment of Moses' prayer. (Numbers 27) It is the Lord himself who comes as shepherd.I have Mass on Sunday, July 21 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am.The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/[email protected]

Send us Fan Mail“Is this not the brother of James and Joses?” In Hebrew, Jacob and Joseph. Jacob of course was the father of twelve sons, Joseph being the youngest, and favored son. And Judah and Simeon, the two brothers who very nearly had Joseph killed.I have Mass on Sunday, July 7 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 [email protected] and his brothers, Painting by AVI EZRA, Israel.

Send us Fan MailIn the night, the disciples seem to have forgotten that Jesus is the one who called them to cross to the other side. The whole time they are beset by wind and waves, Jesus is with them in the boat; they cry out, as if Jesus has abandoned them.I am away for the next two Sundays. I am back at St. Isidore on July [email protected]