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St Francis Catholic
by Fr. Mike Casey
Father Casey is the pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish and chaplain for Central Connecticut State University.
Episodes
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10/11/26: God’s Terms
Matthew 22:1-14. Homily from the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The parable of the wedding feast helps us ask: do I take my faith lightly or respond with hostility? Or do I accept God’s invitation to come to Him but only if I can do so on my own terms? To learn more, visit...
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10/4/26: Rich in Faith
Matthew 11:25-30. Homily from the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. It’s easy to think that the only people who can make a difference in the Church are the ones who make decisions that directly impact the Church worldwide. But the best thing we can do is live holiness right where we are, serving…
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9/25/26: Obedience is Greater than Piety
Matthew 21:28-32. Homily from the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What do you do when you’re called to obey and think it’s more pious not to? To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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9/13/26: The Ten-Billion Dollar Debt
Matthew 18:21-35. Homily from the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. If someone forgave you a ten-billion dollar debt, would you turn around and demand that someone else pay up the $15,000 they owed you? Have you ever gone to confession and then refused to forgive a family member? And what’s...
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9/6/26: Who’s in Charge?
Matthew 18:15-20. Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Do we trust the Church to guide us morally and doctrinally? To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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8/30/26: Committed
Matthew 16:21-27. Homily from the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Are we committed to following Jesus, or just interested? Are we doing the bare minimum of what we think is required, or are we actually willing to take up our cross daily to follow Him? To learn more, visit...
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8/23/26: When the King is Absent
Matthew 16:13-20. Homily from the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time. Who did Saint Peter say Jesus was? Who do we say that He is? And if we believe He is God, how should we view the steward He has left in charge of us on Earth? To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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8/16/26: Sophomore Catholics
Matthew 15:21-28. Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. When we complain about the liturgy, we’re like children complaining about the food our parents give us, and God might give that food to others. To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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8/15/26: Benevolent Love
Luke 1:39-56. Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. God didn’t have to Assume Our Lady into heaven, body and soul. He did it because His love is not confined by what He “has” to do. It is abundant and overflowing. To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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8/9/26: It’s me, Jesus
Matthew 14:22-33. Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. When the disciples were caught in a storm at sea and afraid for their lives, Jesus revealed Himself to them as both God and their friend. He comes to us the same way when we receive Holy Communion. To learn more, visit...
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8/2/26: Give it to Jesus
Matthew 14:13-21. Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It can be overwhelming to see how much needs to get done— how many material and spiritual needs the people around us have. But when we think we don’t have enough to meet those needs, Jesus calls us to give Him what we do have,...
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7/26/26: Worth Everything
Matthew 13:44-52. Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every sacrament of the Church is a pearl of great price. Each is so beautiful and profound that we should be willing to joyfully give all that we have in exchange for it. We receive them free of charge, but they’re worth...
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7/19/26: Poisonous Weeds
Matthew 13:24-30. Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. When we let down our guard, Satan plants poisonous weeds in us that try to distract us from goodness and prayer. Instead of trying to uproot them, we need to go to confession, then turn our focus away from them and move on. To...
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7/12/26: A Good and Generous Heart
Matthew 13:1-23. Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God’s word is always capable of producing fruit. However, our own hearts can be too hard or distracted for that fruit to grow. We need to receive our Lord with a good and generous heart. To learn more, visit...
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7/5/26: Lasting Peace
Matthew 11:25-30. Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. When Jesus says “Come to me,” He means it. He wants us to come to Him with all of our needs, joys, and worries. Only by uniting ourselves to Jesus, and enduring all difficulties patiently out of love for Him, will we find…
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6/21/2026: Whispers in the Dark
Matthew 10:26-33. Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Evangelization doesn’t mean forcing someone to listen to you read the Gospel according to St. Mark. It means hearing Jesus in prayer, internalizing the gospel, and expressing to others what you’ve heard. We shouldn’t be afraid of...
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6/14/26: Labor for Christ
Matt. 9:36-10:8. Homily from the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Christ takes pity on us in our weaknesses. Father Casey explores how this should shape the way we treat others in theirs. To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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6/7/26: It’s Not Bread
John 6:51-58. Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). Father Casey explains what Catholics believe about the Eucharist, and how that belief should shape how we behave in church. To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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5/31/26: The Mystery of the Trinity
John 3:16-18. Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Father Casey explains what we mean, don’t mean, and simply can’t understand when we talk about the Holy Trinity. To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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5/24/26: Fire and Breath
Acts 2:1-22; John 20:19-23. Homily from Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost comes 50 days after Easter just as the law was given to Moses 50 days after the Exodus. Father Casey explains why this parallel is important and what the gifts of the Spirit and tongues means for Christians today. To learn more,...
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5/10/26: Ready?
1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21. Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Saint Peter tells us to always be ready to give an explanation for the hope that is within us. But are we living our lives in a way that invites people to ask why we’re so hopeful? Or are they more likely to ask why we’re so...
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5/3/26: Not How, But Why
John 14:1-12. Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. The question for Christians is less how we live, but why we live that way. Do we behave any differently because Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, than we would if we didn’t believe in Him? To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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4/26/26: The Shepherd
John 10:1-10. Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Jesus is our good shepherd. Because of this, the most important thing we should look for in our pastors— priests, bishops, and the pope— is that they bring Christ to us. To learn more, visit www.stfranciscatholic.org/
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4/19/26: Walk With Them
Luke 24:13-35. Third Sunday of Easter. On the day of His resurrection, Jesus walked for miles with two people who were walking away from Jerusalem and away from the Church. He asked them questions and listened to their worries. Then He showed them Himself in scripture and revealed Himself in the...
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4/12/26: Devoted
John 20:19-31; Acts 2:42-47. Second Sunday of Easter. The first Christians devoted themselves to four things: the teachings of the apostles, the communal life, the mass, and prayer. We should model our lives after them in this way, not simply dabbling in these things but devoting ourselves to…
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4/4/26: Jesus is Alive
Genesis 1:1-2:2; Gen. 22:1-18; Exodus 14:15-15:1; Isaiah 54:5-14; Isaiah 55:1-11; Baruch 3:9-15, 32-3:4; Ezekiel 36:16-17a, 18-28; Romans 6:3-11; Matthew 28:1-10. Homily from Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter. Jesus is alive! All Christians share in His resurrection...
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3/29/26: The Price of Peace
Matthew 26:14-27:66. Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. Because of the fall, there is no peace. We have no peace with God, with one another, or with ourselves. But through His passion, death, and resurrection, Jesus Christ bought us peace with God, which we celebrate at every Mass.…
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3/22/26: Unbind Him
John 11:1-45. Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. The story of Jesus’s raising of Lazarus shows His genuine love for His friends. It also parallels the sacrament of confession. Lazarus was dead, but made alive again, and when we invite Jesus to see the spiritual death in us in confession, He...
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3/18/26: Son of the Father
John 5: 17-30. Homily from Sacred Heart Parish Retreat Day 3. Jesus is, was, and has always been the Son of the Father. When we are united to Him in baptism, we partake in that divinity and become children of God as well. How do we allow this knowledge to shape our relationship with God and our...
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3/17/26: Do You Want to be Well?
John 5:1-16. Homily from Sacred Heart Parish Retreat Day 2. When Jesus saw the crippled man at the pool in Bethesda, He truly saw him and truly knew him. It is the same with all of us; and as with the crippled man, Jesus asks us all: Do you want to be well? Do we really want to be well? Do we…
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3/16/26: The Man Believed
John 4:43-54. Homily from Sacred Heart Parish Retreat Day 1. Saint John wrote his gospel account to show us how to be friends with Jesus. In today’s gospel, we see someone show tremendous faith in the words of Jesus, and then come to believe in Jesus Himself. Father Michael Casey offers ways we…
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3/15/26: Through the Struggle
John 9:1-41. Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. When Jesus heals a man born blind, the man’s own parents and religious community turn on him. In the midst of his struggle to convince them all that he was healed by Jesus, the man comes to know Jesus in a far deeper way, going from calling him...
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3/8/26: Not Surface Level
John 4:5-42. Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent. Jesus goes to Samaria out of love for the woman at the well and for the Samaritan people as a whole, who she represents. The way He talks to her can help us learn how Jesus approaches all of us and how we can talk to Him in prayer. To learn more,...
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3/1/26: He Really Is God
Matthew 17:1-9. Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. Jesus’s call to take up our cross daily and follow Him can be difficult. As a way to encourage His disciples, He showed them Himself in glory in the transfiguration. This is still an encouragement today as we try to live lives of radical...
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2/22/26: On the Offensive
Genesis 2:7-9, 3:1-7; Matthew 4:1-11. Homily from the First Sunday of Lent. Sin is a disease that entered the world when Adam and Eve succumbed to the devil’s temptation. It has spread ever since. In His earthly ministry, Jesus went to the desert, the devil’s home turf, to battle Satan and sin…
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2/18/26: Come Back
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18. Homily from Ash Wednesday. Lent is a time for returning to God through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Father Michael Casey discusses each of these practices, giving both the reasons for doing them and practical advice for doing them well. To learn more, visit...
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2/8/26: Be Salt and Light
Matthew 5:13-16. Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus calls all christians to be salt and light in the world. We need to bring flavor, keep corruption at bay, and bring up the temperature of holiness, like salt; and we need to give those around us the feeling of safety and truth,...
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2/1/26: The Markers of a Christian
Matthew 5:1-12a. Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus begins His most famous sermon with a list of eight qualities that should characterize His followers. Father Michael Casey discuses each one, explaining what they mean and showing how they are applicable to us in our present...
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1/25/26: Be Fishers of Men
Matthew 4:12-23. Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus called the first disciples to leave their fishing nets and become fishers of men. This is an apostolic mission for every Christian. Father Michael Casey draws out the analogy of fishing in the context of evangelism, showing how...
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1/18/26: A Time to Grow
John 1:29-34. Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. When we see green vestments at church, we should think about how we’re growing as Christians in the two main areas of holiness and apostolate. Holiness is the primary vocation of every Christian, and we’re all called to share the good...
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1/11/26: He Makes the Water Holy
Matthew 3:13-17. Homily from the Baptism of the Lord. The rest of us need to be baptized in order to be made holy. But when Jesus was baptized, He made baptism holy. Because of this, baptism, like all the sacraments, isn’t just a sign or symbol. It causes a new reality: we are washed of our sins,...
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12/28/25: Holiness in Family Life
Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23. Homily from the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Jesus sanctified everything He touched, and because He was born into a family, He sanctified family life. For people who live in families, family life is the path to holiness. Loving your family, being...
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12/25/25: Because He Loves Us
Matthew 1:18-25. Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Vigil). God doesn’t want us to be afraid to be in relationship with Him, so He made Himself as small as He could, coming to us as a baby. He came to us out of love for us. In return, we should love Him and re-order our lives the way...
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12/21/25: The Annunciation to St. Joseph
Matthew 1:18-21. Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. There are three possible reasons why Joseph initially chose to divorce Mary when he learned she was pregnant. Whatever the reason, when God told Joseph in a dream to take Mary as his wife, he immediately followed God’s will. Are we willing...
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12/14/25: Abiding Joy
Matthew 11:2-11. Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. Where can we find true and lasting joy and peace? Only in relationship with Jesus Christ, who is the answer to all of our questions, needs, and desires. The joy that Christ gives is not a good mood that sways like a reed in the winds of…
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12/8/25: Full of Grace
Luke 1:26-38. Homily from the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fr. Michael Casey discusses what it means that Our Lady is “full of grace,” explaining the nuances of the term from the original Greek. In view of the merits of her Son, God preserved Mary from…
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12/7/25: Turn Around
Matthew 3:1-12. Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. Repentance isn’t about hating ourselves for our sin. It’s about turning around. If we’re on the wrong path, the best thing to do is simply turn around. This advent, Fr. Michael Casey encourages us to prayerfully consider where in our lives...
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11/30/25: Are You Ready?
Matthew 24:37-44. Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. There was no room for Christ at the inn— is there room for Him in our hearts? During advent, we need to make sure we’re prepared for the coming of Christ, both at the eschaton, and at every Mass, when He comes to us in word and sacrament.…
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11/23/25: The Voice of Christ’s Shepherds
Luke 23:35-43. Homily from The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Jesus is king. This means we should allow Him to shape our views on moral issues. We don’t live in a theocracy, but because Jesus is king of the universe, His shepherds have the responsibility to speak up on...
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11/16/25: Am I Willing to Die?
Luke 21:5-19. Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. What are we willing to sacrifice for our faith? Sports on Sunday mornings? Our job? Our reputation? Fr. Michael Casey invites us to consider Jesus’s call on us to be willing to die rather than give up our Catholic faith. To learn...
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Father Casey is the pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish and chaplain for Central Connecticut State University.
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