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The Homilies of Father Merkley — 156 episodes
Ordinary Life vs Mountaintop Experiences (2nd Sunday of Lent, Year A)
The Origin of Sin (1st Sunday of Lent, Year A)
Ash Wednesday (2026)
God's Commandments are the Best (6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A)
Salt, Light, Incense, and Singing (5th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A)
The Sunday of the Word of God - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
The Logic of Ordinary Time (2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A)
The Baptism of the Lord - and Our Baptism (Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, 2026)
Feast of the Epiphany (2026)
A New Year with Mary (Solemnity of Mary Mother of God, 2026)
Loving like the Holy Family (Feast of the Holy Family 2025)
Christ is Close at Christmas (Christmas, 2025)
Jesus' Healing Unconditional Love (4th Sunday of Advent, Year A)
Reasons to Rejoice this Advent (3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A)
Preparing for Christ's Peace (2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A)
Orientation to Advent (1st Sunday of Advent, Year A)
All Soul' Day, All Saints' Day, a New Bishop, and Retreats! (All Souls Day, 2025)
Signs of Humility - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
What is Prayer? How can I pray? (29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C)
An Attitude of Gratitude - Thanksgiving Weekend (28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C)
Sharing in the Victory of the Cross - Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross
Jesus' Top Tips for Discipleship - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
How Can I Have Humility? - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
Will You Make it To Heaven? 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Why is it Difficult to Evangelize? - 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Being Ready for Christ to Return - 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
What is the Purpose to Life? - 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
The Importance of Prayer - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
Doing the One Thing Necessary - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
God's Got Your Back (Thursday of 15th Week of Ordinary Time)
Who is Really My Neighbour? - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Developing your Personal Relationship with God - 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (2025)
12 Promises of the Sacred Heart (Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, 2025)
Corpus Christi 2025 - How Should we Treat the Eucharist?
Breakfast with the Risen Jesus- 3rd Sunday of Easter (Year C)
How is Lent a Chance to Respond to God's Love? (1st Sunday of Lent, Year C)
What do the Ashes Mean? (Ash Wednesday 2025)
What Fruit will you Grow, Especially during Lent? (8th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C)
Can I Forgive My Enemies? (7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C)
You Are Worthy, So Answer God's Call (5th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C)
Shining a Light - Feast of the Presentation (2025)
How do you Read the Bible? - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Finding Holiness in the Ordinary - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
What is Baptism? Why is it Important? (Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, 2025)
"I had an Epiphany" - How God Reveals Himself to You (Epiphany, 2025)
What's so Special about Mary? (Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, 2025)
How Do I Make My Family Holy? (Feast of the Holy Family, 2024)
How We Feel about Christmas (Christmas 2024)
O Antiphons and Longing for God (4th Sunday of Advent, 2024)
Rejoicing - Jubilee Year of Hope (3rd Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2025)
How Do I Live Out the Two Greatest Commandments? (31st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
What is Purgatory, and Why do We Pray for the Dead? (Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed - All Soul's Day, 2024)
Can We All Be Saints? (All Saint's Day, 2024)
How can I See through God's Eyes? (30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
Halloween, Humility, and Hearing your Vocation (29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
What is God's Plan for my Wisdom, Love, and Happiness? Be Open! (28th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B - Thanksgiving)
The Church’s Teachings on Divorce, Remarriage, and Annulments (27th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
God's Radical Inclusion - Why isn't Everyone Saved? (26th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
Am I Patient - Do I Humbly Serve? (25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
Who do You Say that Jesus is? Fr. Greg's Conversion (24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
We Must Listen to God and each Other (23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
How and Why God's Commandments are Good for Us (22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
Running through the Communion Rite (21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
What happens during the Liturgy of the Eucharist? (20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
The Eucharist - Food for the Soul (19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
What is Happening at the Mass during the Liturgy of the Word? (18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
Lazarus, Linen Loincloths, and God's Love for Being with You (Memorial of Sts. Martha, Mary and Lazarus)
Thinking of Boredom at Mass, the Bread of Life Discourse, and Sharing your Gifts (17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
3 Lessons from St. James of the Sons of Thunder (Father Greg's Baptism Anniversary)
St. Mary Magdalene and the Thirst for God (2024)
The Good Shepherd Loves You - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)
The Principle of Charitable Interpretation, and Why God Allows Us to Suffer (12th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
Standing Before the Judgement Seat of Christ - 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
Mary has You in Her Immaculate Heart (Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Solemnity, 2024)
Corpus Christi 2024 - Jesus is in the Eucharist
Called to Level Up our Love our Mothers and Others (Ascension 2024)
Best Friends with Christ and Others (6th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B)
How to Bear Much Fruit (5th Sunday of Easter, Year B)
Being a Good Shepherd - Good Shepherd Sunday (4th Sunday of Easter, Year B)
Your Friend Jesus wants to Drive (3rd Sunday of Easter, Year B)
What is Divine Mercy Sunday? (2nd Sunday of Easter, Year B)
What is the Meaning of Easter? (Easter Sunday, Year B)
The Sacrament of Reconciliation - Fr. Gary Schlack (Lenten Mission Homily 3 - Solemnity of St. Joseph)
The Eucharist and the Holy Mass - Fr. Gary Schlack (Lenten Mission Homily 2 - Monday in the 5th Week of Lent)
The Shroud of Turin - Fr. Gary Schlack (Lenten Mission Homily 1 - 5th Sunday of Lent)
God Wants you to be Happy - How? (4th Sunday of Lent - Laetare Sunday - Year A readings)
What are the Church's "Scrutinies"? Scrutinizing our Hearts - 3rd Sunday of Lent (Scrutiny Readings from Year A)
How You Can Never Be the Same Again - 2nd Sunday of Lent (Year B)
Live Lent to the Full - 1st Sunday of Lent (Year B)
Lent Can Make Us Happy (Preparing for Lent) - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)
God Desires to Heal You - 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)
Jesus' Authority and Your Participation in the Mass - 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)
You and the Bible - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)
What Exactly is "Ordinary" Time? - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)
Stars - Epiphany (2024)
Christmas Homily (2023)
Sock Monkeys and Spiritual Joys - 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year B (Gospel and Homily)
The Priests People Want, Advent Wisdom from Monsignor Earl Talbot - 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B
Three Comings of Christ & Being Spiritually Awake (Homily) - 1st Sunday of Advent Year B
True Humility (Gospel and Homily) - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
What's it Like for the Priest to Hear Confessions? (2nd Sunday of Lent, Year C)
What's Love (and Marriage) Got to Do With It? - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
St. Cecilia and the Beauty of Virginity
Does Jesus Christ the King Have Your Car Keys? - Last Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B (Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe)
Standing Up Against Evil and Remaining Faithful
The Radical Christianity to Which You Are Called
The Examples of Eleazar and Zacchaeus
Living in the Present Moment - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
St. Josephat, True Ecumenism
St. Martin of Tours and Remembrance Day
The Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran
God's Cheque and Your Cheque - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Being More Shrewd than the Worldly, for More Noble Ends
The Lost Cat Story - God's Crazy Love
How and Why to Become a Saint (All Saints Day)
The Lord's 'Tools' for Helping Us Love - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
When the Holy Spirit Touches You - Sts Simon and Jude
What's the Greatest Fight You've Ever Been In?
The Spiritual Lessons of Sunglasses - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
Why Would Jesus, the Prince of Peace, say He Came to "Bring Division"?
Being 'Ready' for Christ through Meditating on Christ's Passion
A Kerygmatic Prop - 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Justification by Grace - Participating in the Divine Nature
Why and How Brokenness is Now Part of Humanity
Thanksgiving Day - Use Your Blessings the Way God Wants You To
Thanksgiving Through the Christian Lens - 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
The Rosary, the Great Gift
Looking at the Quantity and Quality of our Prayer
God's Beautiful and Incredible Gift of Marriage - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
St. Jerome - The Importance of Reading Scripture
Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael - Who are these Archangels?
God Really Is With You
What is Authentic Christian Inclusivity? - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
God Delights in You
You Live In Exile, Just So You Know
I Desire Mercy, Not Sacrifice - Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Shining - In the Light of Our Judgement
The Importance of a Servant's Heart - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
More Mercy, More Love
What "Our Lady of Sorrows" Can Teach Us
Why Does the Cross Exist?
The Importance of Really Listening to God and Others - 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
Don't Be a Hypocrite
Happy Birthday, Blessed Mother
Labor Day - All About W.O.R.K.
Being Open to the Lord - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
Life Lessons From the Boat of St. Peter
Jesus Has Authority - and That's a Good Thing
Are You a Faithful Christian? Having a "Clean Hands" and a "Pure Heart" - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
Are you Awake and Ready for the Lord's Coming?
God knows us and loves us unconditionally. How are we loving Him back?
Does Jesus Want to Give Some People "Tough Love"?
Trusting in the Lord When I Don't Understand) - 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
How to Really, Really Give God our Best
What Can We "Assume" About Mary and Her "Assumption"? - 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B