Fr. Edward Looney, a priest of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin. In his weekly homilies, he often shares his own brokenness, weaknesses, and spirituality, as a way to relate the gospel to ordinary life. He is a dynamic and charismatic preacher who will help you reflect on the Word of God.
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney preaches about our five senses and how the scriptures engage them and how God breaks into our lives through them.By Fr. Edward Looney
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9/1/24-Observe the Commandments Carefully, Especially the Second
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9/1/24-Observe the Commandments Carefully, Especially the Second by Fr. Edward LooneyBy Fr. Edward Looney
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8/25/2024-Don't Let a Scripture Passage Become Too Familiar
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney helps us understand that we should familiarize ourselves with scripture, but not to let it become too familiar so that we become numb to the passage. Return often to the passage and reflect on it is his recommendation.By Fr. Edward Looney
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8/18/24-Let St. Paul Inspire You To Do These Three Things
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, and hones in on three things that he encourages his readers and hearers to do. Will you try to do these things this week?By Fr. Edward Looney
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8/15/2024-What Did Mary Say When She Entered Heaven?
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects about the life of Mary, takes a point from Anne Catherine Emmerich's biography of Jesus and Mary, and applies it to the end of her life and entry into Heaven.By Fr. Edward Looney
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8/11/24-Inspired by Our Ancestors in the Faith
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney unpacks one of the treasures of our Catholic faith- those who have preceded us who give witness and inspire our practice of the faith today.By Fr. Edward Looney
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8/4/24-Sunday Is Not Enough to Satisfy Spiritual Hunger
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney shares a story about a hotel worker and what she taught him about spiritual hunger and then translates that story into a lesson about our daily need for God through prayer, bible reading, and reflection.By Fr. Edward Looney
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7/21/2024-Thankful for the Shepherds Christ Has Appointed For Us
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on the priests who have influenced our lives and that we should give thanks to God for them. He also acknowledges the need for healing and forgiveness and encourages prayers for priestly vocations.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney talks about the call, specially the call to follow Jesus, but also more broadly of the daily calls God places on our hearts.By Fr. Edward Looney
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7/7/2024-We Plead and We Beg for Grace and Mercy
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In this homily, Fr. Looney reflects about our identity and role as pleaders and beggars before the Lord.By Fr. Edward Looney
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6/30/2024-I Wrote Two Gospel Reflections, 9 Months Apart on Mk 5:21-43-Similarities and Differences
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6/30/2024-I Wrote Two Gospel Reflections, 9 Months Apart on Mk 5:21-43-Similarities and Differences by Fr. Edward LooneyBy Fr. Edward Looney
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In his Sunday homily, Fr. Edward Looney preaches about the boat being an image for the Church and the exchange between Jesus and the Apostles as being mirrored in our life.By Fr. Edward Looney
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6/16/24-Lord, It Is Good to Give Thanks To You
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on how it is good to give thanks to the Lord and gives a review of the week to demonstrate prayers of thanksgiving for the Eucharistic Revival, Adele Brice's canonization process, Father's Day, and God's providential care.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney preaches about Adam and Eve encountering God in the Garden after hiding. He translates the passage into our own experience of sin and concludes with how the incarnation tells us we no longer need to hide.By Fr. Edward Looney
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6/2/2024-Deepening Our Eucharistic Devotion
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In this homily for Corpus Christi, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on the Catholic Church's devotion to the Eucharist and how a person can deepen their devotion for our Eucharistic Lord.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this homily Fr. Edward Looney poses the questions: Why do you go to Sunday Mass and Do you believe all the things that we profess? Listen to this homily and move from doubt to faith when you worship the Triune God.By Fr. Edward Looney
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5/19/2024-To Think More Deeply About the Holy Spirit
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5/19/2024-To Think More Deeply About the Holy Spirit by Fr. Edward LooneyBy Fr. Edward Looney
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5/12/2024-Was Mary Joyful on Ascension Day?
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on whether or not Mary could be joyful on a day when her son leaves this earth and ascends into Heaven.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney encourages people not to raise an eyebrow and be skeptical or dismissive of a person's conversion. He also points out how God calls us to conversion every time we receive the Holy Communion.By Fr. Edward Looney
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4/21/2024-See What Love the Father Has Shown Us Through the Gift of the Priesthood
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on God's love shown through the sacraments administered by the priest. Through the priesthood, the Father has shown us his love.By Fr. Edward Looney
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4/14/2024-We Are Called to Lifelong Learning as Catholics
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In this homily Fr. Edward Looney encourages life long learning and study of the faith.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this homily for Divine Mercy Sunday, Fr. Looney reflects on how St. Thomas suffered from FOMO and how Jesus wants to replace the motivating factor of fear with a disposition of love.By Fr. Edward Looney
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3/31/2024-An Easter Motif: Seeking and Sharing
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What words come to mind to describe or summarize the story of Easter. For me, this year, it is seeking and sharing. It’s in the Bible, experienced by others, and by us this Easter Day.By Fr. Edward Looney
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3/29/2024-The Grace of the Stations of the Cross
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on the beauty of St. Alphonsus Ligouri’s Stations of the Cross.By Fr. Edward Looney
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3/28/2024-Receiving and Remaining with the Lord
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Holy Thursday is different than every other night. It is a night for us to receive and remain with the Lord.By Fr. Edward Looney
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Each year, what do you notice for the first time or anew in the passion. For me, this year it was the three Simons.By Fr. Edward Looney
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St. Patrick knew who His God was and how to pray. As people celebrate him throughout the world, today we can pray like Patrick.By Fr. Edward Looney
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3/10/2024-The Right Person, At the Right Time, With the Right Message
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney preaches on how God sends us the right person, at the right time, with the right message. It's something he has done since the time of the Bible and still does even today!By Fr. Edward Looney
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In today's gospel, Jesus cleanses the temple of money changers and sellers. If he entered our homes today, what would we he cleanse. Let that be a question you with sit with in prayer today.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this weekend’s homily, Fr. Edward explains prayer as a conversation with God using the example of the Transfiguration and the requested sacrifice of Isaac.By Fr. Edward Looney
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2/18/2023-Learn to Recognize Satan's Voice When Tempted
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Fr. Edward Looney explains the voice of Satan and how he tempts us to sin. Learn to recognize his voice, so you can reject and instead follow the voice of the Good Shepherd.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney shares how he is using this Lent to return to some of the basics of the spiritual life in his prayer and devotion.By Fr. Edward Looney
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2/11/2024-The Mystery of God's Healing Grace
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes alongside the healing of the Leper and how it proposes a mystery in God's will regarding the grace of healings.By Fr. Edward Looney
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2/4/2024-The Mission of Jesus Continues In The Church Today
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In this reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on how Jesus’s mission of healing and preaching has continued through the Church. #SundayMass #homilyBy Fr. Edward Looney
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1/21/2024-What to make of the two different accounts (John and Mark) of Andrew and Simon’s calling
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In this homily, Fr. Edward Looney reflects on the two different accounts of the calling of Andrew and Simon that are found in the gospels of John and Mark. He then goes on to explain what the calling in Mark’s Gospel might mean for us today.By Fr. Edward Looney
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1/14/2024-The Questions of Jesus Asked Again Today
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In this homily, Fr. Looney focuses on the three movements of John 1:33-42:1. What are you looking for? 2. Come and see. 3. We have found the Messiah.By Fr. Edward Looney
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When have you felt wonder and awe like the magi? It could and should happen at every Mass.By Fr. Edward Looney
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Meditate on these aspects of Mary’s motherhood.By Fr. Edward Looney
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The transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge can be our story with Jesus this Christmas.By Fr. Edward Looney
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12/24/2023-To be a dwelling place of divinity
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Here the Word became flesh. Mary is a dwelling place of God’s divinity. Can we be too?By Fr. Edward Looney
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12/17/2023-The Holy Spirit’s Role During Advent
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In a season about the coming of Jesus, what about the Holy Spirit?By Fr. Edward Looney
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Fr. Edward reflects on the question of St Peter: What type of person am I supposed to be?By Fr. Edward Looney
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12/8/2023-Mary’s Immaculate Conception is About the Trinity
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Fr. Edward reflects on Mary as daughter, mother, and spouse.By Fr. Edward Looney
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What is the season Advent about and what should I do during these holy days? The prophet Isaiah has some ideas in our first reading this weekend.By Fr. Edward Looney
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11/23/3023-At First I Was Ungrateful, Now I Am Grateful
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Sometimes we might be like the nine lepers, ungrateful, but over time when we realize God at work, we become grateful.By Fr. Edward Looney
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The church celebrated a slew of women saints this past week. Thinking of Proverbs 31, I realized that both the married ones and those who were spouses of Jesus fit the bill of being a woman of great worth.By Fr. Edward Looney
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Fr. Edward reflects on the meaning of a cemetery grave.By Fr. Edward Looney
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Fr. Looney shares how in his vocational journey and spiritual life he has found peace in the Lord.By Fr. Edward Looney
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The Pharisees lived one way. Jesus another. We should follow the example of Jesus.By Fr. Edward Looney
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In this homily Fr. Looney focuses on our preparation for the wedding feast of the Lamb.By Fr. Edward Looney
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