Fr. Christopher Mahar offers Catholic homilies that focus on the Gospel, the teachings of Sacred Scripture and the Catholic Church. How do I grow in my Catholic faith? How do I learn more about Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God? the Bible and the Sacred Liturgy provide answers to our questions about God, faith, life, death, heaven and hell. Why do we suffer? Where is God in our lives? How do I grow in prayer? God has answers to the questions that matter most!
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Jesus, the Messiah, comes to restore and renew us in His divine love and grace.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The heart is the place of encounter between God and humanity. Christ calls us to purify our hearts and to always be ready for the encounter with God.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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"The flesh is the very condition on which our salvation hinges" (Tertullian).By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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"Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you."By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus gives us His own body and blood as food for the journey on our pilgrimage home to God.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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We are called to a dialogue with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and we should be ready to listen to what He has to say.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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In the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves, Jesus anticipates the future institution of the Eucharist, roots the Eucharist in the past and gives us grace in the present moment.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus, our true Shepherd, leads us through the dark valley to find new and eternal life in God.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus gives us the paradigm for a truly missionary Church this weekend: a Church called and sent, a Church dependent totally upon Him, and a Church that imitates His call to repentance and new life.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Each baptized Christian is called to share in the prophetic ministry of Jesus Christ. We do so with receptivity, knowledge that we may be rejected, and ultimately with a spirit of renewal.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The created world listens to the voice of its Creator. When we listen to the voice of God we find that peace we long for, even in the midst of the storms of life.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The parables of Jesus about the Kingdom of God require that we have humility and faith, and that we become men and women of prayer. Jesus wants us to enter fully into the Kingdom of God and to bear great fruit!By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to much more than return to Paradise. He calls us to share in His own Divine life and to share in the glory of the risen Christ. He heals us of the wound of original sin and calls us to build up those around us.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus fulfills the animal sacrifices of the Old Covenant by sharing in our life, offering His body and Blood on the cross, and giving us Himself as a meal in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God has revealed Himself as an eternal exchange of love, Father Son and holy Spirit, and has invited us to share in that exchange.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God wants to pour the Holy Spirit into our hearts like honey, His sweetness and gentle new life. Through prayer we expand our hearts and purify them to receive this great gift.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus teaches us that we do not belong to the world anymore than He does, but also that "God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." Christians are called to live differently than the world, but to also bring the message of the Gospel to the world that desperately needs to…
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God's love is unconditional, but to be friends with God necessitates that we love. By loving those around us enough to share Christ with them, we truly fulfill the commandment of love.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Creation and the redemption are the fruits of the communion of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus, in His image of the vine and the branches, invites us to likewise bear fruit in communion with Him. The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Jesus' body and blood that allows us to remain in Him, and He in us, and to bear great fruit.…
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Are you saved? In the Catholic vision of salvation, we are touched by Christ personally and socially, spiritually and physically, historically and in a transcendent way. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, comes to us to bring us this salvation.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The kerygma or core Gospel message has the power to change and transform the world. How are we receiving it and is it changing our lives in this Easter season?By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The Divine Mercy comes to us from the pierced side of Christ. Out of His side flows blood and water, washing away our sins in the waters of baptism and strengthening us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. Thus God provides for us all that we need to make a free and generous return to Him.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Easter is about rediscovering our story-our life in Christ-and announcing it to God in worship and the world in evangelization.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The Church is called, in Holy Week, to accompany Christ on the road to calvary and the Resurrection.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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St. Paul urges us to "put on the whole armor of God." When we do so we can win the battle for virtue, the battle for prayer and the battle against spiritual apathy.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Christ, in our Gospel this weekend, introduces us to the paradox of the cross. It is the seed that dies and is buried in the ground that bears much fruit. How are we called to unite ourselves more completely to His cross and so share in the fullness of His resurrection?By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to a covenant relationship in Christ, giving us His own body and blood in the Eucharist and offering Himself as the new and eternal covenant.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus Christ gives us Himself in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. As a meal and a sacrifice, the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian faith.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The Church celebrates the Paschal Mystery-the suffering and death and the resurrection of Christ-as a single and life-giving event. Wherever we are experiencing the cross in our lives at this time, God is drawing us ever more deeply into the glory of Easter.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us because He loves us, and by His grace He helps us to become holy.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God's answer to a broken world is . . . water! In the waters of Baptism we are regenerated and with Christ living in us we can change the world.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to an intimate, loving relationship with Him in Christ. We are invited into friendship with God. When we strain or even break that friendship, Jesus Christ can restore it and heal us by His mercy and grace. What a gift, to have friendship with God!By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God's response to human misery is to send Jesus Christ, His Son, as the remedy. Christ founds the Church to continue that healing mission.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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In the Gospel this weekend Jesus teaches with great authority and by His own power casts out the unclean spirit. Christ gives His authority to the Church to teach and drive away evil. How are we able to grow and thrive in our Christian life through and because of that authority?By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Christ is the perfect Messenger, who preaches the total and complete message of the Gospel and offers us the opportunity to encounter God and be transformed.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls all of us to seek Him, know Him and love Him with all of our strength and to be formed in the unity of the Church (CCC, #1), so that He can send us out to renew the face of the earth. Are we hearing Him?By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Christ born in Bethlehem is manifested as the salvation of all nations. We are called to discover in Him all that we need and desire.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Our Opening Prayer this week encourages us to imitate the Holy Family in "practicing the virtues of family life." By practicing faith, hope and charity, we grow closer to God and to each other.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God made visible in Jesus Christ calls us to become swept up in love of all things invisible and to make His love known in the world.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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In this season when we decorate our homes and our Churches, we also seek to decorate our lives with the virtues and grace that will warmly welcome Jesus Christ this Christmas.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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To live true humility is to have an accurate assessment of who we are and to live within the limits of the person God has created us to be. The Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist teach us this weekend-in their own words-what it means to be humble and to serve the Lord.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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We celebrate with great joy the coming of Christ as a child in Bethlehem so that we may be all the more ardent in our desire for His second coming. May Christ find us watchful and ready this Advent!By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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When we place Christ as King of our hearts and King of the nations, He gives us His peace and newness of life.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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St. John Paul II teaches that women are first in the order of love. Women teach all of humanity what it means to receive the gift of love from God and to express that love in the world around us.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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The Scriptures for this weekend's reading help us to meditate on the four "last things": Death, judgment, heaven and hell. How is Christ, who calls us to eternal life with Him, asking us to be more mindful of that final end?By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to seek Him in humble prayer to ask for good shepherds and good leaders in the Church. How are we called, during this Vocations Awareness Week, to ask for an increase of vocations to the priesthood and religious life?By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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We are completely dependent upon God for mercy, grace and forgiveness. Starting from there, we are able to love God and our neighbor freely and generously.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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God calls us to give ourselves entirely to Him. In letting Christ completely into our lives we are set free and become the men and women we have always been created to be.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Jesus pours out His life for us on the cross and in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. How are we receiving that awesome gift and letting it change us?By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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Christ calls us to become His precious vineyard and to bear the fruit of the Kingdom of God.By Fr. Christopher Mahar
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