Gratitude and faith move together as we unpack Luke 17, Naaman’s healing, and why the Eucharist is a weekly school of thanksgiving. We share how simple obedience “on the way” opens space for healing, and we offer practical ways to practice daily gratitude that deepens belief.

• Gratitude completes the miracle in Luke 17
• Naaman’s pride, simple obedience, and renewal
• The scandal of simplicity in mercy and penance
• Healing “on the way” and obedience before evidence
• Eucharist as thanksgiving and weekly gratitude practice
• St Paul’s joy in chains and unchained Word of God
• Daily examen and concrete habits of thankfulness
• Why nine didn’t return and the risk of forgetting the giver
• Faith and gratitude as inseparable dispositions

We explore how gratitude and faith form a living cycle that turns requests into worship and blessings into a life of return. Naaman, the healed Samaritan, and Paul in chains reveal why thanksgiving completes the miracle and matures trust.

• Naaman’s pride confronted by simple obedience
• Healing of the ten lepers and one returning
• Gratitude completing the miracle into salvation
• Faith, gratitude, and worship as a single movement
• Paul’s chains contrasted with an unchained word
• Eucharist as thanksgiving and a school of memory
• Practical call to return with thanks after answers
• Gratitude turning fear into trust and pain into purpose

We press into the fear that our faith is too small and find freedom in trusting a faithful God. From pride’s demand for proof to the slow work of waiting, we explore how daily, ordinary yeses shape courage, heal wounds, and move real mountains.

• faith measured by trust, not size
• risk and reason held together in belief
• pride’s need for control versus surrender
• living on God’s terms and timing
• exercising faith through daily prayer and forgiveness
• perseverance stories that witness to God’s fidelity
• waiting as the school of trust
• Jesus’ confidence in us and the gift of the Eucharist
• bringing doubts and fears as mustard seeds

When you come forward to receive Jesus in the Eucharist, bring your mustard seed. Bring your doubts, bring your fears, your little faith, place it into his hands, and let him grow it.

We sit with Father Adam to explore a winding road from punk stages to priestly vows, the miracle surrounding his father’s last rites, and the hard joy of going all in with Christ. Luke 16:19–31 becomes a mirror for desire, wealth, and a call to spiritual fatherhood.

• meaning of Priesthood Sunday and gratitude for priests
• Father Adam’s path from cultural Catholicism to conversion
• beauty as a doorway to God and daily habits of prayer
• surrendering good desires to receive a new form of fatherhood
• Isaiah 49 as courage to leap in discernment
• ordination, shared suffering, and a providential goodbye
• Rich Man and Lazarus as a warning against numbed compassion
• ordering ambition, wealth, and work to God’s glory
• celibacy as freedom for spiritual fatherhood and service
• simple steps to put Christ first and remove blinders

We draw a clear line from the parable of the rich man and Lazarus to the quiet ways complacency blinds us to people at our gate. We challenge prosperity myths, name everyday Lazaruses, and lay out concrete steps to resist indifference with love.

• the inner struggle between generosity and complacency
• why Lazarus is named and the rich man is forgotten
• indifference as the real sin, not wealth
• how prosperity myths distort faith and ethics
• the slow drift into numbness and blindness
• identifying Lazarus in family, work, and community
• faith as daily conversion, not comfort
• salvation as communal: an economy of love

Father Vigoa and Michelle Lopez unpack prioritizing our relationship with Christ above everything else.

• The cross is Christianity's defining symbol – not a crown or throne – reflecting our call to embrace suffering
• Lukewarm faith seeks blessings without surrender and lacks urgency in spiritual growth
• Jesus demands first place in our hearts, reordering all other relationships properly
• Embracing our crosses transforms suffering into redemptive experiences
• St. Maximilian Kolbe's story demonstrates how faith can transform even the darkest circumstances
• Identifying your specific cross and bringing it honestly before God is the first step toward transformation
• Young people should use easier seasons to build strong spiritual foundations for future challenges
• Priests carry the weight of others' crosses while learning to surrender these burdens to Christ

Father Vigoa and Michelle unpack Jesus's challenging words from Luke 13 about the narrow gate and what it means to be counted among "the few" who enter it.

• Striving for salvation requires intentional spiritual practices and consistent effort
• Being "sacramentally near but spiritually far" happens when we attend religious services without interior transformation
• Confession serves as a critical first step toward authentic conversion and relationship with Christ
• Prayer must evolve from memorized formulas to intimate, spontaneous conversation with God
• Christian joy doesn't depend on circumstances but on the unchanging truth of Christ's resurrection
• Spiritual growth requires "showing up" even when we don't feel like it
• Community involvement in parish life helps us "catch" holiness from others
• The narrow gate represents a path that requires effort but leads to eternal paradise

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross invites us to see how Jesus transformed an instrument of torture into the greatest symbol of victory and love. This challenging homily explores how the cross demands more than admiration—it calls for complete discipleship in a world where violence often replaces dialogue.

• The cross was Rome's way of saying "your life doesn't matter" but Jesus transformed it into a proclamation of love
• A cross is not a decoration but a demand that asks if we will follow Jesus completely
• When violence enters public life and threatens free speech, we betray the cross
• Recent political violence reminds us that truth needs witnesses, not weapons
• Students are challenged to speak truth with love rather than retreat into silence
• Personal suffering, when carried with Christ, becomes a doorway to eternal life
• Love, not hatred or violence, always has the last word

Hail O Holy Cross, our only hope.