The Homilies of Father Merkley

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 in Ordinary Time, Year B)

Am I Patient - Do I Humbly Serve? (25th Sunday in 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 in 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)