Blog Post 08-30-2025 Homily Cycle I 08-08-2025 – Memorial of St. Dominic

 

He is the patron of astronomers & natural scientists, who popularized the rosary and who started the Dominican Order [O.P.].

There motto is:

To Praise,

To Bless,

To Preach.

 

St. Francis de Sales urged preachers to speak to people’s heart; heart speaking to heart. Fr. Bernie Donhue O.F.S.F.’s advice, about preaching, to me when I was ordained [he received from his mother], “Be Good, Be Brief & Be Gone” and if you can’t “Be Good, [at least] Be Brief & Be Gone.” So, today’s message from Deuteronomy is to be holy not for God’s sake but for our sake to be a whole and fulfilled human who gives glory to God, the Creator. And Matthew’s Gospel reminds us to put Jesus, to put God first.

Let’s try to do that today.

May God Be Praised.

Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080825.cfm