Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time.   September 20, 2020 The Lord really wants workers. As Jesus tells us in the parable, the owner of a vineyard, who symbolizes God, goes out at 6 am, 9 am, noon, 3 pm, and even at 5 pm [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.   September 6, 2020 To understand what Jesus says in today’s Gospel, we need to remember that God created us for relationships. “It is not good for man to be alone,” He said. He made us to love and [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time.   August 30, 2020 “Do not conform yourselves to this age.” Great advice from St. Paul today, since conformity with what’s happening around us often sets us at odds with God. But not to go along with the times [...]

    Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the Consecration of the New Altar at Nazareth House Seminary   August 25, 2020 For thousands of years, people of faith have erected altars where they could worship God and find healing and courage in His Name: Abraham constructed an altar [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time.   August 23, 2020 “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” What amazement must have filled Simon Peter’s heart when he heard himself say these words about Jesus. He had not planned to do so. He [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for Consecrated Virgins Living in the World   August 22, 2020 “The world will be saved by beauty.” Many people are familiar with these words of Dostoevsky. However, few know “the rest of the story.” The great Russian writer immediately followed that famous phrase with a [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time.   August 16, 2020 Imagine having a daughter “tormented by a demon.” Perhaps she was kidnapped by sex-traffickers and is caught up in the diabolical slavery of prostitution. Perhaps she is addicted to pornography—a horrific, modern-day slavery corrupting our [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time.   August 9, 2020 In the First Reading today (1 Kings 19:9ff), Elijah the Prophet is frightened and deeply discouraged. His life is in grave danger because He did what God asked him to do. In obedience to the [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time.   August 2, 2020 “Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.” St. Paul marveled at this fact. No matter what he suffered, it never kept him from experiencing of God’s love. In fact, every crisis he faced [...]

Following is the prepared text from Bishop Olmsted’s homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time.   July 26, 2020 “Out of joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” In the parables we just heard, Jesus speaks of the ability to recognize something of great value when one finds [...]