Category: We Are Called to Be Living Icons of Christ / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
December 22, 2022
As we prepare to welcome the first arrival of Christ, we also prepare for His Second Coming. As part of that preparation, we are called to be living icons of Christ.
Category: Christmas: Christ is born anew in our hearts / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
December 05, 2022
These weeks of Advent, we need to prepare to welcome Christ in our lives. On Christmas, Christ is born anew in our hearts.
Category: Live Your Life--Now / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
November 27, 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent, 11/27/2022–and the beginning of the new Church year. “No one but the Father knows the day or the hour for the Second Coming of Christ.”...
Category: Thank You for Everything / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
November 25, 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for Thanksgiving Day, 11/24/2022. (Readings: Deuteronomy 26: 1-11; Psalm 100; Philippians 4: 1-9; John 6: 25-35) YouTube Link: Holistic Eucharist–Thanksgiving Day, 11/24/2022 Link: Tithe.ly–Our Online Giving Resource Link: CEB Stewardship 2022...
Category: Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
November 20, 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 24th (Last) Sunday after Pentecost, 11/20/2022 (Christ the King Sunday)–Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe, is crucified between two thieves. One of the...
Category: Saint--a dead sinner revised and edited by Jesus Christ / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
November 06, 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for All Saints Sunday–the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost, 11/06/2022, Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL Ambrose Pierce, famous humorist, wrote a comic dictionary in which he defined “Saint” as “a dead sinner...
Category: Jesus--I Must Stay at Your House Today / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
October 31, 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, 10/30/2022. In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells Zacchaeus, a Jewish tax collector, that “I must stay at your house today.” Jesus’s presence in the tax collector’s...
Category: a Sinner, Have Mercy on Me / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
October 23, 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost, 10/23/2022. Jesus tells the parable about a Pharisee and a tax collector, The Pharisee was praising himself and the tax collector was asking God for...
Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
October 17, 2022
How much more responsive than an unjust judge will God be to the persistent pleas of His people?
Category: Christ Calls Us to Be Open and to Share, Forgiveness, Forgiveness With Others / Speaker: The Reverend Michael D. Rasicci
October 10, 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, 10/09/2022, Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL. In today’s Gospel (Luke 17), Christ heals a Samaritan leper. The Samaritan returns to Jesus to thank Him and...
