by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 8, 2025 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. I was with my family. At diner I sat with my 6:3, 212 pound nephew. We both had seconds. But when he got up to go for his thirds I gave up. It’s hard to keep up with a growing 17-year old young man, not just at the...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 8, 2025 | Pondering With Prompts
Matthew 1:18-24 Lead in: Consider how it was for Mary, the girl engaged to a man named Joseph. Before they were married, even though they had never been intimate, she learned she was pregnant. But then an angel appeared to her. It was through the Holy Spirit that this...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 8, 2025 | Pondering With Prompts
Matthew 11:2-11 Lead in: Jerome Kodell, OSB, describes the situation in Matthew 11:2. John the Baptist is at a very low point in his life. Herod has thrown him into prison. Prompt: Reflect on a low point in your life when nothing seemed to be going right. How did you...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 8, 2025 | Pondering With Prompts
Matthew 3:1-12 Lead in: John the Baptist is the wild man who came out of the desert, unshaven, hair down to his shoulders looking like Rambo wearing a cloak made from the hide of a camel and cinched by a leather strap tied around his waist and eating an all-natural...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 8, 2025 | Pondering With Prompts
Matthew 24:37-44 Lead in: At a time of year made busy by the commercialization of a feast called Christmas, the Advent season provides a timeout in a busy season so that our hearts will be prepared to take in the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of a child whose...
