April 23, 2023 Today’s message from the Holy Spirit and Jesus is simple, profound and reassuring. That he walks with us and will appear to us, from time to time, when we are with others, when we are just walking along in life and not expecting him to happen by. We are accustomed to findContinue reading “III Sunday of Easter: Jesus, Help me to appreciate everyone I meet”
Category Archives: Father Richard Mangini
III Lent: Put Your Truth On the Table
March 12, 2023 (An introduction only) “Put your truth on the table.” Pope Francis’ piece of advice this last Wednesday at his weekly audience. When we become frustrated that our will and plans are not fulfilled, as quickly as we would like, or not all, we crumble and complain or shake our fists. “Why didContinue reading “III Lent: Put Your Truth On the Table”
February 5, 2023: Your light must shine before others
We cannot get away from God, because as a very fundamental experience of being and existing, God exists in each one of us, as a fundamental human incarnation. As I have said often, if God does not exist in us, we cease to exist. St. Paul described this so well when he spoke and debatedContinue reading “February 5, 2023: Your light must shine before others”
January 29, 2023
IV Sunday in Ordinary Time 1st Homily: We identify with every human situation and try to make it better So, which is it? Blessed are the poor in spirit or blessed are those who punch their way through life? Do we share our common lives as human beings or is one cultural group better thanContinue reading “January 29, 2023”
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus invites us after a shockwave to put our ingenuity to work, to walk through positive possibilities with the help of others who will appear
9/18/22 We have to work. We need a job that is fair and pays well. We need money. We need a career which fulfills our life. We need relationships that complement and fulfill ourselves as human beings. We need values. We set priorities. We need our families and our human relationships. We need to beContinue reading “28th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus invites us after a shockwave to put our ingenuity to work, to walk through positive possibilities with the help of others who will appear”
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Tame our ego, look for the truth, have some personal discipline and invite God to help
September 11, 2022 As a younger child, I used to go to “confession” every Saturday night, and I repeated the same sins of fighting with my brothers and sister and disobeying my parents – for years. I did not substitute a molten calf for Jesus in the blessed sacrament. I was not a “stiff neckedContinue reading “24th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Tame our ego, look for the truth, have some personal discipline and invite God to help”
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Thoughts on Humility
August 28, 2022 One of the things that I find most difficult to do as a priest is to sit at a head table or at “the” most special seat of honor. I understand “the special seat” as a sign of love and affection and that it is a sign of thanks and admiration. WhileContinue reading “22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Thoughts on Humility“
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Heaven is God’s Gift to Us
August 21, 2022 The first thing/idea that strikes my attention is the question that someone asked Jesus. Maybe it was the Gospel writer or maybe the Gospel writer had heard the question asked many times: “Lord, will only a few be saved?” Hmmm, I thought to myself: I went back several Sundays – questions? Jesus’Continue reading “18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Heaven is God’s Gift to Us”
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Expressing our intimacy with God through prayer
July 24, 2022 Persist, Pester, Perish. Jesus said a number of things about prayer and praying. He talked about prayer as being simple and natural. He was most concerned about making prayer a “show” or about tying ourselves up in endless words. All of us were taught three or four of the most handed downContinue reading “17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Expressing our intimacy with God through prayer”
7th Sunday of Easter
May 29, 2022 (This is a draft homily that Fr. Mangini wrote based off the 7th Sunday of Easter readings, which he did before realizing that the Ascension Readings were being used.) The Archbishop of San Francisco who bans the Speaker of the House from receiving Holy Communion and the Speaker of the House proclaimingContinue reading “7th Sunday of Easter“
Harvest and Hope 