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Deacon Jerry’s Lenten Reflection: 2nd Sunday of Lent

All three readings from this Sunday give us a greatly expanded understanding of God’s covenant with us. If you recall in last Sunday’s first reading, God covenants with Noah that God will no longer destroy the earth by a flood. [read more...]

Deacon Jerry’s Lenten Reflection: 1st Sunday of Lent

In the first reading this Sunday, God tells Noah of God’s covenant that he will never again destroy the world by flood. God made the rainbow in the sky as symbol to remind us of this promise. Earlier God had [read more...]

The Bread of Life

At Saturday’s Vigil Mass on July 24, 2021, Deacon Jerry Brennan’s Homily reminded all that the Eucharist is not merely a symbol of Christ, but is actually the true presence — the body and blood — of Jesus, sacrificed for [read more...]

Place God in the Center of Your Marriage

In his homily on June 3, 2021, Our Lady of the Wayside Deacon Jerry Brennan encouraged married couples to pray together and to place God in the center of their marriage. Deacon Jerry provided compelling statistics supporting the adage, “Those [read more...]

Deacon Jerry’s Reflection, Divine Mercy Sunday

Divine Mercy Sunday Forty days of Lent, then Easter. Some of us were able to gather as we traditionally have for Easter and some of us were not able to gather. Why did the Church, in it’s wisdom, place Divine [read more...]

The Magi Honored Christ, As Must We

When I was first married, we worked in my wife’s family greenhouses over Christmas break. It was a pleasant time, the sun and the warmth under the glass. We were not moving poinsettias around. Mostly we were working with immature [read more...]