Preaching Videos

For Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026, exploring a humorous yet profound detail from the Book of Jonah. When the King of Nineveh orders a fast, he demands that not only the people but even the beasts and animals wear sackcloth and ashes and abstain from food. Why would animals, who cannot sin, need to fast?

For Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026, breaking down the "economy" of the Lord’s Prayer, focusing on four essential words—Blessed, Will, Bread, and Forgiveness

For Monday, 23 Feb 2026. Jesus gives us a clear roadmap for our Lenten journey powerful vision of the Last Judgment from Matthew's Gospel (Chapter 25): commit to the works of mercy towards the hungry, the thirsty, the immigrant stranger, the unclothed, the sick, and those in prison.

For 22 Feb 2026, the First Sunday of Lent. Temptation, when faced in prayer, becomes a necessary confrontation between our human nature and the Word of God.

The Lenten season begins where Jesus’ public ministry began: in the wilderness. Fr. Brendan challenges us not to see the desert only as a biblical story, but as a present reality—in the faces of day laborers waiting in parking lots, ride-share drivers starting new lives, and restaurant workers facing the heat of the ovens.

Fr. 21 Feb 2026. The challenge of Lent is to retrain our hearts. Just as Olympic athletes use discipline to make difficult physical feats look easy, we can use Lenten discipline to make virtue and goodness become our "new easy."

For 20 Feb 2026. There is a common frustration in the spiritual life: Why do we keep confessing the same list of sins over and over again?

For 19 Feb 2026. Lent is a radical reorientation. By de-centering our false selves and stepping back from the noise, we aren't losing our lives—we are finding our true selves in God.

For Ash Wednesday. While Lent is a penitential season, it is also a season of joy, found in the Psalm response: "Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned." There is profound hope in knowing we have a merciful God who loves us through our weaknesses.

For 17 Feb, 2026, we tackle a common spiritual confusion regarding the reality of temptation. It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that God sends us temptations as a "test" of our faithfulness. However, the Epistle of St. James corrects this misunderstanding.

For 16 Feb 2026. It is often through our life's struggles and perseverance that we grow in wisdom—not merely intellectual knowledge, but a deep spiritual insight.

for Feb 15, 2025. What is the meaning of God's commandments? Drawing from the book of Sirach, Fr. Brendan focuses on a powerful phrase: "If you choose, you can keep the commandments."