Fr. Joe Dailey

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Barbara Brown Taylor notices a change of perspective with Christmas. See how Luke describes it in today’s Gospel: “The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem  and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger." (Luke 2:16) “Everyone in the story is looking down, at a baby they could all see. The light had moved. It was coming from below, not above.”

I have Mass at Holy Name in Birmingham on December 31 @ 4:00 pm.

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Sometimes this story is called “The Child Jesus Lost in Jerusalem” Or “The Finding in the Temple.” Luke Timothy Johnson names this story “Jesus Teaching in the Temple.” We could look at the losses in our own lives from this perspective, and ask: “What is God trying to teach me through this experience?”

I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, December 29 @ 9:30/11:30 am

I have Mass on December 31st at Holy Name in Birmingham @ 4 pm. 

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In receiving the gift of God, we, in turn, become the gift. “He gave power to become children of God.” In this interim time, we must be the face of God for each other. To see those who are invisible and smile on those who feel ashamed. 

I have Mass on Christmas Morning at St. Isidore @ 8:30 am

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Luke gives us Elizabeth’s response, "but Mary would have certainly spoken first. ‘Peace, Peace be with you’. And this simple greeting made something vibrate, someone, inside of Elizabeth. And in this vibration, something was said. … Which is the Good News. (Blessed Christian de Chergé, Trappist monk, 20th Century Martyr of Algeria)

I have Mass on Sunday, December 22 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am

I will have Mass on Christmas Morning at St. Isidore @ 8:30 am

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Even Zephaniah, who has been called the “gloomiest” of the prophets, did not give devastation and judgment the last word. Zephaniah kept the last word for joy.
“The LORD, your God, is in your midst,
        he will rejoice over you with gladness,
             and renew you in his love.”

I have Mass on Sunday, December 15
at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am
at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm

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This weekend the world will gather to celebrate the restored Cathedral of Notre Dame, Our Lady of Paris, which was nearly destroyed by fire in April, 2019. . . If we can do this, if we can put aside our national interests and come together for a common good, how much more could we do together to repair the world?

I am away this weekend.

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Pope Francis read a letter from a Ukrainian student. “When you speak of our pain, when you remember our thousand days of suffering, speak of our thousand days of love, too, because only love, faith, and hope give a real meaning to our wounds.” (Papal Audience at the Vatican, November 20)

I have Mass at St. Isidore on December 1st @ 9:30/11:30 am

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For fifteen days, Maximilian Kolbe occupied the space of death with such a powerful presence and calm that once he had died there was, according to the survivors, a noticeable change in the ambience of the camp. 

I have Mass on Sunday, November 24 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am

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What had seemed like the end is a discovery of something we didn’t know before. “But the wise shall shine brightly like the splendor of the firmament, and those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever." (Daniel 12:3)

I do not have Mass this weekend.

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The widow says nothing, and yet her action speaks volumes. The Greek word for her ‘giving her whole life’ prefigures the sacrifice Jesus is about to make.

I have Mass on Sunday, November 10
at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am
at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm.

The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/

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