Fr. Steve Mateja's Podcasts

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Fr. Steve Mateja's Podcasts episodes

June 29, 2015 June 28, 2015: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Fr. Steve served as Associate Pastor at OLGC from July 2012 until July 2015. In this final homily from the 10 AM Mass he spoke on the Supreme Court decision to legalize same sex marriage asking the questions: is the Church dead? Where do we go from here? How do we respond?
19 min
June 29, 2015 June 27, 2015: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Fr. Steve served as Associate Pastor at OLGC from July 2012 until July 2015. In this final homily from the 4 PM Mass he spoke on the Supreme Court decision to legalize same sex marriage asking the questions: is the Church dead? Where do we go from here? How do we respond?
17 min
June 22, 2015 June 21, 2015: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Happy Father's Day! Often Fr. John preaches to me asking them to be great--but how in today's day and age? ALL FOR JESUS TODAY!
12 min
June 15, 2015 June 14, 2015: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
To fully live in God's freedom is one of the hardest things. Fr. Steve recently went to Spain and the Lord showed him how to live in His freedom in three things: when bad things happen, with material possessions, and with sharing the Gospel.
14 min
June 11, 2015 June 11, 2015: Last Mass of the School Year
Fr. Mateja presided at the last Mass for the current school year and challenged the students to tell others about Jesus during their summer vacation and to share their faith with their friends.
12 min
May 18, 2015 May 17, 2015: Ascension Sunday (B)
What is the Ascension and why is it pivotal for our faith? Fr. Steve explores the collect which reveals to us the answer.
"Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God, and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving, for the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before us in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope."
12 min
May 11, 2015 May 10, 2015: 6th Sunday of Easter (B) (Mother's Day)
Today we celebrate Mother's Day. I have really come to understand in a clearer way two important things: 1) that all women are under attack; and 2) that not every women loves Mother's Day. So today we'd like to celebrate all women on this day.
13 min
April 28, 2015 April 26, 2015: 4th Sunday of Easter-Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel
Fr. Steve shares his testimony of why he loves the Blessed Virgin Mary. Three things in particular: where it all began, his love for her title of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and where it took off.
18 min
April 09, 2015 April 5, 2015: Easter Mass Homily
Is the Resurrection of Jesus a laughing matter? Is it believable? Acceptable? Rational? Logical? Let's look at the proofs and make our decision from there.
17 min
April 03, 2015 Holy Thursday Homily
Why did Jesus allow Himself to become bread to be eaten? For friendship! He desires our friendship. Friendship surrounds both sacrifice and a meal. We too partake in the sacrifice of the cross and then are fed from it! Then we too, must become Eucharist for others. Sacrificing and feeding them.
10 min