Teaching & Preaching: Deacon Matt's homilies & podcasts

Homily preached by Deacon Matt Newsome on Easter Sunday at St. Mary Mother of God parish in Sylva, NC.

"When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed" (Jn 2:6-8).

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent (Year C readings) preached at the Catholic Campus Ministry chapel of Our Lady of the Annunciation at Western Carolina University on Sunday, April 3, by Deacon Matt Newsome.

"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her" (Jn 8:7)

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent, using the readings from Year A for the scrutinies, preached on Sunday, April 3, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC.

"I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die" (Jn 11:25-26).

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on the First Sunday of Lent, March 6, 2022.

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C), preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC on February 6, 2022.

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on December 5, 2021, for the 2nd Sunday of Advent (C). 

Homily preached on November 7, 2021, by Deacon Matthew Newsome at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, for the 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B).

"Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood." Mk 12:43-44

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome on the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B), October 10, 2021, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC.

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome on September 5, 2021, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC.

How does the "Messianic Secret" correspond with the Church's evangelical mission?

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome on Aug. 1, 2021, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst” (Jn 6:35).