by Joshua Plandowski | Mar 18, 2025 | All Posts
Homily on the Gospel of Mark 13:24-32 Given at the Five Year Anniversary of the SVDP Dayton Chapel Although we do not generally spend a lot of time thinking about the end of the world or about what will happen when the world ends, there are times when such thinking is...
by Joshua Plandowski | Mar 4, 2025 | All Posts
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, 40 days spent in prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in preparation for Easter. Lent gives us the opportunity to serve others through almsgiving, practice self-control through fasting, and abstain from luxuries to help lead us to...
by Joshua Plandowski | Jan 8, 2021 | All Posts
Timothy was doing everything he could to protect his three children – ages 6, 7 and 8– from an abusive situation. Shortly after taking full custody and already stretched financially, Timothy lost his job. Soon they were without a home. “For two nights we slept...
by Joshua Plandowski | Sep 27, 2020 | All Posts
Gospel: (Mt. 5:1-9) When Jesus saw the crowds he went up on the mountainside…his disciples gathered around him, and he began to teach them: “How blest ate the poor in spirit: the reign of God is theirs. Blest too are the sorrowing; they shall be consoled. Blest are...
by Joshua Plandowski | Sep 20, 2020 | All Posts
Gospel: (Matthew 20:1-16) Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard….When it was evening...
