Mike Landry: Catholic speaker, writer, & music minister in Alberta, Canada
Mike Landry: serving Catholic youth by speaking, singing, and writing.
The following is the text of Deacon Pat Hessel’s homily as preached at Holy Trinity Parish on October 20-21, 2018 (29th Sunday in Ordinary Time): Two ladies were sitting in the doctor’s waiting room. One of the ladies lent her pen to the other. The lady who lent her pen wrote the following: “They seem […]
On Tuesday, June 12, 2018, Deacon Pat Hessel preached the following homily to students at St. Peter the Apostle High School in Spruce Grove: Have you ever felt irrelevant – insignificant – like you really didn’t matter? Maybe you’re not a star athlete or a top student. Maybe your parents or your friends don’t always […]
Below is the written text for Deacon Pat Hessel’s homily at Holy Trinity Parish on the weekend of August 6-7, 2016 – on our motivation for living our life of faith. Some people speak about reward and punishment in terms of “the carrot and the stick.” They talk about it in relation to motivating people. […]
The following is the text of Deacon Pat Hessel’s Homily from the weekend of Sept 27-28, 2014 at Holy Trinity Parish in Spruce Grove. I read a book last week called “The Case for a Creator.” It was written by Lee Strobel. He’s a former newspaper reporter and was once an atheist. He says […]
