Father Kevin A. Codd

Three Strikes and You Are Out, Right?

Peter's kind of knucklehead in the Gospels. He is a "three strikes and you are out" kind of guy. 

Jesus responds to his tri-fold failure by insisting on a tri-fold reassurance of his love. He then gives Peter his mission: feed-serve-feed my sheep!

Beyond Even The Stars: Book Reading (Spokane)

Listen in to Father Kevin A. Codd's reading of his latest book, Beyond Even the Stars: A Compostela Pilgrim in France, hosted by Rebecca Nappi. 

The event took place in the Sacred Heart Parish Center with over 125 people in attendance on April 26, 2019.

A Distressing Detail

A brief homily following the extended proclamation of the Passion Narrative from the Gospel of Luke, (the homily begins just after the 19 minute mark). 

Take Off Your Shoes!

Moses in his early days was something of an underachiever...spending his youth tending to sheep in a hot and lonely desert. That changes when God meets him in that desert...and it all begins...and ends...with the command: "Take off your shoes!" 

Within this story are the foundational revelations of who God is for us! 

Take Care of The Pennies and the Dollars will Take Care of Themselves: The Gospel of Small Things

It is easy to be overwhelmed by the moral exhortations of Jesus in today's gospel reading. How can I ever live up to such high standards of loving, forgiving, and self-giving! Maybe the stories of family life can help: it is in the small things that we live Jesus' moral mandates of love.

Where Jesus Learned What He Taught: Mary and the Beatitudes

Jesus sits down with his disciples and gives them his first "formation conference." He teaches them about the kingdom of God in terms of blessings and woes. But from whom did Jesus learn all this? Maybe Mary?

You Just Can't Go Home Again

Jesus' return visit to his hometown of Nazareth begins well enough: he's invited to teach in the village synagogue, and at first, all is well. Then strains in his relationship to his fellow Nazarenes goes south fast. Why? 

Jesus' Mission: Opening the Eyes of the Blind

Jesus returns to Nazareth and in the synagogue of his home town he reads from the prophet Isaiah and declares to all assembled his life mission: to open the eyes of the blind!

Following Our Star!

The onward march of science has taken some of the wonder out of our stars. We now know that they do not travel, they do not accompany, they do not hold within them our destinies. So what of the story of the Three Magi from the East and their famous star guiding them to Bethlehem? Can their story be retold for our times? Let's try!

O Come Emmanuel or O Come All Ye Faithful? Christmas Morning 2018

Sometimes the radio stations just don't quite get it when it comes to separating Advent music from Christmas music! O Come, O Come Emmanuel is decidedly NOT a Christmas hymn and should NOT be aired after mid-day, December 24th! Yet maybe that error in judgement tells us something important about Christmas itself: once we were a people who longed for God to Come to us...now we are a people who are called by God to come to him.