Fr. Pierre Ingram's Podcasts

Fr. Pierre preached at all of the masses at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church this past weekend. In this homily from the 5 PM Mass, Fr. Pierre discusses the missionary nature of the church and encourages the congregants to look for the Bartimaeuses in their own lives that they might lead to an encounter with Jesus.    30th SUNDAY YEAR B A strange thing happens in the gospel today: people who are already with Jesus, who are following Him on the road, try to prevent someone new from meeting Jesus. Maybe they feel this blind man is bothering them with his shouting, or bothering Jesus. But isn't this a strange attitude? This is not a crowd of skeptics or unbelievers. They may not all be disciples, in the fully committed sense of the word, but they're all at least interested in the Person of Jesus, and what He is saying about the Kingdom of God. Many of them, no doubt, have directly benefited from His ministry of teaching, healing, casting out demons. Why would they not want these blessings to be sha