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Heart of the Homily

Heart of the Homily

By: St Augustine Catholic Parish
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Join us as we revisit Sunday’s Gospel and homily by Fr Vigoa, digging deeper into it’s message and how we can take it from the pew into the rest of our week. We hope “heart of the homily” podcast helps to transform and shape how you pray, think, live and love this week.

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Episodes
  • Homily | March 29, 2026 | Holy Week Starts In Your Heart (Episode 70)
    Mar 29 2026

    Holy Week begins as something personal, not symbolic, because the Passion is not only about what happens to Jesus but what happens inside us. We face the hard truth of how quickly we can praise God and then push him away, and we decide whether we will walk with Christ all the way to the cross.
    • the Palm Sunday turn from Hosanna to Crucify Him
    • refusing to distance ourselves from the crowd
    • Jesus seeing our inconsistency and coming anyway
    • the cross as a deliberate and chosen act of love
    • the question of staying close when it costs something
    • Holy Week as something we enter, not watch
    • a single line to carry all week: He didn’t turn back
    I urge you to come on Holy Thursday, not just to see the washing of the feet, to hear about the Eucharist, where he gives himself to us. Come on, Good Friday. Don't avoid the cross. Stand right in front of it. Come to the vigil, not just celebrate Easter experience, but how we see the darkness breaking into the light. Or the light breaking into the darkness.


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    6 mins
  • Homily | March 27, 2026 | Faith Gets Tested When Truth Gets Clear (Episode 69)
    Mar 27 2026

    Friends can watch for your misstep, truth can provoke resistance, and faith gets real the moment it costs you something. We connect Jeremiah’s suffering to Jesus’ confrontation in the Gospel and challenge ourselves to stop delaying the surrender we already know we need.
    • Jeremiah’s pain of being opposed by people who know him
    • The Gospel conflict escalating from whispers to stones
    • Resistance rising when truth becomes clear and light exposes hidden things
    • The difference between not understanding and refusing to accept
    • Questions for self-examination about sins, habits, relationships, and delayed decisions
    • Trusting God as a mighty champion instead of chasing comfort and approval
    • Choosing a side because neutrality is not an option
    • Real freedom coming from a life ordered to the Father
    So today, don't just admire Christ. Don't just listen, choose, stand, trust, because the same God who stood with Jeremiah is the same Father who was with the Son, is now with you.


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    5 mins
  • Homily | March 26, 2026 | If Jesus Is The I Am Then Stop Negotiating (Episode 68)
    Mar 26 2026

    Jesus speaks the line that ends the debate: “Before Abraham came to be, I am,” and we face the real weight of what that claim means. We connect that moment to Abraham’s covenant and name change, then ask where we hear Christ’s word but refuse to keep it.
    • Jesus’ “I am” as a direct claim to divinity
    • Why familiarity can dull the shock of the Gospel
    • God’s covenant with Abram and the meaning of a changed name
    • Identity reshaped by God’s call rather than self-definition
    • Faith as trusting God’s word without full understanding
    • Abraham as a model of obedience and surrender
    • “Keeping” Christ’s word versus agreeing with it
    • The ways we resist by reinterpreting, softening, and delaying
    • A personal examination of where we live outside the covenant
    • Surrender as the path to becoming who we’re meant to be


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    5 mins
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