Fr. Dwight Longenecker

My homily for the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time focuses on how Jesus heals us in body, mind and spirit.

At the beginning of Mark's gospel Jesus astounds his hearers in the synagogue by preaching with cosmic authority and taking domination over a demonic spirit.

You can listen here to my homily from this weekend. This was preached at St John of the Cross, Vero Beach, FL as part of their parish mission.

As I develop the podcast dimension of the new blog-website there will be some podcasts available free of charge, and some podcast series that will be reserved for the Donor-Subscribers. Each week my homily from Our Lady of the Rosary will be available here as a podcast. I hope you benefit from them and feel [...]

You may have heard of my latest book project called The Mystery of the Magi- the Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men. I'm really excited by this book. It has been so interesting to investigate the historicity of the Magi story. One of the reasons the book has been so exciting to produce is because [...]

My homilies from Our Lady of the Rosary are now being recorded and are accessible on the website here. Here is my homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time. It outlines the different levels of meaning packed into John's account of the wedding at Cana in Galilee. There is a theological, ecclesiological and liturgical [...]