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Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

196 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings

Fr. Rene Pellessier, LT, is a Catholic Priest serving in the Navy as a Chaplain. He presently stationed in Sasebo, Japan as a base chaplain running the Catholic Program. Few things bring him more joy than giving his sheep “a good fussing.” Listener be advised, Fr. Pellessier does not exactly deliver his homilies in a soft-spoken manner.

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Episodes

Jesus and Jonah

April 19, 2024 05:02 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MB

Jesus and Jonah by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Vengeance and Mercy

April 07, 2024 11:18 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MB

Vengeance and Mercy by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Nixon and the Resurrection

March 31, 2024 21:10 - 4 minutes - 6.29 MB

The first 30 seconds failed to record. They were basically a restatement of how we as Christians believe in the Resurrection.

Wielding Kingly Power

March 24, 2024 11:07 - 7 minutes - 9.69 MB

Wielding Kingly Power by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Lose Yourself

March 17, 2024 06:10 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB

Lose Yourself by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Facing the Consequences of our Sin

March 13, 2024 01:10 - 8 minutes - 4.17 MB

Facing the Consequences of our Sin by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Destroying the Temple

March 03, 2024 10:59 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MB

Destroying the Temple by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Combat

March 03, 2024 10:58 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MB

Combat by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Playing on the Field or Sitting on the Bench?

February 15, 2024 10:09 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MB

Playing on the Field or Sitting on the Bench? by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Good, Bad, Better: The Plot of Every Good Story

February 04, 2024 12:08 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MB

Good, Bad, Better: The Plot of Every Good Story by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Why Can't Priest Get Married? It's not why you think...

January 28, 2024 11:34 - 15 minutes - 20.6 MB

Why Can't Priest Get Married? It's not why you think... by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Listening to God When He is Silent

January 14, 2024 11:41 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MB

Listening to God When He is Silent by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Augustus v. Jesus

January 08, 2024 11:39 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MB

Augustus v. Jesus by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

The Problem with Solving Problems...

January 08, 2024 11:35 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MB

And its solution.

Standing the Watch in the Spirit of Advent

January 08, 2024 11:33 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MB

Standing the Watch in the Spirit of Advent by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Being a Man Like John the Baptist

January 08, 2024 11:28 - 7 minutes - 10 MB

Being a Man Like John the Baptist by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Happy while Waiting

January 08, 2024 11:25 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MB

Gaudete Sunday

Justin Bieber: Loving Yourself or Loving Others?

November 26, 2023 22:05 - 13 minutes - 6.39 MB

What a modern-day pop music icon can teach us about love.

Mufasa as Christ the King

November 26, 2023 22:02 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MB

What King best points us to Christ the King?

A Heavenly Investment Strategy

November 19, 2023 11:49 - 11 minutes - 15.1 MB

A Heavenly Investment Strategy by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Meaning of Wisdom

November 19, 2023 11:48 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MB

What it means to truly be wise.

Dealing with Liars

November 19, 2023 11:42 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MB

Dealing with Liars by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Dressing for Respect

November 19, 2023 11:39 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MB

Why we really dress up for Mass.

The War of the Wolves

November 19, 2023 11:35 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB

How an Old Cherokee Legend beautifully illustrates Spiritual Warfare.

The Wisdom of The Little Flower

November 19, 2023 11:32 - 11 minutes - 15.2 MB

Why St. Therese both bothers and captivates me.

Addressing Atheism: A Solution to the Problem of Evil

November 19, 2023 11:27 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MB

Addressing the problem of evil.

Why I don't like the Modern Translation of the Our Father

November 19, 2023 11:21 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MB

Forget forgiving trespasses. Forgive debts!

Digging for Treasure

November 19, 2023 11:13 - 9 minutes - 13.5 MB

How to find treasure in a dirty world

Don't Make it Worse! A Homily on Iatrogenics

November 19, 2023 07:14 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MB

How the Hippocratic Oath shapes our spiritual healing.

Growing the Word of God

November 19, 2023 07:09 - 12 minutes - 17.6 MB

How to allow God to turn the soil in our hearts

The Glory of Joan of Arc

July 15, 2023 01:51 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MB

The Glory of Joan of Arc by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

My Experience with YOLO

July 02, 2023 08:25 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MB

My Experience with YOLO by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

The Almighty Father

June 28, 2023 11:06 - 13 minutes - 19 MB

A Father's Message

True Fear

June 28, 2023 11:06 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MB

June 25, 2023 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time

The Eucharist: The Food that Sustained My Six Years of Priesthood

June 13, 2023 10:42 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MB

The Eucharist: The Food that Sustained My Six Years of Priesthood by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Knowing before Loving: Explaining the Trinity

June 06, 2023 11:14 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MB

Knowing before Loving: Explaining the Trinity by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Pentecost: The Church's Diversity Day

May 30, 2023 10:20 - 12 minutes - 17 MB

Pentecost: The Church's Diversity Day by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Mothers and the Eucharist

May 14, 2023 10:52 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MB

On this Mother's Day we at the Sasebo Chapel also celebrated First Communion. This homily synthesizes my thoughts on the similarities between the love of motherhood and the love of Jesus.

It's Complicated: Shepherds, Cattlemen, and the Freemasons

April 30, 2023 12:49 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MB

The first part of the homily was cut off. I began by stating that I was a city boy from Lafayette and I grew up having no experience with live shepherding, but I did have some experience watching men raise cows. One of the greatest men in my life to do so was my cousin, whom we called Nonc Bacque. He would raise cattle on our family farm and his example showed me how to effectively raise cows, and showed me a a lot about being a shepherd. Shepherding is not often depicted as a dirty job. In f...

The Importance of the Holy Hour

April 24, 2023 13:17 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB

Why I credit my holy hour to keeping my vocation.

Why I Hate Resiliency!

April 22, 2023 11:57 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MB

Happy Easter Everyone!

We follow a REAL KING!

April 22, 2023 11:54 - 5 minutes - 7.67 MB

There were many heroes in human history who conquered many a land and foe, but not one of them conquered death itself.

Good Friday as Fulfillment of Passover

April 22, 2023 11:50 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MB

The meaning behind all this wine.

Do I Really Need to Confess my Sins to be Saved??

April 22, 2023 11:44 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MB

That's what Jesus seems to say...

Confessing directly to God??

April 22, 2023 11:40 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MB

Can you really just confess to God?

Maybe Yes. Maybe No.

April 22, 2023 11:33 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MB

Stop judging our circumstances, and start praising God.

Identifying with the Woman at the Well

April 22, 2023 11:25 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MB

The Woman at the Well is the embodiment of mankind.

Lust is a sin because it doesn't burn HOT ENOUGH

April 22, 2023 11:17 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB

Shoot for the stars

Satan and the Sphinx

April 22, 2023 11:09 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MB

Satan and the Sphinx by Fr. Rene Pellessier's Homilies

Getting Thrown into a Lake

March 24, 2023 00:13 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MB

My personal experience.

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Out of this World
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Power of Silence
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