Bishop Donald DeGrood Homilies

Oct 14 2024 121 ep. 8 mins
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A collection of homilies from Bishop Donald DeGrood, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls.

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Prudence and wisdom call for good things

Oct 14 2024 8 mins  
Did you know God wants to fill you with spiritual graces? Being filled with these graces will allow you to live a happy, healthy and holy life. This weekend in his homily, Bishop explained how the virtues of wisdom and prudence call for good things, and allow us to see and know what is good. When we have these virtues, we are able to go out into the world as ambassadors of God to p

When charity captures the heart

Oct 07 2024 4 mins  
What does it mean to have a happy, healthy and holy marriage? This weekend in his homily, Bishop explained how pouring one's self out for the good of the other, and receiving that same self-sacrificing love from your spouse, is what marital love looks like. But in order to give self sacrificing love, one must receive charity, or God's love. We are reminded that until we receive God

Your voice makes a difference

Sep 30 2024 11 mins  
As a baptized Catholic, your prayers and sacrifices have spiritual power. You have the spirit of God alive within you, which gives you the grace to teach and share the Good News of God. And because you have been baptized in Christ you have the power to govern, to govern your life and advocate for others. Through your baptism you are a priest, prophet and king. This weekend in his h

Ephphatha! Be opened to God's grace

Sep 09 2024 7 mins  
Are you free? Have you opened yourself to God's grace and the freedom that comes only from his grace? This weekend in his homily, Bishop reflected on the freedom that comes from complete and total surrender to God, and how he was reminded of this gift from an unlikely source.

The Father knows best

Sep 03 2024 8 mins  
As a child, did you like to pick and choose what you wanted to eat? Looking back can you see how your parents knew better than you did? This weekend in his homily, Bishop explained how we tend to pick and choose what we believe in our faith and sometimes oppose our heavenly Father who knows best. To help us better understand the Church's teaching on hard issues, Bishop encourages u

Open to the graces of God

Aug 19 2024 7 mins  
Have you opened your heart to God? Do you allow him to fill your heart with overflowing graces? This weekend in his homily, Bishop explained how allowing God to move within our hearts allows us to know we are loved by God, fall more deeply in love with God and to love more fully the people in our lives.

The Eucharist: the love feast of heaven

Jul 29 2024 5 mins  
Have you ever thought of the Eucharist as the love feast of heaven? This weekend in his homily, Bishop explained how adoring our Lord in the Eucharist satisfies the deepest parts of our hearts and gives us a foretaste of heaven.

Discerning the voice of truth

Jul 15 2024 17 mins  
Our world is starving for the truth. This weekend in his homily, Bishop explained the importance of sharing the truth. Not only is our world starving to hear the truth, people are asking to be told the truth, even about difficult issues on faith and morals. Bishop also reminded us that true love is charity, and love speaks the truth. Go out into the world and share the truth in lov

Living as citizens of heaven

Jul 08 2024 9 mins  
Do you celebrate your citizenship in God like you celebrate your citizenship as an American? This past weekend Bishop reminded us of the incredible gift we have in the inheritance of heaven as baptized sons and daughters of God. And as baptized Christians, we are called to share the Good News with others so that souls searching for true freedom may find it in the Lord.

The crosses of life

Jun 24 2024 6 mins  
Do you try to run away from or avoid the crosses the Lord gives you? This weekend in his homily, Bishop explained the importance of embracing our crosses, dying to ourselves, remaining on our cross with Christ and allow him to come alive within us.