St. Agnes Catholic Church\ October 25/26, 2025 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102625.cfm I want you to imagine that, before you die, you are able to speak a message to the world, a message that will be spread to everyone and will be preserved for history to be studied and remembered. What would you say? What would your legacy be? We have just such a message from St. Paul in his second letter to Timothy, which we have been hearing all this month. In this, Paul’s so-called farewell discourse, we encounter these famous, beautiful words: I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. [Now] The Lord will rescue me …and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen. Paul wrote this letter from prison in Rome, where he was awaiting execution by the...
These posts are the collected homilies of Deacon Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, assigned to St. Agnes Catholic Church. The title "Foot Washer" refers to the Last Supper (John 13:1-20) in which Jesus washed the feet of the apostles and challenged them, "“Do you realize what I have done for you? If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow."