Father James Costigan, born in 1951, was raised and educated in Los Angeles, California. He has an M.A. in English from Cal Poly, Pomona, and a Master of Divinity from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, Cromwell, Connecticut. A carpenter and a teacher, Father Jim also has many years experience as a prayer warrior and counselor outside of America’s abortion clinics. He made his first religious vows in 1997 and was ordained to the priesthood for the Fathers of Mercy in 2002. Having served one year as associate pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Russellville, Kentucky, he now travels America giving parish missions and retreats, especially missions aimed at the establishment and promotion of Eucharistic adoration in chapels and churches.
Fr. Jim Costigan's Recent Posts
Trusting in God
How to Trust God Part One - What You’re Already Good At : Distrusting Him by: Fat...
Judging Others
Judging Wrong and Right by: Father Jim Costigan, CPM Jesus says, “Don’t judge.” America...
Talk, Break, Build: Turning Vice into Virtue
Maybe you’re hooked on some bad habit, caught by some vice, sunk in some addiction -- whether small...
Harry Potter and the Death that Follows
“Always the innocent are the first victims . . . So it has been for ages past, so it is now.” Ronan...
The Vampire’s New Clothes
“This was the problem with hanging out with vampires you got used to them. They started messing up t...
Fr. Jim Costigan's Recent Podcasts
The Sacrament of Baptism – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan teaches us all about Baptism, especially that it makes us a new creation. Preached...
The Immaculate Conception – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan helps to know and love Mary, the Mother of Jesus better and obtain her powerful aid...
Render to God the Things that are God’s – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains how to render to God the things that are God's in an increasingly secular...
The Problem of Evil – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains the problem of evil using Jesus' parable of the weeds and the wheat - Prea...
How to Know God – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains that to know God and to know His Son Jesus Christ requires that we be lowl...
The Disciples with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains the story of the disciples who recognized Jesus in the breaking of bread -...
The Presentation of the Lord and the Purification of Mary – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains some aspects of the mysterious feasts that are celebrated today: the Purif...
Thirsting for God – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan teaches us what it means for God to thirst for us, and also how that means we must...
What Heaven is Like – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains how far off the Sadducees were in their understanding of life after death,...
Compuction, Contrition, Conversion, and Confession – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains Pope Gregory the Great's teachings on compuction, contrition, and our need...
Fake It Until You Make It – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim explains what we must do to change for the better - fake it until you make it - Preached in...
Corpus Christi – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan helps us understand why Jesus gives us Himself under appearances of bread and wine,...
The New Commandment – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan describes how the missionaries bring about conversions through love, and he exhorts...
The Parable of the Prodigal Son – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan talks about the Father's mercy and also the sins of the older brother in the parabl...
God the Father – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains how God the Father is our Provider, Abba, Tester, Educator, and Ruler - Pr...
What does Jesus Really Mean? – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains how we should understand Jesus when he tells us to cut off our hand or plu...
Homily on Being Catholic – Fr. Jim Costigan
Fr. Jim Costigan explains how the Church grows and what it means to be a Catholic - Preached in the...
Homily – Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Jim Costigan
Twenty-Second Sunday Year A - Fr. Jim Costigan, C.P.M., August 28, 2011....
Homily – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Jim Costigan
Seventeenth Sunday Year A - Fr. Jim Costigan, C.P.M., July 24, 2011....
Baptism of the Lord: The Father’s Voice – Fr. Jim Costigan
Homily on the Baptism of the Lord: The Father's Voice - Fr. Jim Costigan, C.P.M., January 11, 2009...