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.
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Judging Others
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The Sacrament of Baptism – Fr. Jim Costigan

The Immaculate Conception – Fr. Jim Costigan

Render to God the Things that are God’s – Fr. Jim Costigan

The Problem of Evil – Fr. Jim Costigan

How to Know God – Fr. Jim Costigan

The Disciples with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus – Fr. Jim Costigan

The Presentation of the Lord and the Purification of Mary – Fr. Jim Costigan

Thirsting for God – Fr. Jim Costigan

What Heaven is Like – Fr. Jim Costigan

Compuction, Contrition, Conversion, and Confession – Fr. Jim Costigan

Fake It Until You Make It – Fr. Jim Costigan

Corpus Christi – Fr. Jim Costigan

The New Commandment – Fr. Jim Costigan

The Parable of the Prodigal Son – Fr. Jim Costigan

God the Father – Fr. Jim Costigan

What does Jesus Really Mean? – Fr. Jim Costigan

Homily on Being Catholic – Fr. Jim Costigan

Homily – Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Jim Costigan

Homily – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Jim Costigan

Baptism of the Lord: The Father’s Voice – Fr. Jim Costigan
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