11/15/15 Ordinary Time: Grow and Guard
Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. If God has a vision for life, we have to grow that vision. We have to cultivate it and use it. But we also have to care for God’s vision for [...]
11/08/15 Ordinary Time: The Last Ten Percent
Our lives are marked by sacrifice. In many ways, Christian sacrifice is taking ordinary things and making them sacred by offering them to God. But if we only offer God our surplus, then the [...]
11/01/15 Ordinary Time: Ask. Offer. Accept.
Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. Winning in the Christian life is also called “being a saint”. Winning is possible. Being a saint means willing what God wills. It means allowing every [...]
10/25/15 Ordinary Time: Do It Now
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time. You have everything you need to be the saint God created you to be. You have all of the potential you need. There is one difference between the [...]
10/18/15 Ordinary Time: No Wonder
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time. We have an entitlement problem. In order to escape that problem, in order to live lives out of the ordinary, we need to rediscover wonder. [...]
10/11/15 Ordinary Time: Drifting
Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time. You need a vision, a plan, and will to live the kind of life that God wants for you. Mass Readings from October 11, 2015: Wisdom 7:7-11 [...]