10/30/16 Faith Works: The Fruit of Faith
Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Christian Faith will never be relevant if it remains at the level of private, personal belief and does not transform our lives. Faith is [...]
10/23/16 Faith Works: Resume Faith
Are you stuck in the trap where you have to do enough, so that you have enough, in order to be enough? If faith merely comes down to presenting God with our resume, then we are not faithful…we [...]
10/16/16 Faith Works: The Forge of Faith
Every great story needs a beginning. But it needs more than just a beginning. A great story requires tension, obstacles, and patient perseverance. When we give God our “yes”, even when we don’t [...]
10/09/16 Faith Works: Beginning Faith
Faith is first of all a response. It is the response to an encounter with God. In a completely free way, God reveals Himself. Intellectual faith responds with “I believe you”. Living faith [...]
10/02/16 Interrupted: Divine Appointments
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. It’s not that we don’t have enough gifts, it’s that we waste a lot of them. Once we realize that we have gifts and that [...]