04/26/20 Insecure: Not Home
Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter. Our lives can be spent wishing for certain outcomes. But a security built on specific outcomes is a conditional and temporary security. We need true hope [...]
Insecure: The Source of Security
Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday. We live in an insecure world, but God’s mercy is stable. Mass Readings from April 19, 2020: Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31
04/11/20 Witnesses
Homily from Holy Saturday, the Easter Vigil. Christianity is an historical religion that is not based on feelings, philosophies, or myths. It is based on a fact: the fact of the resurrection of [...]
04/10/20 Prepared But Not Ready
Homily from Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion. Jesus prepared His disciples for His Passion. But they were not ready, because they had not factored in their own weakness. But Jesus had [...]
04/09/20 Re-Claimed and Re-Named
Homily from Holy Thursday, the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Our name is our identity. Christ has covered our given name with His blood. And now we have a new name: we are “His.” Mass [...]
04/05/20 Un-Done: Unfinished
Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. Jesus accomplished the Father’s will in His passion, death, and resurrection. His mission of salvation is “finished.” And yet, Christ’s Body [...]