08/29/21 Living in Later?
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Often we avoid doing what is essential by filling our lives with many things that are optional. Mass Readings from August 29, 2021: [...]
08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me
Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. The temptation to create a God in our own image and have a church in our own image is strong. But God has revealed Himself to us, which means [...]
08/15/21 Consumer Catholic: The Body
Homily from the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Assumption of Mary reveals many things. One of the things it reveals is that our destiny is to be reunited with our [...]
08/08/21 Consumer Catholic: Farther to Go
Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The worst days of our life often com after the best days of our life. But even in those “worst days”, you are not done yet. God has [...]
Aren’t the bishops politicizing the Eucharist?
Q: I am troubled by news that the bishops of the United States might ban politicians who are openly pro-abortion from receiving Holy Communion. Isn’t this politicizing the Holy Sacrament of the [...]
08/01/21 Consumer Catholic: Choose God.
Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The apostles asked the question, “What good are these for so many?” Yet, Jesus invited them to give what they had and to trust Him [...]