7/28/24 Give and Gather
Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Give the first fruits and gather the fragments. We are given two commands in this weekend’s readings: to give the first fruits and [...]
7/21/24 Rest a While
Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. A person cannot be excellent without rest. Human beings are made in God’s image. We are also made for love, for labor, and for leisure. [...]
7/14/24 Borrowed Time
Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Does God have permission to say “I want it back?” We are all living on borrowed time. And borrowed gifts…and borrowed [...]
7/07/24 A Thorn in the Side
Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God can be glorified through our wounds, not merely in spite of them. We all experience brokenness. We all experience God’s love through [...]
6/30/24 Raincoats and Umbrellas
Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Sacraments are God’s presence and power…do we let them change us? We continually come into contact with the living God in the [...]