Homilies

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Our lives will magnify (or highlight) something. Will they be so full of nice things that they will miss the most excellent things? Or will [...]

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and somebody needs to pay it. Mass Readings [...]

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. We all have experienced the temptation to see someone who has failed or someone who has hurt us as a non-person. But taking responsibility [...]

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world. Mass Readings from August 30, 2020: Jeremiah [...]

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. We can often confuse influence with importance; authority with power. But the Church has been given the very influence and authority of Jesus [...]

Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What kind of faith do you want? Faith that makes a difference because it is lived out is the only kind of faith that matters. Mass Readings from [...]

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Distraction is anything that takes our focus away from where it needs to be. Mass Readings from August 9, 2020: 1 Kings 19:9, 11-13 Psalm [...]

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. All of us have gifts in our lives and all of us have real struggles in our lives. What weight do we give our blessings and what weight do we [...]

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Founding Fathers gave the world a republic that necessitated a people who were virtuous, moral, and religious. Mass Readings from July 5, [...]

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every good thing in our lives comes from Jesus. Since He is the source of everything, He must be more important than anything. Mass Readings [...]