10/24/21 Learning to Lose: Get Up
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is one thing to lose. It is another thing when those losses begin to stack up and we get to the point where we haven’t just [...]
10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness?
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The world sees life as being about winning. And to win is to gain power and influence. If a person wins they get power, and with that power [...]
10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On To You
Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we prefer over and over (and anything that we defer putting down over and over) can end up [...]
10/03/21 Holding On: The Power of a Promise
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are not yet who we are called to be. Sometimes, in order to become the person we are called to be, we need to stop holding on to what is [...]
09/26/21 Holding On: Patient and Ruthless
Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are things that we need to stop holding on to if we are going to allow Christ to change our lives. Often, we know exactly what those [...]
09/19/21 Desperate
Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. “The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.” We do not merely desire, we have inordinate desire driven by fear. We do not [...]
09/12/21 Not Mine
Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is wise to take responsibility for one’s own time, resources, and family. And yet, we must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted [...]
09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved.
Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus heals the man who was deaf and mute. In doing this, He was destroying something in the man’s life…his identity. Jesus has to take away [...]
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 [...]