Homilies

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. As one pastor noted, “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. And if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” [...]

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Joy is the abiding sense of well-being. It is a feeling, but it is also a choice. But we do not choose joy itself. We must choose the source [...]

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The essence of a eulogy virtue is character. Not merely who people think you are, but who you actually are. A person of character does what [...]

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Book of Sirach makes the claim that the humble person is loved more than a giver of gifts. But what does it mean to be humble? Does it [...]

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus makes it very clear that our call is to make our pursuit of Heaven exactly that: a pursuit. He is personal and practical when He tells [...]

Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every one of us is in the middle of the race of our lives. God has called us and brought us here, even when there is no victory in sight and [...]

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The roots in our lives can be so beneficial. Family and friends, home and homeland. But roots can also become traps. Good things can become [...]

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are preoccupied with “done”, but we are simultaneously addicted to asking “then what?”. The wisdom of Ecclesiastes [...]

Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The disciples did not merely want Jesus to help them have a “better spiritual life” or a deeper prayer life; they wanted to pray [...]

Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We have a problem. And the problem is that we can do the right thing in the wrong way. We can choose to serve…while feeding our worry and [...]