Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. The goal of the Christian is life with God. The saints have reached this goal and spur us on. They pray for us on our way Home. Mass Readings from [...]
Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Christian Faith will never be relevant if it remains at the level of private, personal belief and does not transform our lives. Faith is [...]
Are you stuck in the trap where you have to do enough, so that you have enough, in order to be enough? If faith merely comes down to presenting God with our resume, then we are not faithful…we [...]
Every great story needs a beginning. But it needs more than just a beginning. A great story requires tension, obstacles, and patient perseverance. When we give God our “yes”, even when we don’t [...]
Faith is first of all a response. It is the response to an encounter with God. In a completely free way, God reveals Himself. Intellectual faith responds with “I believe you”. Living faith [...]
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. It’s not that we don’t have enough gifts, it’s that we waste a lot of them. Once we realize that we have gifts and that [...]
Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. As Catholics, we believe that people matter. The world has been changed by Catholic Christians who did more than just believe this truth; [...]
An interruption is anything that takes our attention away from one’s primary task. But what if you don’t know your primary task? Or what if you aren’t living for your primary task? Are there some [...]
What happens when our plan encounters God’s plan? No one likes interruptions, but they are a part of life. God is the Great Interrupter. Because we all know this, we can find ourselves doing all [...]
The conditions for being a disciple of Jesus can be incredibly challenging. But they are not complicated. The conditions for discipleship all come down to one question: does Jesus have permission [...]