11/21/21 All Over the Place
Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. The end of the year offers us the chance to recognize the little lords and tingy tyrants in our lives; those things we [...]
11/14/21 Always Forward. Never Back.
Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. When we are in the middle of a journey…or the middle of life…we will encounter obstacles. In that encounter with obstacles, we [...]
11/07/21 Learning to Lose: Practice Dying
Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. We will all lose everything. We will lose everything…even to the point of our very lives. Rather than avoid death, we can practice [...]
11/01/21 Your Feast Day
Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. The Solemnity of All Saints is the day the Church has given us to celebrate and honor what God has done in the lives of the countless people He has [...]
10/31/21 Learning to Lose: All is Lost
Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are called to love God with everything. It is easier to love when we are winning, but are we able to love when we’ve lost? What if [...]
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 [...]