Homilies

The entire point of the spiritual life is to grow in love. One of the ways that we grow in love is to realize our part in the story. Another way we grow in love is to get into the story and watch [...]

Every relationship has to be purified. Every true and great love has to be purified. When God calls us into the desert, He is calling us to enter into deeper relationship and into greater love.

To find one’s self in the Presence of the true and living God is overwhelming. If we allow God to be the real, Personal, God who is in pursuit of us, we will find ourselves growing in Fear of the [...]

Prayer is all about a relationship. That makes it incredibly personal. But in order for prayer to be what it should be, we need two things. First, a conviction that God is present. Second, the [...]

So many people do not have a personal relationship with God simply because they falsely believe that prayer comes down to a “technique”. For all of the beautiful and complex prayers and ways to [...]

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. When Jesus steps into your boat, He may call you to leave your nets and follow Him. But He also might call you to stay with your nets and follow [...]

We can place so much emphasis on what kind of job we have or what kind of work we do that we lose sight of what it is that gives work dignity. Human work had dignity because of the fact that [...]

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. If work is about me, then it will always involve fruitless and pointless toil. But if work is about responding to a call outside or myself…if it is [...]