Homilies

Homily from Palm Sunday. “This is the whole secret: The gift that changes the relationship is the Cross. ‘I didn’t ask Him to do this for me.’ Here’s the Cross, and [...]

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. “Whenever we take a good thing and make it the ultimate thing, we enslave ourselves. And we have to obey the #1 commandment of every one of these false [...]

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. “The Sacrament of Confession is where the desire to be impressive goes to die. It is so good! The Sacrament of Confession is where the desire to be [...]

Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent. “When it comes down to it, I don’t like man-made religion anymore than you do. That’s why I’m Catholic: because we realize that Jesus [...]

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. “What is the idea of creating a Jesus of my own making, of my own choosing, of my own invention? …Basically, when it comes to all of the Greek [...]

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent. “You might be sitting here like ‘I want that, I want that grace, I want that Holy Spirit.’ Well here’s the reality: if you’ve [...]

Homily from Ash Wednesday. “What can I do this Lent so that in 40 days I have what I really want? Which is not just, ‘I made it without drinking pop!’ And not just, ‘I [...]

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. “After the Resurrection, Peter goes out on the feast of Pentecost into the same city that Jesus was crucified, in the same city that Jesus was [...]

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. “There’s nothing wrong with going to Old Country Buffet and saying, ‘I’ll have some of this, but I don’t want any of [...]

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. “We recognize that it’s been a month since we’ve seen each other, maybe even longer. And I imagine that in that time there has [...]