Playlist: Winter 2024 / 2025

Additional Winter 2024 / 2-25 homilies.

  • 3/23/2025 The Place of the Way: The Valley

    Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent. We all want peak moments, but growth happens in the Valley. Why do we walk through valleys? What good is life in the valley? Is it only a negative? Is it always a punishment from God? Or could the valley be necessary? Mass Readings from March 23, 2025: [...]

  • 3/16/2025 The Place of the Way: The Crossroads

    Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. A big life is a series of small crossroads. Life happens at the crossroads. Life is also a series of small crossroads that might seem insignificant, but add up to a life of beauty and meaning...or a life potentially wasted. Mass Readings from March 16, 2025: Genesis 15:5-12, [...]

  • 3/09/2025 The Place of the Way: The Desert

    Homily from the First Sunday of Lent. The only way out is through. As we enter into the desert, the desert takes away the things we tend to trust in...the things we use as comforts and crutches...and we are led through the "training place" to the place of being able to live like Christ. Mass [...]

  • 3/02/2025 The Place of the Way: What Reveals and What Trains

    Homily from the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.  Silence reveals our hearts and silence trains our hearts. As we enter into the place of training, we realize that there are certain things that reveal the condition of our hearts...trial, tribulation, speech, and silence. But we need to consciously enter into these if we are going [...]

  • 2/23/2025 A New Commandment

    Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.  Love those who deserve it. And those who don’t. Jesus gives us a commandment that existed from the beginning: we are to love those who deserve it. This is justice. Jesus goes on to teach us and even greater love: mercy. Mass Readings from February 23, 2025: [...]

  • 2/16/2025 How Do I Know if I Have Faith?

    Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.  We live in this life, but we live for the next life. Jesus turns our fears and our hopes upside down... because through the Resurrection, Jesus has turned the world upside down. Mass Readings from February 16, 2025: Jeremiah 17: 5-8 Psalms 1: 1-4 & 6 1 [...]

  • 1/12/2025 Claimed

    Homily from the Baptism of the Lord.  You've been claimed at the lowest point. The Baptism of the Lord is a mystery. The mystery of how Christ comes into contact with the water... and it doe snot change Him; He changes it. This is the pattern from this moment on: Christ comes into contact with [...]

  • 1/5/2025 Optimism

    Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord.  There is something powerful about optimism. Optimistic people are more likely to be risk takers and more likely to have a positive view of life. But optimistic people also have to have something stronger than mere “wishful thinking” to lean on when their own strength runs out. Mass [...]

  • 1/1/2025 The Power of “Yes”

    Homily from the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. When we know God’s will, we must respond with “yes.” There are truly horrible and troubling things that can happen in each one of our lives. And yet, at every moment, we have the opportunity to respond in faith and love. Our [...]

  • 12/29/24 A Hidden Life

    Homily from the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Make it your ambition to live a quiet life. In a world where so many people live their lives “on display,” the Holy Family shows us what it is to live a quiet (and meaningful) life. Mass Readings from December 29, 2024: [...]