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Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. There are a few things that we ought to never be surprised by. One of them is suffering. God does not abandon us in our suffering, he leads us through [...]

Homily from the Sunday of Divine Mercy. The fact of the Resurrection of Jesus has introduced something new into this world of misery. The Cross and Resurrection introduced the possibility of [...]

Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We have become more comfortable with the “completed” past than the unknown future. Rather than desiring to launch into the challenge of [...]

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 [...]

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. “The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.” We do not merely desire, we have inordinate desire driven by fear. We do not [...]

Homily from the Mass of the Ascension of the Lord. Jesus doesn’t call us to simply be “nice people.” Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit so that we can be more than we are [...]

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. We can choose joy only insofar as we can choose the source of our joy. Joy comes as a consequence; it is a fruit. And the depth and permanence of our joy [...]

Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent. There is something that all of us discover about ourselves the moment we have a minute of self-reflection: we have the capacity to do the things we hate. In [...]

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. One of the many things that life teaches us is that life is always changing. To grow is to change. There are times that are good and there are times [...]

Homily from the Mass of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. It can be so easy for parents to feel powerless when it comes to passing on the faith to their families. But there are four [...]