07/24/22 Teach Us How
Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The disciples did not merely want Jesus to help them have a “better spiritual life” or a deeper prayer life; they wanted to pray [...]
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 [...]
12/13/20 “I Am Not”
Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. We all have the temptation to pretend to be someone or something other than we are. To pass ourselves off as someone else…to be an imposter. We do this [...]
12/08/19 The Gift That Changes Everything
Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. The Prophet says that the great gift of the Spirit is the fear of the Lord. But what is it? Mass Readings from December 8, 2019: Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm [...]
11/03/19 CompariSIN: Infinitely Preferred
Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. When someone else being honored or loved more than we are meets our insecurity, we are tempted to tell stories…about them and about [...]
10/27/19 CompariSIN: The Way of Comparison
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Comparison is the desire to be “more” than another. At the heart of that desire is fear. Vulnerability breaks through that fear. Mass Readings [...]
09/01/19 Oh, Vanity
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is easy to think of vanity as nothing more than being conceited or overly concerned about one’s appearance. But the vice of vanity comes [...]
03/31/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Let Go…and Come Inside
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. While all of us struggle with different sins and temptations, we all ultimately have the same enemy: pride. Pride is a chameleon and can disguise itself in [...]