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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 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Too often, when we encounter our own brokenness and woundedness, we either pretend it isn’t there or we just want it to be taken away. But [...]

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Many of us make plans. And many of those plans don’t end up working out the way that we had expected. Fortunately, God calls us to be [...]

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 Fifth Sunday of Easter. We find ourselves always moving and never done. We have so many options that we experience decision paralysis and subsequent decision dissatisfaction. But [...]

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. To be included is an incredible gift. To be inclusive is powerful. It means more than being “welcome”, it means being radically open and desperately [...]

Homily from Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion. Peter told Jesus that he would die for Him. And he meant it. He just wasn’t ready at the right time. Mass Readings from April 2, 2021: Isaiah [...]

Homily from the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Everything in the Bible leads to the moment of the Last Supper…and leads to every time we are at the Mass. Mass Readings from April 1, [...]

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. What good is it to have a heart that can be hurt by this world? Many choose to numb themselves rather than feel the pain of life. But becoming numb leaves us [...]

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 [...]