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Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Joy is the abiding sense of well-being. It is a feeling, but it is also a choice. But we do not choose joy itself. We must choose the source [...]

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 [...]

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Many of us want to grow spiritually. But what does that really mean? What is it that we really want? What is the actual goal of life? Put in [...]

Homily from Pentecost Sunday. The Holy Spirit, poured out on the apostles (and the entire Church) at Pentecost would have gone to waste without the most important reality: the disciples made [...]

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. This central Last Word of Jesus from the Cross is possibly the most important. He not only expresses the depths to which He enters into the consequences of [...]

Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. We will all lose everything. We will lose everything…even to the point of our very lives. Rather than avoid death, we can practice [...]

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is one thing to lose. It is another thing when those losses begin to stack up and we get to the point where we haven’t just [...]

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 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is wise to take responsibility for one’s own time, resources, and family. And yet, we must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted [...]

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The apostles asked the question, “What good are these for so many?” Yet, Jesus invited them to give what they had and to trust Him [...]