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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 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus makes it very clear that our call is to make our pursuit of Heaven exactly that: a pursuit. He is personal and practical when He tells [...]

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are certain things, certain failures, embarrassments, and shames, that could define our lives. There are certain events that could define our [...]

Homily from The Baptism of the Lord. Why was Jesus baptized? Not because He needed it, but because we need it. We need baptism to be saved, to be children of God, and to be in a new and real [...]

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. Too often, we want to love the way we have been created to love. But we find ourselves incapable of loving this way. Not because we aren’t willing or [...]

Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. The end of the year offers us the chance to recognize the little lords and tingy tyrants in our lives; those things we [...]

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. When we are in the middle of a journey…or the middle of life…we will encounter obstacles. In that encounter with obstacles, we [...]

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-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There is one true goal in life: to be a saint. Many of us believe this, but is there a path? Without a plan, we will certainly fail to hit [...]

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and somebody needs to pay it. Mass Readings [...]