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Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are so many things that we know that we ought to do. There are even things that we know that we want to do. And yet…we just [...]

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. Too often, we do not love well because we do not discern what is worth loving; we don’t pay attention to the value of things. Because of this, our [...]

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. Saint Peter reveals that the Day is coming when The Story will have been written. On that day, everything will be revealed and we will know God’s hidden [...]

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 [...]

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every good thing in our lives comes from Jesus. Since He is the source of everything, He must be more important than anything. Mass Readings [...]

Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent. We live in a world that has come undone with hearts and relationships that have come undone. Jesus comes to that wound to undo what has been undone. Mass [...]

Homily from the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We often are a mystery…even to ourselves. But Christians must come to a place of self-knowledge so we can present our true self to the true [...]

Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus calls us to love our enemies. But how can we do that when we don’t even love the people we like? When we often don’t effectively love [...]

Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Hope is not a “soft” virtue. It is a fighting virtue. Hope is what enables us to live in the present with strength and conviction. It takes hope to [...]

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are only two kinds of relationships that get to a point where it is “all…or nothing”: Romantic relationships and our [...]