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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 Fifth Sunday of Easter. There are a few things that we ought to never be surprised by. One of them is suffering. God does not abandon us in our suffering, he leads us through [...]

Homily from the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. On the cross, Jesus’ life ends with the same perspective He has had from the beginning: He trusts His Father. Mass Readings from April 14, [...]

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. In order to truly grow in love, there needs to be the willingness to make a commitment. And there needs to be the ability to keep a commitment. Mass [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are times when we do everything God has asked us to do…and we still find ourselves in the midst of a storm. In those moments, we are called [...]