Mar 12, 2025 | Homily
“Love is not loved!” (Jacapone da Todi [1230-1306] religious poet who became a Franciscan after his wife died.) Second Sunday of Lent 2025
Mar 6, 2025 | Homily
“It is fitting that it be recorded that the first Adam was cast out of Paradise into the desert, that you may observe how the second Adam returned from the desert to Paradise. . . .” (Saint Ambrose, Exposition of the Gospel of Luke) First Sunday of Lent...
Feb 27, 2025 | Homily
“In order to finish His work He sent us the Holy Ghost. This Divine Spirit, who is none other than the substantial love of the Father and the Son, was not satisfied with instilling grace into our souls together with the infused virtues, especially divine charity, but...
Feb 19, 2025 | Homily
“With what assurance does that person pray who harbors animosity toward someone who has offended him?” (Anonymous, Incomplete Work on Matthew, Homily 14) Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025
Feb 12, 2025 | Homily
“The soul transformed into Jesus can do the work of Jesus, which is to glorify the Father. Thus the divine Jesus leads souls to the Father, in whom all perfection is consummated, because all things find their happiness when they return to their beginning.” (Archbishop...
Feb 6, 2025 | Homily
“But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ‘Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.’” (Luke 5:8) Fifth Week of Ordinary Time 2025