Nov 7, 2024 | Homily
“Does my reception of the Eucharist, like intercessory prayer, help those I love as well as myself?” (Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology, p.283) Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2024
Oct 30, 2024 | Homily
“He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead...
Oct 22, 2024 | Homily
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of...
Oct 16, 2024 | Homily
“But in order to perceive the true answer to the ‘why’ of suffering, we must look to the revelation of divine love, the ultimate source of the meaning of everything that exists.” (Apostolic Letter of John Paul II, On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, p.17)...
Oct 9, 2024 | Homily
“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.” (C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain) Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time...
Oct 3, 2024 | Homily
“Does God hear the prayers of sinners?” My best possible answer: “Yes and No.” Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2024
