Mar 2, 2023 | Homily
“Under your mercy we take refuge, O Mother of God. Do not reject our supplications in necessity, but deliver us from danger, [O you] alone pure and alone blessed.” (Translation of prayer entitled Sub Tuum Praesidium, from the Rylands Library papyrus circa 259 AD.)...
Feb 23, 2023 | Homily
“From this scene on the pinnacle of the Temple . . . we can look out and see the cross.” (Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI) The First Sunday of Lent
Feb 15, 2023 | Homily
“But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house; and they called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.’ Lot went out...
Feb 7, 2023 | Homily
“Question 129 – Do not men differ in many things? Answer – Men differ in many things, such as learning, wealth, power, etc.; but these things belong to the world and not man’s nature. He came into this world without them, and he will leave it without them. Only the...
Feb 1, 2023 | Homily
“The development, desire by us, of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is an indication of the Church’s genuine piety. This devotion fits – as we have indicated above – into the only worship that is rightly called ‘Christian,’ because it takes its origin and...
Jan 26, 2023 | Homily
“Christ Jesus embodies, incarnates, is the Beatitudes… When he preaches the Beatitudes, Christ is providing an intimate commentary on who he himself is, and the disciples are to be fortunate and blessed in this precise way in which the Son of God is...
