Apr 7, 2022 | Homily
“‘The ass which was tied’, says St. Bonaventure, ‘denotes a sinner’. . . But, as Jesus Christ could not sit on the ass before she was loosed, so He cannot dwell in a soul bound with her own iniquities.” (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermon for Palm Sunday)...
Mar 31, 2022 | Homily
“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus...
Mar 24, 2022 | Homily
You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed You to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last (John 15:16a)
Mar 17, 2022 | Homily
“All the direction we really need regarding a devotion to St. Joseph is already to be found in the deposit of Faith safeguarded by holy Mother Church. Thus a true devotion to St. Joseph does not depend on any other revelations or apparitions as we shall see.” (Dominic...
Mar 9, 2022 | Homily
“Yet the question of warfare is a moral question and the immensity of the problems inherent in modern warfare does not excuse us from exercising moral criteria in evaluating those problems. We cannot leave judgment about such matters to soldiers and leaders alone,...
Mar 2, 2022 | Homily
“There are several typical ways in which people think about war: First, all warfare is wrong. This position finds simply no justification, at any time or in any circumstance, for opposing another human being to the extent of taking that human beings’ life, even in...
