September 5, 2021

Homily: What Makes Hope Real

He was an unlikely president, a playwright and political dissident: Václav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, just after the fall of Communism.
August 28, 2021

Homily: Don’t Lose Hope In Anything

It’s an image which has always haunted me, the first image of John Bunyan’s classic work, The Pilgrim’s Progress; haunting, as I said, but also strangely comforting.
July 18, 2021

Homily: To The Desert

“Before he begins to preach,” St. Augustine taught the would-be preacher, “he should raise his thirsty soul to God in order that he may give forth what he shall drink, or pour out what shall fill him.”[1]
July 3, 2021

Homily: The Sin of Those Who Know Him

I’ve told this story before, about a monk named Pachomius, one of the early fathers of monasticism.
June 27, 2021

Homily: The Great Tradition

It’s the great tradition.
May 23, 2021

Homily: Stranger Saints

It was a religious procession ready for war.