March 28, 2024

Holy Thursday Homily: The Simple Beautiful Thing

He’s one of my new favorite saints.
March 24, 2024

Homily: Only Jesus Christ

I can’t help but to keep coming back to what Saint Paul said to the Corinthians, what he wrote to them.
March 3, 2024

Homily: The Cathedral Provokes a Contemptuous World

“[T]he cathedral provokes a contemptuous world.”[1] That’s a line from a little poem by Rilke; it’s something Rodin had said. Rilke, the poet, for a time worked for Rodin, the sculptor, until they had a falling out as artists often do.
February 18, 2024

Homily: The First Lesson of Lent

For Saint Augustine, that great doctor of the Church and light of theology and civilization, his journey to the faith, his conversion to Christianity, his path to baptism was very painful.
January 28, 2024

Homily: What to Preach When you Can’t Think of What to Preach

Lacking much rhetorical invention this week, I thought I’d pull back the curtain in his homily and make it more of a “how-to,” or a homily about a homily or something like that. That is, I thought it interesting (at least for me) to share with you how I go about thinking up and writing a […]
December 23, 2023

Homily: The Last Lesson of Advent is to Focus

Advent, as we live it out today, does I think suffer from mixed messaging.