Homilies
July 3, 2021
I’ve told this story before, about a monk named Pachomius, one of the early fathers of monasticism.
July 18, 2021
“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]
August 28, 2021
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.
September 5, 2021
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.
September 12, 2021
I’m not sure how many of us are on board with what Jesus just said here, unsure how many understand him or like what he said. I don’t really know where I stand either; I think I understand what he’s saying, it’s just I don’t think I’ve fully accepted it. Really, once you strip away all […]
September 18, 2021
My first instinct is to blame lawyers, but I know it’s not all their fault.