Homilies

May 25, 2024

Baccalaureate Homily: Artists and Saints

I have a thing for artists—poets, painters, people like that.
May 19, 2024

Pentecost Homily: Waiting on the Holy Spirit

I’m sure I’ve told this story before, about an old priest from Cilicia in southern Anatolia. It was centuries ago.
May 12, 2024

Ascension Homily: Tears, Hugs, and Talk of Heaven

A mother was here earlier today. I stood with her, there in front of the altar.
April 27, 2024

Homily: What Bearing Fruit Really Means

We must be quite careful how we interpret these words of Jesus. John’s gospel is in every syllable a mystical text, and so one must take care not to read these words superficially or to misread them entirely.
April 21, 2024

Homily: The World’s Noise and the Voice of the Good Shepherd

You’ve often heard me say how our experience of Christianity, of the Church, is so very different from the Church of the past, from the Christianities of long ago.
April 14, 2024

Homily: Repenting of Ignorance

It was a strange and gutsy thing to say, dangerous to interpret: what Peter said.