homily

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 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.
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.
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 25, 2024

Baccalaureate Homily: Artists and Saints

I have a thing for artists—poets, painters, people like that.
June 2, 2024

Corpus Christi Homily: Mystics a Little

Jesus Christ, risen and ascended: by the gift of the Holy Spirit given at Pentecost, the gift of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit who is God—a Trinity—he comes to us today, our Lord, every day, as food, as silent food and drink. Into a world often too busy to notice, before hearts which […]