homily
March 16, 2020
It was inevitable, a question of when and not if.
February 28, 2020
Maybe there just aren’t saints anymore. Maybe there never were.
February 21, 2020
Think with me, please, on the organ and the organist. There’s something to learn.
January 17, 2020
What if, saving our bodies, we destroy our souls?
December 20, 2019
Can we imagine enemies as friends, or an addict who’s finally free? What about your husband, your wife, your own hard heart? Can you imagine these surprisingly new? What about us? Can we imagine ourselves beautifully better, different? Can we conceive it? Is it even sensible to try, to ask these questions of hope?
November 2, 2019
We’ve been doing this since the very beginning, honoring and praying for the dead.
November 10, 2019
You wouldn’t think it, necessarily, but early Christian martyrs were often funny. They weren’t pious wimps singing hymns while being led away to torture and death. More often than not they were sardonic, sarcastic, and smart-mouthed.
November 17, 2019
To listen to this homily click here. I have always been haunted by the fact that Jesus didn’t really win the argument, that he convinced only very few. What I mean is that all along and throughout his ministry, although at times he attracted countless many, his disciples, when all was said and done, were few.
November 24, 2019
To listen to this homily click here. The death of the king marked year one in the French Revolution, the beginning of the republic and a new era—an era, of course, of freedom.
December 1, 2019
To listen to this homily click here. It was only at the end, in jail awaiting execution, that it became clear to him, the whiskey priest in Graham Greene’s famous novel, The Power and the Glory.
December 8, 2019
To listen to this homily click here. Yves Congar, the great twentieth century Dominican theologian, in a book he wrote a little more than a decade before the Second Vatican Council (a book which by the way influenced the future Pope John XXIII), said in rather a matter of fact way, but mystically nonetheless, that “Prophecy […]