December 26, 2020
This Sunday is the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Appropriate just after Christmas Day, the Church asks us to contemplate the first Christian family, and to let the light of that Holy Family illumine our families.
December 13, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. To rejoice, to be joyful, is the apostolic and angelic command, and the message of this Advent. The news is “good” and “of great joy,” the angels declared to the shepherds, half asleep and perhaps imbibed.[1] “Rejoice,” says Paul, “always;” it’s an exhortation, a command.[2] The merriness of our […]
December 6, 2020
As many of you know, I grew up around high school athletics.