November 29, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. One way to think about Advent—so said St. Bernard of Clairvaux once—is to think about what it’s like to drown.
November 21, 2020
I’ve told his story before, but I’ll tell it again, of the Roman soldier, Marinus, who was martyred in Palestine in the middle of the third century. He was a good soldier, from a family of soldiers; he was due to be promoted, made a centurion of the Tenth Legion of the Strait, the famous legion […]
November 15, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. Our great state of Texas is, of course, home to the best music in the nation—the best country music, even the best gospel and blues. I’ll honor no objections from any of our visitors from Mississippi, Alabama, or Tennessee. While preaching, I limit myself strictly to facts, you see, […]
November 1, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. It was on Mount Sinai long ago that God said, “I shall make you a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.”[1]
October 25, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. It was the prophet Jeremiah that was doomed to preach the doom of the kingdom of Judah, a calling to which he was faithful all his bitter life. Preaching to a people too proud of their heritage, too presumptuous and assured of the blessing of God upon them, they […]
October 18, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. The idea that we should care for the sick and the suffering is, of course, relatively new in the history of humanity.