Homilies

December 27, 2020

Homily: What Makes Families Holy?

“I gave thanks to the Lord that I was separated from my father,” she said. “I was comforted by his absence.”
December 24, 2020

Homily: God’s Sympathy

It is difficult, I know, at times, to make sense of it.
December 13, 2020

Homily: Joy is Always a Gift

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

Homily: Are You Coachable?

As many of you know, I grew up around high school athletics.
November 29, 2020

Homily: Drowning at Advent

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

Homily: The Limits of Loyalty

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 […]