Category: Weekday Homilies

Homily, 7-3-23; Homily for the Feast of St. Thomas: As a dad and a grandpa, I have spent many hours on the floor building castles and towers out of wooden blocks. The goal is often to try to build a tower as tall as possible. And so we always start with the largest blocks—ours were… Continue reading Cornerstone, not Capstone

Homily, 6-19-23; Monday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time: “Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” Many years ago, Jenni and I took a trip down to the outskirts of Mexico City to visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Some friends had recommended a small… Continue reading Now is an Acceptable Time

Homily, 6-12-23; Monday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time: Encourage; we hear the word encourage or encouragement ten times in our short reading from St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. With this repetitiveness, I find the passage a little bit confusing, especially with our understanding of the word encourage. In the Latin text… Continue reading Comfort & Encouragement

Homily, 6-5-23; Monday of the 9th Week In Ordinary Time (St. Boniface): Today is the feast day of St. Boniface. I remember it because our youngest daughter was married on this date, thirteen years ago, and so they have a special connection to him.. But I never knew much about St. Boniface, so I looked… Continue reading St. Boniface & the Christmas Tree

Homily, 5-22-23; Monday of the 7th Week of Easter: In the Book of Ecclesiastes we hear: “There is an appointed time for everything,   A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them” (Ec. 3:1,5). Scatter, I did a word search on the word and found that this word is used 130 times in… Continue reading Will We Scatter?

Homily, 5-15-23; Monday of the 6th Week of Easter: We just heard in our gospel passage: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify.” We are called to go out in the world… Continue reading Christian Persecution

Homily, 5-8-23; Monday of the 5th Week in Easter: Jesus came to earth and lived among us. After He suffered, died, and rose again, He returned to the Father. And now we await His second coming in glory to take us to be with Him and the Father in Heaven. But today we hear about… Continue reading Jesus – Version 1.5

Homily, 4-24-23; Monday of the 3rd Week of Easter: As I mentioned last week, Jesus told the disciples: “When they lead you away and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say. But say whatever will be given to you at that hour. For it will not be you who… Continue reading St. Stephen’s Example

Homily, 4-17-23; Monday of the 2nd Week of Easter: The Apostles cite the words of the 2nd Psalm, which was also our responsorial psalm this morning, and explain how it applies to the persecution of Jesus: “Why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples entertain folly? The kings of the earth took their stand and… Continue reading Holy Boldness

Homily, 4-10-23; Monday in the Octave of Easter: At the feast of Pentecost, Peter addresses the Jews with some pretty harsh words: “Jesus the Nazorean was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This man, delivered up… Continue reading Days of Mercy