Homilies

Disappointment with prayer: How to keep praying despite discouraging results

[Homily for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C, 2025]

Oct 19 •

Leprosy and nativist prejudice in the Bible

[how healings from leprosy are linked to critiques of prejudice against foreigners]

Oct 13 •

Cockroaches, Charlie Kirk, guns, and the Holy Cross

[Homily for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 2025]

Sep 14 •

The narrow gate and immigration

[Homily for the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, 2025 – Year C, 2025]

Aug 24 •

How to pray in two lessons: On the road with Jesus

[Homily for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C, 2025]

Jul 27 •

Theory of everything: How Trinitarian love explains the whole Christian faith

[Homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, 2025]

Jun 15 •

Mercy, hope, and Pope Francis

[Homily for Divine Mercy Sunday 2025 following Pope Francis’s death]

Apr 27 •

Reflection on the Paschal Triduum

[on the holiest days of the Catholic liturgical year]

Apr 17 •

Where time stands still: The gift of hope

[Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent, 2025 – Year C, 2025]

Mar 16 •

Religious and family trauma; forgiveness and its counterfeits

[Homily for Tuesday of the First Week of Lent – Year C, 2025]

Mar 12 •

True love of neighbor demands radical conversion

[Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C, 2025]

Feb 23 •

Wine runs out, wildfires run amok: Living in hope

[Homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C, 2025]

Jan 19 •

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