Resources & Articles

Unimaginable Joy? Easter Day Homily
Unimaginable Joy? Easter Day Homily
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Christ is risen! Nothing else matters. Which is why one of our bishops once said that, “Other people would not think this a time for festival. [But] far from being... Read more...
Imitating Death: Good Friday Homily
Imitating Death: Good Friday Homily
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What we offered Our Lord, and what He graciously took from us, was the consequence of the contagion of sin. We offered a body capable of death, a body incapable... Read more...
Loving to the End: Holy Thursday Homily
Loving to the End: Holy Thursday Homily
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To love someone to the end is to do whatever you must for their good, their well-being, their health, their safety, their care. It means sacrificing your ideas of what... Read more...
Tears of Repentance: Holy Wednesday Homily
Tears of Repentance: Holy Wednesday Homily
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When we see people suffer, when we contemplate the scale of misery and grief, it seems right to feel sorry for them: to pity their circumstances, and the trauma that... Read more...
Forsaking Our Lord: Holy Tuesday Homily
Forsaking Our Lord: Holy Tuesday Homily
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“They forsook him and fled.” That is by far the most devastating sentence in the story of Our Lord’s Passion. It means that He was left lonely, bereft of the... Read more...
The Aroma of Life: Holy Monday Homily
The Aroma of Life: Holy Monday Homily
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Like the perfume of the incense which clings to our clothing and to our hair, the sweet-smelling savor of the costly ointment from Mary filled the whole room. Certainly, that... Read more...
Tough But Not Unbearable: Palm Sunday Homily
Tough But Not Unbearable: Palm Sunday Homily
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This Holy Week is tough, but it is not unbearable. It is tough because we are not in our usual Holy Week routine: coming to the church, focused on Our... Read more...
Hiding Jesus? A Passion Sunday homily
Hiding Jesus? A Passion Sunday homily
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Our Lord Jesus seems to be hiding, especially during these perplexing days. It feels like He is not hearing our prayers or coming quickly to our aid. Rather He is... Read more...
Kindly Penance: A Homily for Lent IV
Kindly Penance: A Homily for Lent IV
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Several weeks ago when we followed Jesus out into the wilderness, we thought we knew where he was leading us. For we had followed this route many times before, year... Read more...
Incarnation & Disease
Incarnation & Disease
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Our present situation is part of why God became man. The primary reason, of course, is so that we might have communion with God, so that we might live in... Read more...
Sheltering-in-Place during Lent: A Homily
Sheltering-in-Place during Lent: A Homily
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I am sure it doesn’t feel like it, but sheltering ourselves in place can really help us—not  just physically, by avoiding or spreading the virus. Best of all, sheltering can... Read more...
Better At Prayer
Better At Prayer
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We can do better at prayer. Myself included. Perhaps the reason our prayers lag, or why we find it a chore, or why it just doesn’t seem exciting, is because... Read more...