Homilies

My heart is filled with joy to be with all of you on this holy night when we celebrate that supper that our Lord celebrated with His Apostles on the night before He died. What a great blessing it is for us to come together tonight and recall the blessings that continue to flow from […]

At the end of the Last Supper, Jesus says to Peter, “Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail.”  But Peter cannot even allow for the possibility that he would ever let the Lord down. “Lord, I am prepared

Well, here we are, most of the way through Lent and at the end of our homily series, Healing Our Wounded Hearts. I promised at the beginning it wouldn’t be boring, and I hope you agree that it has not been!  Over the last four weeks, we have been spinning the diamond of the great

This weekend we continue our Lenten homily series on the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The title of this series is “Healing our Wounded Hearts.” Through these homilies, we are pondering the many ways Jesus heals our wounded hearts through the beautiful Sacrament of Reconciliation. Last week, Deacon Doug spoke of how this Sacrament helps draw us

Last week we heard that the homilies given during the Season of Lent this year would focus on the Sacrament of Reconciliation with the theme “Healing Our Wounded Hearts.”  Our hearts, and indeed our souls, are wounded by sin, and it is only through the mercy of God through the death, resurrection and ascension of

This Lent we will have a homily series on the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The title of this series is “Healing our Wounded Hearts,” because we will take the opportunity to focus on how this beautiful Sacrament Jesus has given the Church can heal our hearts that are wounded and broken by sin. Each Sacrament Jesus

I want to invite you to use your imagination for a second. Close your eyes and imagine that you are in a crowded train station. You look around and don’t see anybody that looks familiar. As a matter of fact, you don’t even remember how you got there or where you are going. The train

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor, would you be mine, could you be mine? I don’t know about any of you, but when I hear those lyrics, it immediately brings up good memories from my childhood. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was a show that I watched nearly every day

For the past week or so in the daily Mass Readings, the Church has been reading from the first Book of Kings, and we’ve been hearing about the rise of Solomon to the kingship of Israel.  Solomon was the son of King David, of whom God promised “I will raise up your offspring after you,

I recently had the privilege of watching on YouTube the testimony of a woman named Kaitlin who is converting from atheism to Catholicism. Her story touched me deeply, not only because I am so grateful she is joining our Catholic family, but also because her story reminded me how God moves in our lives and