Homilies

“What is truth?” These are the words of Pilate that follow Jesus’ statement that is the last line of our Gospel passage: “For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth hears my voice.” It’s hard to determine the tone […]

I want to tell you a bit about a great family that I am privileged to call friends. I won’t use their last name because I want to respect their privacy. The parents of this family, Mary Beth and Ryan are focused on living as intentional disciples of Jesus. For them, this means giving all

I have birthdays on my mind. As some of you know, I recently celebrated my 35th birthday. Back when I was a kid, one of the special parts of birthday celebrations was the birthday sign. My mom made the sign by hand for years and then she upgraded to making them using the greeting card

There’s a little prayer that we can use for almost any occasion, or even for no occasion, called “The Jesus Prayer.” It’s easy to remember, it’s short, and it tells the truth. It goes like this: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” According to numerous Church Fathers, the Jesus Prayer is

When I was in college, I lived in a Catholic fraternity-style house with about ten other guys and we had a great time together. Some of my favorite memories from those days are of being in the kitchen with my household brothers cleaning up after meals. Even though we had a working dishwasher, we would

This weekend my mind is on the movie Ice Age as we ponder the readings together. The beginning of all the Ice Age series of movies has always cracked me up. If you haven’t seen them, they all start with a funny scene starring a character called Scrat. Scrat is a little, prehistoric squirrel-like animal

Do you remember the movie, Signs? I have always been a big fan of science fiction movies and one of my favorite directors in the early 2000s was M. Night Shyamalan. I had seen and enjoyed both The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, so I was excited when I saw that Shyamalan was trying his hand

Once there was a rich businessman who had a passion for racing cars. He went out and sought the best of the best to build his collection of custom race cars. He had experts in aerodynamics design the bodies of the vehicles to glide along the race track. The finest engineers tuned the engines of

If you are familiar with filming using video cameras, you know that having the right amount of light is crucial. Our eyes are very sensitive to light, so they don’t require as much brightness to be able to see. However, film cameras are a much different animal. If you’ve ever seen the behind the scene