Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent, Year B Beginning a new liturgical year lets us take a fresh look at the great mysteries we celebrate. Once again, we get to relive the birth of Jesus and his being revealed to the magi. Once again, we will commemorate his suffering...

Homily for the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A Our Gospel today is one of the more puzzling parables of our Lord. A surface reading can make it seem like Jesus is plugging venture capitalism. Indeed, John Howard famously referred to this as the...

Homily for the 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A Jesus frequently used a wedding feast as a symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven.  It is a wonderfully joyful image of the life that awaits the faithful, although it is also tempered by the fact that some who are invited...

Homily for the Solemnity of All Saints As some of you know, the year before I entered seminary I undertook a travelling year of discernment, during which time I strove to figure out just what it was the Lord was wanting me to do with my life.  And one of the more...

Homily for the Conferral of Confirmation My young friends, having already received the sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Eucharist, today’s Confirmation will complete your Christian initiation.  From today onwards, you will have everything you need to be Jesus’ hands...

Homily for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A Poor Jesus found himself in quite the pickle in our Gospel passage today.  The Jewish teachers maintained that tribute should not be paid to a foreign occupying power, so to say “yes” on the question of taxation...