As we gather today to honor past memories and look to the future, I can’t help but think of William Butler Yeats’ famous poem Among School Children which reads: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing,… Continue reading Villa Duchesne / City House Alumnae Mass 2016
Category: Homily
3rd Sunday of Easter Year C
Perhaps the most abused word in the English language is the word love. We claim that we love God, you love your spouse, you love your children, but we also claim to love our dog, we love chocolate and wouldn’t most of us say we love how beautiful the church… Continue reading 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C
Easter Sunday 2016
This morning we gather at the empty tomb to celebrate a historic truth; the truth that Christ “was dead and is alive again.”[1] This feast of Easter is revolutionary. Their have been many great thinkers, many founders of religions and many holy people in the course of human history, but… Continue reading Easter Sunday 2016
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
Today, as we gather at the hour when our Savior gave up His spirit, we recall that “the cross of Christ is not a theory, but a dreadful ordeal and a sign of love.”[1] We come to pay the highest honor to our Lord’s cross recognizing it as the means of our salvation… Continue reading Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
Palm Sunday 2016
St. Luke organizes his entire Gospel around Jesus pilgrimage to Jerusalem, reminding his reader that the whole goal of Jesus’ life on earth was to go to Jerusalem to suffer, die and rise from the dead so that you and I could be lead from the slavery of sin into… Continue reading Palm Sunday 2016
5th Sunday of Lent Year C
I think most of us would agree that one of the worst things we can experience in our lives is public embarrassment. There is something about having our faults drug into the light for everyone to see which seems to tear us up inside and yet that is precisely what… Continue reading 5th Sunday of Lent Year C
3rd Sunday of Lent Year C
This past weekend some of the men from our parish were away on an ACTS retreat. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go out for the morning to speak with them and answer some questions. As I listened to their questions it was clear that many of them had come to… Continue reading 3rd Sunday of Lent Year C
2nd Sunday of Lent Year C
In the summer of 2013, Archbishop Carlson sent myself and two of my classmates to the picturesque city of Villa de Leyva in the beautiful country of Colombia. The city located at the high elevation of 7,000 feet, is surrounded by mountains which peaked out another 5,000 feet above us… Continue reading 2nd Sunday of Lent Year C
Pro-Life Love Your Enemies
This Homily was given at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis before their monthly rosary walk to Planned Parenthood. Dt 26:16-19, Ps:119:1-2,4-5,7-8, Mt 5:43-48 In this morning’s Gospel, Jesus gives us a very direct challenge to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. This challenging call from Christ is ultimately an invitation to see… Continue reading Pro-Life Love Your Enemies
1st Sunday of Lent Year C
In the bible the desert is a place of encounter with God. It was in the desert that God first revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush, where God formed His people, the Israelites, into a nation as He lead them from slavery in Egypt through the desert to freedom in the Promised… Continue reading 1st Sunday of Lent Year C
Through The Cross To Light 