Homilies

This feast commemorates a discovery made around the year 320 by the empress, St. Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine. From...

There is only one Sunday every three years that we hear from a book in the Bible known as the Letter to Philemon. Paul wrote this letter...

Today’s readings call us to humility. But humility is generally not regarded as a virtue in our culture; a culture that tells us we have...

Have you ever been asked, “Are you saved?” As Catholics, it’s not a phrase we tend to use and so we’re usually unsure of how to answer....

Do you have faith? I suspect that most of us would say we do—perhaps without even thinking about it. But what exactly do we mean, when...

Today we hear from the Book of Ecclesiastes. It’s the only Sunday of our 3-year cycle that we hear from this book. The book begins with...

I remember having a disagreement with someone on the teaching of purgatory. He said that he doesn't believe in it, because Jesus’s death,...

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the most beloved but also challenging of parables. Jesus offered it in response to a fellow...

I recall listening to a lecture by Dr. Scott Hahn [1] . He described an informal debate he had with a Muslim scholar regarding our two...

This Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul goes back to the third century, and it’s a blessing to have it fall on a Sunday this year. Peter...

In 1264, Pope Urban IV instituted this solemnity for the Universal Church, as a statement of our belief in the True Presence of Jesus in...

On this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, we do our best to contemplate the mystery of God’s inner-life as Three Divine Persons:...

There are several ways to understand this feast: It’s the final element of the great 3-part mystery that we call the Paschal Mystery :...

Traditionally the 4th Sunday of Easter is known as Good Shepherd Sunday . We always hear a gospel where Jesus speaks of himself as a...

Today’s Gospel tells us a lot about coming to terms with our mistakes and moving forward. It tells us a lot about the person, St. Peter—a...

In this Gospel reading, Thomas functions like a scientist, demanding concrete data, empirical evidence, if he is to accept as reality,...

I encourage us to make this week something different. Let us not go about our busy tasks as we would on any other week. Consider what it...

In today’s Gospel, with its dramatic story, one of the things it stirs up in almost all of us, is sympathy for the woman. We know nothing...

In our faith tradition, there are four virtues that we identify as ‘cardinal virtues’—cardinal meaning virtues from which other virtues...