Pastor’s Homilies Archive

I have gotten the impression that not an insignificant number of people are a little tired of winter. The weather has been grim: lots of clouds, snow, rain, bitter cold, freak warm-ups, and so on. So let me remind you…

Have you ever felt like you’ve hit rock bottom? Last summer I read a book called The Power of Habit, which begins with the story of a woman named Lisa Allen and her rock bottom moment. It happened in a…

Our second reading today from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians has to be one of the most well-known passages from Scripture: “Love is patient; love is kind….” When do we hear this reading most often? At weddings of…

I have to admit that I used to get a little hung up on the way Jesus talks to his mother in today’s Gospel. They are at the wedding at Cana, most likely the wedding of some relatives, and the…

So here we are still in the early days of a new semester and a new year. Last year is in the past now, and we look ahead to the new one. What is going to be different this year?…

I think one of the most frightening experiences a parent can have is to lose a child. I remember being at a crowded beach while on vacation once when the relaxed atmosphere was suddenly interrupted by a woman screaming, “I…

This fourth week of Advent is a little strange, given that it already ends tomorrow evening. So we are right on the cusp of the celebration of Christmas. The last two Sundays our Gospels focused on John the Baptist, the…

We have all heard how Advent is a season of expectation, of waiting for the coming of Jesus Christ, when we recall the many centuries that the world waited for the coming of the Messiah, fulfilled when Jesus Christ was…

On the internet maybe you have looked at a satellite image of the world and then zoomed in to the country, the state, the city, and then your neighborhood and then finally your house. There it is, a picture of…

Jeremiah was not exactly known for being a cheery fellow. He lived during a time of great upheaval, wars, conflicts, and exile; a time that saw the first destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. And the Lord sent him…