“Lending Your Flesh to Christ” — Sermon for the XXIX Sunday through the Year, A.D. MMXXIV

On February 5th, 2006, Fr. Andrea Santoro, an Italian missionary priest in eastern Turkey, was kneeling and praying in his church when a young man entered, shouted, “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is the greatest”), and shot him dead. His murderer, though convicted, he was released after serving only ten years of his sentence after a […]

“This is My flesh for the life of the world” — Sermon for the XIX Sunday through the Year, A.D. MMXXIV

“So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.” We’ve been reading the Lord’s Bread of Life discourse through the lens of St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. Last Sunday, we […]

“Touching the Sacred Poverty of Christ” — Sermon for the XIII Sunday through the Year, June 30, 2024

“For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” Christ invites us today to encounter His poverty, but this poverty is not necessarily the poverty you might expect. Of course, we know […]

“We accept Your holy will” — Sermon for the XII Sunday through the Year, 2024

“Why are you terrified, do you not yet have faith?” There are times in everyone’s life when Christ seems to be asleep in the boat, when you are tempted to question God’s existence, or at least whether He really cares about and truly loves you, when you want to call out, “Do you not […]

New Location for Sermons

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A Relationship with the Holy Spirit

Talking about the Holy Spirit makes me nervous. For most of my life, I thought that being close to the Holy Spirit meant being obsessed with dramatic healings or with overwhelming and intense spiritual experiences. I think this is what most people think of when we talk about the Holy Spirit – the televangelists and […]

You Were Meant for More

You were made for so much more than this! That is the message of today’s Feast of the Ascension: You were meant for so much more than what this world has to offer. Today we celebrate the final event of the Paschal Mystery that we have been observing ever since Good Friday – the central […]

True Prayer at Mass

It is rather late this year, but we have finally begun the holy season of Lent, this intense time in the Church’s life when we dedicate ourselves to what is most important: coming back to the Lord with our whole hearts through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. The first of these three ancient Lenten disciplines, prayer, […]

Giving Thanks to God for His Indescribable Gifts

“Give, and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.” When we were kids, my sister and I would help my grandma bake cookies. My sister loved […]

The Commercialization of Anger vs. Authentic Love

Last Sunday, we heard about the incredible mission that Christ invites us to share in as members of His body the Church, His mission to preach the good news to the spiritually poor. Today, in the Gospel, we continue right where we left off. The results of our Lord’s invitation are not quite what we […]

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