Below are occasional homilies heard at our parish.
2011
March 13, 2011
The big lie
January 16, 2011
A reflection on an important statement of the Pope’s comments on where our civilization stands today.
January 9, 2011
Jesus was baptized to show that He was one of us; a basic theology all Christians should know.
2010
October 31, 2010
June 6, 2010
The second half of this sermon was inspired by Pope Benedict’s speech at World Youth Day in 2005.
May 30, 2010
The Trinity is one of my favorite things; we must not simply write it off as a mystery. I direct this sermon in a particular way to how the Trinity is relevant to young people. It is a meditation on the “spiritual agency” of words.
February 28, 2010
As frequently happens, Cardinal Ratzinger provides the material for this sermon.
January 10, 2010
January 3, 2010
The audio on this sermon is a little wacky — sorry — but it is a kind of sequel to the week before on family life; this focuses on the virtue of chastity.
2009
December 27, 2009
On the Feast of the Holy Family, we meditated on how we could have holy families — how to imitate Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
November 8, 2009
Bishop Boyea visited our parish and we put his homily up here because it is Bishop Boyea.
November 1, 2009
The beginning of this sermon is laborious but it gets going after a while and talks about the meaning of life!
October 25, 2009
Know anything about Melchizedek? He is mentioned in Eucharistic Prayer 1 and so we learned something about him today.
October 4, 2009
October is Respect Life month and this sermon addresses the hardness of heart that leads us to trouble.
September 6, 2009
This sermon has a great little story about baseball at the end which illustrates a good point.
August 16, 2009
August 9, 2009
August 2, 2009
This is the second homily on John chapter 6, which the Church arranges with Exodus chapter 16. In this homily, we try to show the parallels between these miraculous encounters with the Lord. And we talk about the nature of faith, which is necessary to believe in the Eucharist. I slipped a little bit, and accidentally said that the Jews wandered for 40 days in the wilderness, instead of 40 years. But everybody knows what I meant.
July 5, 2009
This is a homily on the Precious Blood of Jesus, it shows what the Precious Blood of Jesus does in a spiritual way what our natural blood does in a natural way.