Latest Homilies
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 7, 2021
Job 7:1-4, 6-7; 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39
There are bad days, there are very bad days, and then there are really, really bad days. Job, whom we encounter in our first reading, had a really, really bad...
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 31, 2021
Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28
In The Gulag Archipelago, the classic memoir of his time as a dissident and political prisoner in the former Soviet Union, Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (d. 2008)...
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 24, 2021
Jonah 3:1-5. 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous short story, A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes provides his assistant Dr. Watson with an important lesson on the difference...
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
January 17, 2021
1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42
Our Pastor at St. Mark’s, Fr. John, asked me to come today because he has been called up with his wing of the Air National Guard to go to Washington, DC in...
Notes from a Journey - Capuchin Friar John Celichowski