Latest Homilies

Second Sunday of Lent

March 7, 2020
Genesis 12:1-4a; Psalm 33; 2 Timothy 1:8b-10; Matthew 17:1-9   I started wearing glasses when I was in fourth grade.           I wore single-vision glasses until I was 45 years...

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First Sunday of Lent

February 29, 2020
Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Psalm 51; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11 People celebrate the day before Ash Wednesday in many different ways. In Brazil, for example, millions of people fill the streets and beaches of Rio de Janeiro to...

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Ash Wednesday

February 26, 2020
Joel 2:12-18; 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Today we’re marked with ashes with a timeless call to remember our mortality and to turn from our sins and believe in the gospel.  The prophet Joel,...

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Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 22, 2020
Lev. 19:1-2, 17-18; Ps. 103; 1 Cor. 3:16-23; Matt. 5:38-48 The 1987 movie The Untouchables is a fictionalized account of how Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and the FBI brought down notorious Chicago mobster Al Capone. Ness enlists...

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