Homilies from March, 2019
Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 30, 2019
Joshua 5:9a, 10-12; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
They’re five words that no parent wants to hear from one of their children: “You are dead to me.”
Of course, the son in our gospel reading...
Third Sunday in Lent
March 23, 2019
Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15; 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9
Over the past few weeks, our world has witnessed several terrible tragedies:
The crash of an airplane in Ethiopia that killed 157 people;
A terrorist...
2nd Sunday of Lent
March 17, 2019
Homily for March 17, 2019 (2nd Sunday of Lent)
Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 9:28b-36
St. John of the Cross wrote that “If a man wishes to be sure of the road he is traveling on, then he must...
First Sunday of Lent
March 9, 2019
Deuteronomy 26:4-10; Romans 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13
Alvaro Enciso is an artist. He’s is also a self-described reluctant activist. One day he saw a map of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. It was covered with...