Homilies from May, 2019

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29 St. Paul once wrote that “the love of money is the root of all evil.”  Contrary to what the unscrupulous investor Gordon Gekko said in the 1987...

5th Sunday of Easter

Acts 14:21-27; Revelation 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a, 34-35 Our parish and four others in our area recently began the Renew My Church process here in the Archdiocese of Chicago.  One of the initial steps of the process...

Fourth Sunday of Easter

Good-shepherd-lamb-of-god Acts 13:14, 43-52; Revelation 7:9, 14b-17; John 10:27-30 We hear a lot today about multi-tasking—doing more than one thing at the same time.  Sometimes it’s easy and relatively harmless.  Almost all of...

3rd Sunday of Easter

Alisa-anton-81042-unsplash Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 Viktor Frankl, the famed Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and author, was also a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust.  His experiences in Auschwitz and in the labor...