It sometimes feels like we are living in dark, difficult times in the United States. Terrorism, war, strange new diseases, and economic uncertainty...
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Cycle A (June 7, 2020)
St. Augustine was arguably the greatest theologian in the history of the Church. For centuries after his death in the year 430, his writings were...
Pentecost, Cycle A (May 31, 2020)
I’d like to draw your attention to the Prayer over the Offerings from today’s Mass. It reads: Grant, we pray, oh Lord,That, as promised...
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Cycle A (May 17, 2020)
When I was a child, it seemed to me that everyday life – everyday human experience – was somehow paper-thin, or lacking an essential...
Fifth Sunday of Easter, Cycle A (May 10, 2020)
Imagine you’re a student sitting in a classroom. The teacher turns to the class and says, “I’m sure I don’t need to tell you...
Fourth Sunday of Easter, Cycle A (May 3, 2020)
As a newly ordained priest in the late 1980s, my first assignment was to live and work in Nairobi, Kenya. A great thing about preaching there was...
Third Sunday of Easter, Cycle A (Apr. 26, 2020)
The two travelers on the road to Emmaus knew all about the fate that Jesus had suffered in Jerusalem. They had heard about His arrest, His...
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (Apr. 5, 2020)
When, at Mass on Palm Sunday, the Passion of our Lord is read in parts, the congregation often takes the role of the crowd, and calls out,...
Fifth Sunday of Lent, Cycle A (Mar. 29, 2020)
Our Lord loves each of us with an extravagant, unbounded, profligate love. Each of us tries to love Christ in return, to the full extent of our...