Homilies

April 25, 2025: "Francis challenged our conscience, and the assumptions of our way of life. He questioned the “culture of comfort” that causes us to think only of our own needs; that insulates us and makes us insensitive to the cries of the poor."

April 21, 2025: "Today we are entrusting Pope Francis, the 265th successor of St. Peter, to that hope that we all have in Jesus: the hope of eternal life, the hope of the kingdom that he promises to those who love him."

April 19, 2025: "These readings tell us the whole story of human history: from the dawn of creation to the dawn of the new creation in Jesus Christ. In God’s loving plan, all of history was destined to lead to this holy night, all of history was moving from the darkness to light, from death to resurrection."

April 18, 2025: "The Cross is the sign of our hope, because the way of the Cross leads to the empty tomb of Easter. The Cross, as we heard, is the “throne of grace” that’s what we hear about in the second reading."

April 14, 2025: "By this anointing, each of us has received the Spirit and been made a child of God and an heir of Jesus and the hope of his resurrection — the hope of eternal life, the hope of the kingdom that he promises to those who love him."

April 13, 2025: "We know that Jesus Christ suffered and died for our sins. This week we want to move from “knowing” this, to “feeling” this. We want to allow his sufferings to speak to us, to stir our hearts from indifference and move us to a deeper conversion."

April 5, 2025: "And in this Jubilee Year, it’s so important for us to reflect on how Jesus is calling us to be his instruments, heroes of hope! In our parishes, in our schools and our communities, and in our homes. We are called to be missionaries of hope!"

March 22, 2025: "As Jesus says, those who die are not “greater sinners,” they’re not “more guilty” than the rest of us. So Jesus is inviting us today to examine our consciences and to reflect on our own life. And also about our own death."

March 18, 2025: "Our Christian life is meant to be a life of love. We’re meant to spend our whole lives loving Jesus and following his commands and teachings; being good friends with Jesus; and loving others as Jesus loves us."

March 9, 2025: "Jesus allowed himself, as we just heard, to undergo temptations, because he knew that we also have temptations in our life. This is something we need to always remember. There is nothing that we go through, nothing that we suffer, that Jesus has not already endured before us."

March 5, 2025: "Each of us knows in our heart, that sometimes we turn away, that we have wandered off the path that God would have us follow. We are not big sinners, but we know that we can do better. And my brothers and sisters, that’s what Lent is for."

February 23, 2025: "The faith that we proclaim and teach is meant to be life-giving, life-changing, it’s meant to bring about a revolution of the human heart! And in your role as teachers and catechists, you are called to be men and women who change lives, working with the Spirit to shape and form souls in the likeness of Christ."

February 20, 2025: "But if we believe that Jesus is who he says he is, if we really believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, who suffered and was killed and on the third day rose again, then our life totally changes!"

February 16, 2025: "He’s teaching us that we need to have hearts that long for God alone, hearts that seek only him, hearts that know that what we are looking for in life can only be found in God. If we don’t have God in our lives, we will never be satisfied. We’ll never be fully happy."

February 15, 2025: "We will never be satisfied, never be truly happy, if we do not have God in our lives. Jesus is telling us tonight that if we want to find God, we need to be “poor in spirit,” to live with detachment from material things. To follow Jesus, we need to have a simple lifestyle, not worrying too much about ourselves and our comforts."

February 2, 2025: "It is a humble, ordinary scene that we see in our Gospel today. A mother and her husband come to the Temple to present their newborn child to God. It’s a scene that’s not much different than the way parents today bring their child to be baptized in our time."

January 18, 2025: "Especially in this moment, if we open our hearts and look with Mary’s eyes, we will see people who have no food, no home, no jobs, as a result of the wildfires. We will see people who have no one to love them, no one to heal their wounds."

January 10, 2025: "We must be the ones who bring comfort to our neighbors in this time of disaster. And we must be the ones also who stand by their side and help them to rebuild and go forward with courage and faith and hope in God."

January 9, 2025: "We don’t know why these disasters happen. But we do know that Our Father holds this world, and each of our lives, in his loving hands. And we do know that everything he does, he does out of love for us, and for our salvation."

December 29, 2024: "Every Jubilee reminds us that we are all “on pilgrimage.Our life’s journey is now a journey of faith. With Jesus at our side, walking by his Spirit, we are on pilgrimage to his Father’s house, to the heavenly kingdom, where we will discover the love that never ends."