Latest Homilies
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 5, 2018
Homily / November 4th, 2018
Today’s readings repeat the command to love God about everything else and everybody else in both the first reading and the Gospel. The words are the heart and soul of the Jewish people. They...
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 23, 2018
I had a priests’ meeting last week, and it was a long meeting. It was a painful meeting, in my opinion, because one or two people really like to hear themselves talk! And they took every opportunity, every item on the...
Feast of St Francis of Assisi
October 18, 2018
Homily / October 7th, 2018
I can’t think of better decorations for this feastday than the Bed-in-a-Bags here around the altar. It is so Franciscan. If you don’t know what these are about, they are bed linens for the...
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 1, 2018
Homily / Sunday, September 30, 2018
There is a beautiful image at the beginning of the first reading. It talks about how God took some of the spirit from Moses and distributed it to some 70 others. I like the image because it...