Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

I've just got back from a meeting on the permanent diaconate on Long Island. On Thursday night, we were bused into New York City t...

Our beautiful Easter celebration got off to a rocky start this year. On Holy Saturday morning I walked into the church to find Amina, th...

Last night I baptized a young couple who are getting married in December. I also baptized the groom from a wedding I performed last summer....

Dear Erin, Gina, Jen, Michael, Paolo, and Samantha, It's going to be a long night! Yet the Missal says that the homily—even if brief...

Last Wednesday, a parishioner sent me an e-mail asking "Why is Good Friday called 'good'? He'd have had a better chance ...

  I won’t ask what you did for Lent. I haven’t asked anyone that since the time one of our young parishioners replied that he’d given up...

Since we are celebrating the Rite of Christian Initiation with our catechumens this Sunday, the readings used are those of Year A, which are...