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What Truly Binds Us: Sermon for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
“Whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith. Who indeed is the victor over the...
Christmas Sermon: Jesus Disrupts Everything
The world had grown old. “Unknown ages from the time when God created the heavens and the earth … Several thousand years after the flood...
Sermon: Finding Buried Treasure
Francisco de Borja was born into the most notoriously degenerate family in Europe. His mother was the daughter of an archbishop, who was...
Sermon: The Gate of Heaven and the House of God
On July 19, the year of our Lord 1970, St. John the Evangelist parish celebrated a significant milestone: the dedication of our new...
Sermon: Living the death of Christ
At the beginning of the Rite of Baptism, the priest asks an important question: “What do you desire?” The traditional rite directs the...
Sermon: We're Not Going Back to Normal
“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours.” The season of Easter is...
Sermon: Doubting the Resurrection
St. Thomas does not deserve his bad reputation. After all, he is not the only Apostle to doubt the Lord’s Resurrection. St. Matthew tells...
Sermon: Your Galilee
Haec est dies – this is the day. For centuries, these words have resounded in Christian worship on this day and throughout the Easter...
Sermon: We Call This Friday Good
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the...
Sermon: We are supposed to rejoice?
“Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that...
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