Month: August 2022

Beyond Customary Arrogance

"‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor.’"

08/28/2022 Homily
Saved? From What?

"‘Strive to enter through the narrow gate.’"

08/21/2022 Homily
Kairos: Terrible Moment of Grace

"‘Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.’"

08/14/2022 Homily
Four Spiritual Work Habits

"‘Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.’"

08/07/2022 Homily

Reversing Course

May we ever confess to the glory of God the Father, Jesus Christ is Lord.
Is Your Eye Evil?

God doesn’t operate within a merit economy where everyone gets exactly what’s due them. God operates within a grace economy, where everyone receives not only what’s due, but more. The question was never whether the landowner was fair. The question is: is your eye evil because he is good?
Compassion, Love, and Mercy

The debt forgiven was billions; the debt refused was thousands. Jesus’s parable isn’t only about an ungrateful servant — it’s about compassion received and compassion withheld. Failures in compassion are, in the end, failures in gratitude. And the torturers we’re handed over to wear our own face.
Sin and Punishment

Punishment purchases compliance at the cost of resentment. It cannot bring about metanoia. Before we confront someone’s wrong, we have to ask: does it need to be said? Does it need to be said by me? Does it need to be said now? Correction, rightly practiced, seeks conversion, not vengeance.
The Fundamental Option

Give in to the voice that says you’re too weak, not good enough, settle for the easier way — or take up your cross and go through your fears into the life of the Spirit. Karl Rahner called it the fundamental option. For all of us, the choice is the same: death or life. Choose life.
Living with Uncertainty

Peter confesses, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” — but did he even understand what he was saying? Between Shebna and Eliakim, between Pan and Yahweh, between the good popes and the self-serving ones, Scripture keeps handing us dichotomy rather than clarity. Growth doesn’t come from certainty, but from the willingness to sit with what we don’t fully understand.

Month: August 2022

Beyond Customary Arrogance

Saved? From What?

Kairos: Terrible Moment of Grace

Four Spiritual Work Habits