Tag: Homilies

The Dangers of Understanding

Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge.

08/22/2021 Homily
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Once that which was special ceases to be special, what’s left to focus on but the discordant and ugly? Those are the things our consciousness starts to focus on when the harmonious and beautiful has faded into the background.

08/08/2021 Homily

Eucharist as Trust

Took, blessed, broke, gave — the four eucharistic words. Jesus took not the disciples’ abundance, but their poverty, and blessed what was there rather than complaining about what wasn’t. Eucharist as trust: giving from our little, believing God will make it enough.
Meek and Humble of Heart

The Greek word Jesus uses for “meek” — praus — is the word for a tamed horse: strength controlled and directed, not weakness. Zechariah’s king, the Father’s little ones, and Christ’s easy yoke all point to the same radical truth: let go, trust God.
Recognition and Hospitality

What keeps us from opening our hearts to others? Fear — fear of not living up to expectations. But baptism has already put that old, anxious self to death. The freedom we live in now bears two fruits: discernment and hospitality. Even a cup of cold water, attentively given, carries immense value.

The Dangers of Understanding