09/28/08 True Obedience

Homily from the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"There is only one way to be truly obedient: and that is first to know the love of the Person that you must be obedient to."

Readings from September 28th, 2008:

Ezekiel 18: 25-28

Phillipians 2: 1-11

Matthew 21: 28-32

09/21/08 Why Do It?

Homily from the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

"We must ask ourselves, 'Do I go to Church, do I do the things I do because I love our Lord, or am I trying to punch a ticket to get into Heaven?"

Readings from September 21st, 2008:

Isaiah 55:6-9

Psalm 145: 2-3.8-9,17-18

Phillipians 1:20c-24, 27a

Matthew 20:1-16a

09/14/08 Gratitude

Homily from the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross:

It's easy to become ungrateful when you don't see what it cost. It's easy to look at a Cross and just sort of think it's nice. But when you look at a Crucifix, and you see our Lord beaten, bruised, cut, crucified...you have to stop and ask yourself, "Am I grateful?"

Readings from September 14th, 2008:

Numbers 21: 4-9

Phillipians 2:6-11

John 3: 13-17