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November 2014

November 01, 2014

Homily for November 2, 2014: All Souls

Many of you may remember something Msgr. Funaro used to say when he was celebrating...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

Homily for October 12, 2014: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Last weekend, I was in Seattle, Washington, to speak to a group of deacons from...

October 07, 2014

“Prayer is water for a desperate and parched world”

Last weekend, I delivered three talks to the convocation for deacons in the Archdiocese of...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Homily for September 28, 2014: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Of all the remarkable moments that marked Derek Jeter’s last home game Thursday night, there...

September 14, 2014

“Every priest continues to be a deacon…for the Lord Himself became our minister, our deacon”

A reader sent along this homily that was delivered today by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades...

September 13, 2014

Homily for September 14, 2014: Exaltation of the Holy Cross

If you want a sense of what this feast today is all about, you need...

September 11, 2014

“We remember…”

Part of my homily for the ten year anniversary, on September 11, 2011: +++ I think...

September 06, 2014

Homily for September 7, 2014: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

In midtown Manhattan, near my office, there’s a huge public school on East 56th Street....

August 2014

August 30, 2014

Homily for August 31, 2014: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

In the gospels, it’s been a rough summer for St. Peter. A couple weeks ago,...

August 16, 2014

Homily for August 17, 2014: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Of all the stories that circulated last week about Robin Williams, there was one that I...

August 09, 2014

Homily for August 10, 2014: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The gospel we just heard is about many things: courage, faith, mystery. But above all,...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

“We are all pearls”: a deacon’s homily for this Sunday

A deacon friend sent me his homily for today. It's extraordinary and, I think, deserves...

July 26, 2014

Homily for July 27, 2014: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time—UPDATED

If you visited Facebook Friday afternoon, you would have seen on a sidebar a list...

June 2014

June 21, 2014

“Look at that host and you look at Christ”: Homily for Corpus Christi

From the vault: my Corpus Christi homily from 2009. ++ Back in the 1970s, when...

June 14, 2014

Homily for June 15, 2014: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

One of my favorite parts of being a deacon is something most people never see:...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Homily for June 1, 2014: 7th Sunday of Easter

A common question among some Christians is “WWJD?” What would Jesus do? Maybe we need...

May 28, 2014

“Do not stay too long on the mountain”: Homily for Ascension Thursday

From the vault, my homily for Ascension Thursday in 2008: The other day I read...

May 24, 2014

Homily for May 25, 2014: 6th Sunday of Easter

This is Memorial Day weekend, a time when a lot of us will be firing...

May 10, 2014

Homily for May 11, 2014: 4th Sunday of Easter

On a spring morning in 2010, a young man by the name of Dayan Machado...

May 03, 2014

Homily for May 4, 2014: 3rd Sunday of Easter

For a woman in Davidson, North Carolina, it was a disturbing sight. Driving by the...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

The Nazareths of John Paul

From the vault, here's part of a homily I delivered in 2011, on the occasion...

April 19, 2014

Homily for April 20, 2014: Easter

Just yesterday, I got an email from a friend who is a priest in South...

April 18, 2014

Good Friday homily: “Who can say what transpired in Judas’s soul during his final moments?”

From the Good Friday homily this year, here's Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the papal...

April 17, 2014

Homily for April 18, 2014: Good Friday

About 15 years ago, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land....

April 17, 2014

Papal preacher: “The Church must never look like a complicated and cluttered castle…”

I stumbled on this homily today, and it seems both appropriate and prophetic. It comes...

April 17, 2014

Homily-palooza

As we prepare to begin the Triduum, I thought I'd post a few homiletic thoughts...

April 16, 2014

Boston’s O’Malley: “Say no to pessimism”

Some great stuff here, from Cardinal Seán O'Malley's Chrism Mass homily yesterday: We gather for...

April 12, 2014

Homily for April 13, 2014: Palm Sunday

Back in the 1960s, there was a TV show called “That Was The Week That...

April 05, 2014

Homily for April 6, 2014: 5th Sunday of Lent

Several days ago, we got a glimpse of the papacy that made history—something that was...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

Homily for March 30, 2014: 4th Sunday of Lent

If you asked me, “who is the most influential Catholic woman in the world right...