This was the Young Adult Mass in Springfield. In this homily I mention my niece Erin, who is currently doing volunteer work in Guatemala.

"That thing in our brain" -- Why is it that we make such a sharp distinction between "my people" and "not my people"? Recorded at New Berlin.

Christmas on Saturday followed by Sunday Masses proved too crazy even to do any recording. Today I present three homilies from one day. This first one may suffer from some audio competition. Recorded at Franklin.

We have three very important but quite difficult Scriptures here. The homily includes comments on the major difficulties to be found when reflecting on each of the readings.

It is not only the farmer awaiting the yield of the soil who learns patience. Everyone staring at a computer screen also comes to appreciate the virtue of patience. Patience liberates us to look at our life and its blessings in its fullness.

Amazing images of peace assure us that peace can conquer even our own hearts. The call to repentance is an invitation to an astonishing peace.

What is our concept of time? Do we simply find a succession of events without relation or meaning? The coming of the Kingdom of God breaks through the tedium and leads us to a moment of conversion, when things unthought of become possible.

How does Christ the King govern? Consider how humbly he tends to his realm: from the throne of the cross.

On the fourteenth anniversary of the death of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, we consider how his example accords with the scriptural call to be confident in the face of the "ultimates" of life.

Resurrection is real. If there were no resurrection, God would not be God. As Jesus assures us, God is not a God of the dead but of the living.