Conversion means becoming who we really are? Strange as it may seem, this is a very helpful way to look at conversion. Conversion is from sin, which distorts our best and truest self. So the "change" of conversion is not into something alien to us; rather, it is ourselves becoming as God has intended us to be.

Ah, performance anxiety! I had said exactly what I wanted to say at the 8 am Mass. Regrettably, I had not recorded that one. So at 10:15 I was trying to duplicate the earlier delivery. I was way off. And it is a complicated thing to think about -- the qualitative difference between sight and insight. I find I sound better than I think I'm sounding, so this one is probably not bad. Anyway, we trust in the power of the Word for our deepest healing.

This homily is a little different from the other one because of a rite of acceptance for a new catechumen.

Hear the word "leper," think the word "leopard"? I do.

"Thou shalt not whine." Is it possible to live according to this commandment?

What might I have talked about on this weekend? You'll have to listen to find out.

Today is the 50th anniversary of Pope John XXIII's call for an ecumenical council.

I do recall that I made mention of the historic character of Barack Obama's assumption of the Presidency.

Again, I am uploading this on 2/14/09 and I do not recollect the substance of this homily.

Once again, this homily has disappeared into the mists of history, at least as far as my own mind is concerned.