Homily from the Commemoration of All the Faithfully Departed (All Souls).

By the end of this Mass, some things will be changed forever.

Purgatory is an essential teaching of Christianity. It highlights that salvation is both an event and a process. Purgatory is God's gift on continuing the process of making our hearts like His that He began in this life.

John 6:37-40

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Nothing to Offer. Nothing to Prove. Nothing to Hide.

When we stand before the gates of Heaven and we are asked why we should be let in...what is our answer? How would we approach Heaven? How do we approach God now? We might approach God with our resume, or as an audition, or with perfection...but we need to approach in a different way.

Luke 18:9-14

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Persist through severity.

There are big moments in our lives. We usually think of the beginning or the end of something as the moments of consequence. But the middle often holds the most impactful moments of consequence; times when we are called to persevere...to "remain faithful" to the decisions we have made.

Luke 18:1-8

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Break the cycle and build your life on a relationship with the God who saved your life.

We often find ourselves in the same cycle as many people in the Bible: We find ourselves in desperate need, we cry out to God, He answers, we thank Him...and then we forget. There is a way to break this cycle and build our lives on a relationship with the God who saved our lives.

Luke 17:11-19

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

You have already been given everything you need to be a saint.

Imagine finding out that you had an inheritance. So many problems could be solved and you could do so much...if only you had more. But what if you had everything you need already?

Luke 17:5-10

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

When comfort is our god, we end up underliving our lives.

Modern life has done a powerful job of reducing stark deprivation. This is a good thing. But one of the results is that many of us have become captive to comfort.

Luke 16:19-31

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Don't let what Jesus did for you end with you.

Jesus is the one Mediator between God and humanity. He has saved us. But God wills that all humans are saved. Because of this, He calls those who have been saved by Him to brings His salvation to everyone else.

Luke 16:1-13

Homily from the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to our guilt. The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to our lack of trust. The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to evil.

John 3:13-17

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Whenever there is something of value that we desire, we have to ask these two questions.

Jesus gives the conditions for discipleship. He gives us the very "cost" of being His disciple. The condition is: He must be FIRST. He must be loved before all others.

Luke 14:25-33

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Humility is nothing other than acknowledging and living the truth.

Humility is not pretending to be someone other than we are. It is neither pretending to be better nor pretending to be worse than we are. But is the freedom and the joy of living the full truth about ourselves.

Luke 14:1, 7-14