Sunday Homily: Don't Make Me Angry!
Today’s Gospel from the Sermon of the Mount has one of the elements of the Gospel that I wish were never there. The other is the warning about blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. The reason is because too often these...
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God as Revolutionary
Today’s gospel is one that confronts our resolve to be committed to Christ. Let us look at the scene: St. John the Baptist is a powerful preacher who calls his people to true repentance and then uses the means of...
Who's In Control?
Today is a day of beginnings: It is the first day of the new liturgical year, and of the three year liturgical cycle. We just finished year C where our focus was the Gospel of Luke. Today we begin year...
Which Formula Do You Choose?
There are two people to whom Jesus never responded: The so called bad thief on the cross and to Herod. Both may have been speaking on behalf of someone else. It is important to know who that is. Looking carefully...
Utopia or Salvation?
Today our first reading comes from the 2nd Book of Maccabees. It takes place over 2000 years ago, but the lesson is apropos for today. The backstory is that there is a move in the gentile occupied Jewish land to...
Sunday Homily: Conversion is Catholic
Today’s gospel has themes that took place over 2000 years ago, but they are just as common for us today. We have to first understand what we are talking about when we are talking about tax collectors. Remember, they were...