Sanctuary Views

Invitations that Matter

To what is God sending out invitations? How is He sending them? What's endangering our response? Homily for the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Anxiety-Free Living

How could St. Paul encourage his people to "Have no anxiety at all..."? Here is anxiety's cause and remedy. Homily for the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Participating in the Pattern of Redemption

The extraordinary pattern present in today's second reading harkens back to the beginning, restores creation's identity, while creating space for our participation. Homily for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Upside Down ~ Right-side Up

Isn't it strange that we say we want eternal happiness with God, but often identify happiness with what He prohibits? How can both be true? Is working in the Lord's vineyard freeing or constraining, enriching or impoverishing? Homily for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Remember Your Last Days and the Point of Your Life

Sirach bids us to keep in mind our future death and cease to sin. Sin, in Greek, means to miss the mark. So it's not our mere mortality we are to keep in mind, but the point, the goal, the mark of our life, and whether or not we're aiming at it, hitting it.
Please check out Bishop Barron's homily that I referenced: https://youtu.be/OaeZ3cGlns8?si=_EYEMDGmm0vb3O9U
 

The Responsibility to Speak the Truth in Love

Homily for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Your Body Is Not An Ornament

What did St. Paul mean when he said to offer your body to God as a living sacrifice, your spiritual worship? Is your body something separate from yourself? If not, then what does that say about masculinity and femininity, anything? Homily for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time.

There’s Knowing, and then there’s Knowing.

Homily for the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time.