Sanctuary Views

If God is Love, and we're stamped with His image, then our existence, purpose and fulfillment are wrapped up with love, too. Homily for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Today is the Feast Day of St. John Paul II. His encounter with the Soviets is instructive for the challenges confronting us today, as we seek to follow Christ's command to Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. Homily for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time and our Patronal Feast Day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
 

Homily for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time.