Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Cross is Our Peace
We continue our reading of Paul's extraordinary letter to the Ephesians. We hear that the cross of Jesus has broken down the wall of enmity which div…
19 years, 11 months ago
The Five Act Drama
For the next several weeks, we are going to be reading from Paul's magnificent letter to the Ephesians. In our passage for today, we learn that we ar…
19 years, 11 months ago
The Call of the Prophet
Every baptized person is conformed to Christ: King, Priest, and Prophet. Thus speaking the divine truth (prophecy) is not the concern of priests and …
19 years, 11 months ago
The Daughter of Jairus and the Book of Leviticus
In order to understand the power of our Gospel reading for this week, we must attend to the book of Leviticus. In that great rule-book of Israelite l…
20 years ago
The 'De Profundis' Prayer
Psalm 130 begins with the words, "out of the depths, I have cried to you, O Lord." Throughout the great tradition, the prayer ""de profundis,"" (out …
20 years ago
The Mass and Sacrifice
For this feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord, I reflect on the Mass as a sacrifice. Sacrificial language runs right through all of our readings f…
20 years ago
God Is Love
On the feast of the Trinity, we reflect on the uniquely Christian definition of God: God is love. Love is not something that God does, or an attribut…
20 years ago
Pentecost and the Tower of Babel
All the Jews in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost heard the disciples preaching in their own languages. This miracle of the Spirit is the reversal…
20 years, 1 month ago
The Da Vinci Code (Part 2 of 2)
This week I discuss two more themes that emerge in the Da Vinci Code: the Gnostic Gospels and anti-Catholicism. Much of the storyline of the Da Vinci…
20 years, 1 month ago
The Da Vinci Code (Part 1 of 2)
I don't like departing from the Scriptures in these homilies, but the appearance of the movie based upon the wildly popular novel The Da Vinci Code w…
20 years, 1 month ago