Homily for Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, Year B. The Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb. After Adam disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, He asked Adam this question: “Where are you?” Naked and afraid, Adam had run away and hid from God. In the …
Month: March 2021
The Heart of the Matter
Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year B. When I was a sophomore at UW-Madison, I lived a remarkably unbalanced life. I got really good grades, but that’s because I stayed up studying every day until one-thirty in the morning. At one-thirty, I would put my pencil down, close my notebook, and spend some …
As Sunday Goes, So Goes Everything
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B. If someone asked you to write a spiritual autobiography, what sort of stories would you include? What key moments would you focus on? Could you do it in four pages or less? Every year, over the first four Sundays of Lent, the Church offers us a …
46 is the Magic Number
Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent, Year B. Sometimes there’s a single word which brings out the meaning of the gospel. This morning, it’s a single number. And that number in 46. When Jesus says that He could rebuild the Temple in three days, the Jews, flabbergasted by this seemingly outrageous claim, remind Jesus …
10 or 10,000 Commandments?
Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent, Year B. When I was growing up, the Catholic Church was frequently stereotyped as being a Church of rules and commandments. Now that I’m older, and hopefully wiser, I realize that the Catholic Church actually has far fewer rules and commandments than the rest of the world. In …
Isaiah Forty-Three 