Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C. Fr. Gereon Goldmann was not yet a priest, but was preparing to become one, when World War II broke out in Germany. Soon after, he and his fellow seminarians, despite their chosen vocation, were drafted into the German army. Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, …
Month: July 2022
Samaritan Sacraments
Homily for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C. It sometimes comes as a surprise that I’m not naturally a people-person. I’m in the people business, after all, and so sometimes it’s assumed that I’m naturally gifted for that kind of work. But that’s definitely not the case. From the time I was in …
Fighting the Dragon and Becoming the Lion
Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C. “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” This is the opening line from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, a children’s novel by the British author C.S. Lewis. It’s one of my favorite opening lines in all of literature, …
Isaiah Forty-Three 