At the Lamb’s High Feast

The Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 26, 2026.

There will be no homily this weekend or next weekend (as there was not one last weekend) while I am traveling and on retreats. In the meantime, you can check out a new monthly podcast I have started with another priest called, Dinner at the Rectory (https://dinnerattherectory.podbean.com/). You can find it at all the major podcast locations.

Mass Readings:

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Homily for the Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 12, 2026.

Good soil is a soul open to God in obedience, courage, and hope. Such a soul understands that through the Cross and Resurrection Christ transforms suffering from a limitation into a path toward glory, allowing the Word of God to take root and bear abundant fruit.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Isaiah 55:10-11

Psalm: Psalm 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14

Second Reading: Romans ...

Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 5, 2026.

True peace is not merely the absence of conflict, but the fruit of justice: right relationship with God, neighbor, and society. Christ restores the friendship lost in the garden, teaching us to seek the goods of the Spirit, overcome hatred, and build peace by willing the good of one another.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Zechariah 9:9-10

Psalm: Psalm 145:1-2, 8-9, ...

Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 28, 2026.

The Christian life requires the friendship of holy people who have already begun to live what they teach. Their tranquility, simplicity, reverence, and confidence in the victory of the Cross show us how to seek sanctity in the concrete circumstances of daily life.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a

Psalm: Psalm 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19

Second Reading...

Homily for the Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 21, 2026.

Christ’s command, “Do not be afraid,” only makes sense if the soul is real and greater than the body. Christians must form the soul through wisdom, penance, courage, and prayer, so that they may acknowledge Him before the world.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Jeremiah 20:10-13

Psalm: Psalm 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35

Second Reading: Romans 5:12-15

Allelui...

Homily for the Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 14, 2026.

God loves all people, but covenant creates a particular relationship of belonging, obedience, and mission. In Christ, the Church becomes God’s covenant people, called to choose life, hold fast to the Lord, and call sinners back into friendship with Him.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Exodus 19:2-6a

Psalm: Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5

Second Reading: Romans 5:6-11

Allelu...

Homily for Corpus Christi on June 7, 2026.

The Eucharist is the center of Catholic life because it is Christ Himself: the source of our salvation, sanctification, and worship. Corpus Christi calls us to become a Eucharistic people through reverence, preparation, moral conversion, and adoration.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a

Psalm: Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

Allel...

Homily for Trinity Sunday on May 31, 2026. On Trinity Sunday, the Church contemplates the deepest truth of reality: God is one God in three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This mystery is not an abstract puzzle but the revelation that God is eternal love, and that all creation comes from Love and is sustained by Love. To believe in the Trinity is to recognize that we are made from love, for love, and ultimately for communion...

Homily for Pentecost Sunday on May 24, 2026.

At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit is poured out not merely to console the Church, but to make her a bold witness to the Risen Lord. Every true encounter with Christ demands death to the old life, courage before the world, and a willingness to testify that Jesus is Lord even through suffering.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Acts 2:1-11

Psalm: Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 

Second Readin...

Homily for the Ascension of the Lord on May 17, 2026.

The Ascension is not Christ’s departure from the world, but the revelation of his universal kingship. The wounded Shepherd-King reigns from the right hand of the Father, claiming every corner of creation and every hidden part of our lives with mercy, authority, and abiding presence.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Acts 1:1-11

Psalm: Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9

Second Reading: Ep...

Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter on May 10, 2026.

Christian witness is not a contest to be won by aggression, but a proclamation of truth given with gentleness and reverence. Only when our words are conformed to Christ’s commandments and our lives are transfigured by the Spirit can we become credible witnesses to the truth that sets man free.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17

Psalm: Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7,...

Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter on May 3, 2026.

Christ is the cornerstone of the Father’s house, and the Church is built upon Him as a living temple. Our task is to receive the place entrusted to us by Christ within that temple and offer our lives in worship, truth, and charity. Only in doing so will we find the fullness of life.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Acts 6:1-7

Psalm: Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19

Second Reading: 1...

Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter on April 26, 2026.

Every human heart longs for abundance, yet the paths offered by the world leave the soul empty. Christ, the Good Shepherd, leads to true life not merely by cutting away sin, but by filling our lives with God. Through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, the soul is ordered toward the pasture where it can finally rest.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Psalm: Psalm...

Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter on April 19, 2026.

Christ’s Resurrection does not erase the wounds of the past but transforms them into signs of glory. The Gospel reveals that God is not restoring a former life but bringing about an entirely new one. In Him, even suffering and sin can become the place where divine life breaks forth.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: Acts 2:14, 22-33

Psalm: Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11

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Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter on April 12, 2026.

Christ does not reveal His Resurrection apart from His wounds, but through them, and it is through something visible and concrete that faith is born. What the wounds were for Thomas, the Church is meant to be for the world: a real, embodied place where the risen Christ can be encountered. If that visible life of communion and sacrificial love is absent, then faith becomes un...

Homily for Easter Sunday on April 5, 2026.

The empty tomb is not a place to remain but a sign that Christ has passed beyond death, and He is not found among the places of sin and regret where we continue to search. The Resurrection is believed before it is understood, for it does not merely restore what was lost but opens us to a new participation in the life of God. This life is not grasped by thought but received through encounte...

Homily for Palm Sunday on March 29, 2026.

The silence of Christ before His accusers is not weakness but judgment. The Word of God allows Himself to be judged so that He may judge the world. On the Cross, the old creation marked by sin, darkness, and death is brought to its end, and a new creation begins to emerge from His death. To follow Him is to descend with Him into that death, so as to rise into the life spoken by the Word of ...

Homily for the Fifth Week of Lent on March 22, 2026.

At the raising of Lazarus, Christ is not simply solving a problem, He is revealing the glory of God. This moment exposes a deeper crisis: do we see God as one who serves our lives, or as the One in whom all life finds its meaning? The Gospel calls us to move from a closed, “fleshly” vision of reality to a sacramental vision where even suffering becomes a place of enco...

Homily for the Fourth Week of Lent on March 15, 2026.

Why does the human heart remain restless even when surrounded by the good things of the world? The problem is not that we thirst, but where we try to drink. Only Christ, the true spring of living water, can satisfy the deepest longing of the human soul.

Mass Readings:

First Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a

Psalm: Psalm 23: 1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6

Second Reading: Ephesians 5:8-14

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