Quinquagesima Sunday
Today's sermon is on how Jesus Christ on the cross fulfills the law of charity: Love in the shape of a cross.
Sexagesima Sunday: Nature versus Nurture
How much does the father-wound or mother-wound affect our ability to follow Christ?
How God Loved Your Soul Before It Existed
Last night, a spiritual directee in Europe emailed me a quick question on Scripture and philosophy. I typed out a medium-length answer, but it hit me that this might actually help my other readers to understand God's love in a new way. I normally don't publicize emails to me, but she gave me permission and I changed her name. The above picture is Aristotle, and you'll see how he fits into the answer. Happy Sunday, Padre! I have questions. Souls don't exist before our bodies, right? At conception, is when God first creates the soul and joins it to the body. Right? That's when we first 'began' but the soul has no end. I don't fully understand this though, because how then could Jeremiah 1:5 fit in with this? "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you" is that saying He knew who he would [...]
Septuagesima Sunday Sermon
In this sermon I referenced Fr. Richard Heilman and his fasting program of Ninevah90 as well as his highly-acclaimed article on Fatima at 100 years. Run so as to win.
Mary’s Relationship to the Trinity
Here's a few things you probably did not know about the Mother of God, especially in her relationship to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. It's a talk I gave to some families in Louisiana today, on the feast of the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary (when she appeared to St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France.)
5th Sunday After Epiphany: Ecclesiology
How can the Catholic Church be so dirty and yet “the Bride of Christ without blemish” at the same time? This is a sermon on Ecclesiology, which is defined as the study of the Church. The most difficult topic to explain in Ecclesiology is how the Church can be both human and divine at the same time.
4th Sunday After Epiphany
What do we do with dryness and anxiety in prayer? We follow the example of St. Therese.
3rd Sunday After Epiphany
Adoration, America and Healing: How America can be healed on the 44th remembrance of Roe vs. Wade.
How to Pray for Your Enemies
The Catholic Church has taught from the days of St. Paul that it is the duty of state to use the death penalty. "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath [...]
Cana’s Wedding Feast
On the Second Sunday after Epiphany, 2017.