Category: Homilies

When God Asks Us to Change

Rembrandt shows Jacob on his deathbed in Egypt, blessing the sons of Joseph. God was faithful to His promise. Joseph closed his father’s eyes. Friday...

Mansit solus

Genesis 32:23-33 And He Withdrew From Them The patriarch Jacob prefigures Our Lord at prayer in the Garden of Gethsemani. “How so?” you ask. When...

Et ero custos tuus

Genesis 28:10-22 I Will Be Thy Keeper For all who, like the patriarch Jacob, journey, and seek, and dream, there is a message of hope...

When the Kingdom of God Comes Nigh

Isaiah 66:10 – 14 Galatians 6:14 – 18 Luke 10:1 – 20 Joy and Thanksgiving Today’s Holy Mass invites us to joy and to thanksgiving:...

Envy, An Ugly Sin

Thursday of the Twelfth Week of the Year I Genesis 16:1-12, 15-16 The painting of Hagar in the wilderness is by Giovanni Lanfranco. It hangs...