January - 2019

Sermon: The Death Chosen for You (Passion Sunday, March 26th, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 26th

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 19th

Drawn to Repentance and Conversion -- Sermon for III Sunday in Lent

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 12th

Original sin, boredom, and the empire of empty desire (Sermon for the First Sunday of Lent, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, February 26th

Loving Our Enemies (Sermon for Sunday, February 19, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, Februrary 19th

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, February 12th

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Sermon: Bringing Glad Tidings to the Spiritually Poor

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. … Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” The people listening to our Lord must have been shocked to hear Him say these words. St. Luke tells us that, “the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.” At the beginning of His public ministry, kicked off last week with His first miracle at the wedding feast at Cana, He is making clear to them that He is

Sermon: God's Love Cannot Be Earned

Over the course of the year, through the Church’s different celebrations, we get to live the entire earthly life of our Lord. Actually, we really do so in a matter of five months between Christmas and the Ascension. After Christmas, we fast-forwarded to when He was 12 years old for the finding in the Temple, then we rewound again on January 6th for the Epiphany, and now we have made the biggest leap yet, all the way to 30 years old, as Christ is Baptized in the Jordan by His

Sermon: The Gifts of the Magi

Why do you all think that Christmas is such a big deal? We can imagine this question being posed by someone who doesn’t know much about Christianity – maybe someone from China, Iran, or North Korea. But that same question would actually be posed to us by the earliest Christians themselves! To them, today’s feast of the Epiphany was much more important. This ranking of the feast of the Epiphany over Christmas can be seen in the Church’s liturgy. If you follow the Church’s litu

Sermon: The Priority of God in Christian Worship

Most of us are probably familiar with the word “liturgy.” It refers to any public worship of the Church. Normally that means the Holy Mass, but all the sacraments have their liturgies – their official rites that they must follow (the words of absolution pronounced by the priest, the prayers said at a baptism, etc.). “Liturgy” can even refer to ceremonies that are not themselves sacraments such as blessing Holy Water or religious objects. Today we are here to celebrate a parti