A homily for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 26, 2025
Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18, Luke 18:9-14
About 600 years before Jesus called out the Pharisees and other leaders of the people as hypocrites, the Greek moralist Aesop told a fable about a frog and an ox.
A homily for the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, June 9, 2024
Gn 3:9-15, 2 Cor 4:13—5:1, Mk 3:20-35
The first time I saw someone talking on a cellphone wearing wireless earbuds, I thought the person was … uh … possibly mentally ill. You see, they weren’t merely having what looked like a conversation with their self; they were arguing.
Loudly. Passionately. Did I mention loudly?
With vigorous hand gestures to no one in sight, some of them NSFW.
As were many of the loud words.
The earbuds were so small that I didn’t spot them right away.
A homily for the First Sunday of Lent, February 26, 2023
Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7, Rom 5:12-19 , Mt 4:1-11
Out in the backyard of my boyhood home in Lincroft, my brothers and I built a treehouse. Not just any treehouse. This was a classic, enough to make the Swiss Family Robinson jealous.
A homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Cycle C, April 3, 2022
Is 43:16-21, Phil 3:8-14, Jn 8:1-11
We remember Alexander Pope’s most famous quote:
To err is human; to forgive, divine
And in this Lenten season of repentance and the seeking of forgiveness, we admit that we err occasionally. Or more than occasionally.
And we take comfort in knowing that our loving God forgives us and welcomes us home every time.
But there’s another quotation from this 18th Century writer that relates to all three of our passages from Scripture this weekend:
