Latest Homilies
First Sunday of Lent | Primer Domingo de Cuaresma
February 20, 2021
Genesis 9:18-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15
Tomorrow our novices here at San Lorenzo will begin a five-day silent discernment retreat. If they’re anything like I was as a novice, the prospect of a long and silent...
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 7, 2021
Job 7:1-4, 6-7; 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39
There are bad days, there are very bad days, and then there are really, really bad days. Job, whom we encounter in our first reading, had a really, really bad...
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 31, 2021
Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28
In The Gulag Archipelago, the classic memoir of his time as a dissident and political prisoner in the former Soviet Union, Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (d. 2008)...
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 24, 2021
Jonah 3:1-5. 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous short story, A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes provides his assistant Dr. Watson with an important lesson on the difference...
Notes from a Journey - Capuchin Friar John Celichowski