Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

After man born blind was cured, he bore witness to the Lord, just as St. Patrick did after he received the gift of faith. Let us ask the intercession of St. Patrick, that our vision of faith may be luminous, and that we, like him, might bear witness to our faith among family members, friends,...Read More

How we pray reveals what our relationship with God is like. In fact, prayer is more than a way of enhancing our relationship with God – prayer is our relationship with God, that time when we acknowledge him to be Lord, those moments when he reveals us to ourselves, those moments when we discern what we...Read More

Dear catechumens, you see what is going on in this Gospel: the Samaritan woman experiences purification and enlightenment at a well, a well which stands for the baptismal font, that flowing fountain at which you are soon to be cleansed and reborn.Read More

Just as Jesus manifested his glory to the Apostles before his Passion and Death,  so he reveals his glory to us today so that we will neither flag nor fail in our Lenten journey to Calvary.Read More

When we embrace the poor and lowly, encountering them not as a problem to be solved but as persons made in the image of God, then it is that the Law of Love is fulfilled in us.Read More

Behind the text of Matthew’s Gospel is the bedrock truth of our faith, that this obscure Rabbi from Galilee was, and is, the Incarnate Son of God: He is the Word made flesh, the very embodiment of the Torah, not as it is written on tablets of stone, but as it is inscribed on the...Read More

He made you what you are and reminds you who you are: YOU are the salt of the earth. YOU are the light of world. Filled with the love that we receive from this altar:  Go be who you are.Read More

Your pastor is a disciple before he is a shepherd. He is to model what it means to live the Beatitudes. And his chief responsibility is to place at your disposal all the means necessary for you to grow in discipleship.Read More

Que, como San Juan Bosco, sepamos vivir las Bienaventuranzas con alegría y valentía, siendo signos del Reino de Dios en medio de un mundo herido, pero profundamente amado por Dios.Read More

Tonight’s liturgy presents us with parallels between David and St. Agnes and between David and Agnes and ourselves. Read More

Together we shall march, just as Martin Luther King, Jr., marched. Together we shall march into a future full of hope. Together we shall stand, courageously and peacefully, for justice.Read More

In a nutshell, here how today’s Scriptures illuminate your pastor’s ministry: In some respects, he is to be like Isaiah the prophet; in others, like John the Baptist; and most importantly of all, he is to be like Jesus.Read More