Even amid the world’s confusion and mischance, the Risen Lord and the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead are at work in minds and hearts, across the world and in this Archdiocese. There is an extraordinary increase of those who entered the Church this year.Read More

This night is unlike any other night in the Church’s liturgical year. For tonight we celebrate the entire arc of salvation history, from the creation of the world, to the deliverance of the Chosen People from slavery to freedom, to the prophets who foretold the coming of the Christ.Read More

An African American spiritual asks, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” What if we had been there – at Golgotha? What would we have seen? Surely, Jesus crucified summing up in his body our tormented existence.Read More

On Palm Sunday, following the lead of Pope Benedict XVI, I reflected on the extravagance of God’s love in creating and redeeming us. The God who is love expended himself in calling us into being and in saving us from our sins.Read More

God’s love exceeds anything we ever knew or could imagine, and it is revealed afresh this morning in this sacred liturgy as we re-enact Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, there to be tried, condemned, and crucified for us and for our salvation –This is God’s ultimate self-expenditure on our behalf: "To ransom us slaves, God...Read More

The sum of expertise and dedication gathered here is beyond reckoning. Thank you for your love for the Lord, for his Church, and for the young people and families whom you serve and form in faith, virtue, knowledge, and generosity to those in need.Read More

The Lord, who alone has power over life and death, responds, not by immediately performing a miracle but by deepening Martha’s faith, and then by lamenting the death of his friend – for death was never meant to be a part of his heavenly Father’s plan.Read More

Let none of us (myself included) ever take the Lord for granted. He is not merely a prophet, nor merely a man wiser than the rest of men, but the Incarnate Son of God, the Word made flesh, the Crucified Lord, whose truth we cannot fully fathom and whose love exceeds imagination. To know him,...Read More