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Archbishop Lori Homily

December 17, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Vespers and Donor Reception

So perhaps what we need for the balance of Advent is a simple little formula for welcoming the Lord, a few simple bywords we can refer to at will . . . so here they are: Let us welcome the Lord with open hearts, open minds, and open arms.
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December 15, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 3rd Sunday of Advent 2025

This is the joy of Gaudete Sunday: that nothing in our lives, not our worst instinct, not our gravest sin, not our most secret thought —nothing is outside the purview of the Redeemer’s healing love, and the Lord never grows tired of working with us and in us.
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December 10, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of St. Juan Diego, Vespers & Donor Reception

Juan Diego’s encounter with Mary speaks to us, nearly 500 years later. Mary’s tender words to Juan give us confidence amid the storms of life.
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December 10, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 2025

Perhaps that is how we should think of tonight’s feast of the Immaculate Conception: the dawning of salvation amid the night of sin and death.
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December 8, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 2nd Sunday of Advent, Church Blessing at St. Joseph-on-Carrolton Manor

The newly renovated church is a metaphor of our Advent journey. Like our reading from Isaiah, it is a link to times past, indeed, to the original church built on land that once belonged to Charles Carroll.
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December 8, 2025

Archbishop Lori: Admission to Candidacy, Permanent Diaconate

May you enter into candidacy with hearts filled with expectant hope and jubilant praise, for the Lord who comes into our midst every day of our lives ready to accomplish in us and through us more than we could ever ask or imagine.
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December 8, 2025

Archbishop Lori: Institution of Acolytes, Permanent Diaconate

In taking this step towards the diaconate, you seek to answer Jesus’ prayer for laborers for the harvest. An acolyte, “akalouthos”, is a follower of Jesus Christ, a disciple, and a co-worker with him in the vineyard.
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December 8, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Catholic Business Network of Baltimore, First Thursday of Advent

When we are doers, not talkers, when we build on solid rock, we experience over time a growth in intimacy with the Lord, a greater sense of communion with his Church, and a greater affinity with the poor with whom Jesus identifies.
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December 2, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 1st Sunday of Advent 2025

On the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of a new liturgical year, the Church offers us a vision of life in Christ that frees us to embrace the future – not merely the near future, but the absolute future, that future we were created for and that we long for.
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December 2, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Installation of Fr. Jason Worley

Indeed, the beginning of a new year of grace sheds light on the most essential role of your pastor and of every pastor, namely, to lead the people he serves to share every more deeply in all that the Lord taught and did to bring about our salvation: the mysteries of his Incarnation, his life...
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November 25, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Blessing of a New Altar, St. Frances Academy Chapel

Let us recall why we are doing this – we are doing it for the same reason that Mother Lange started this school: she was an educator who gave young women of color a chance to claim their dignity, to develop their talents, and to spend their lives glorifying God by their works. Times have...
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November 24, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 100th Anniversary of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer, Solemnity of Jesus Christ King of the Universe

We can learn from St. Clement Mary Hofbauer that spirit of prayer, that undivided love for the Lord, that zeal for the Gospel that made him such a joyful and effective evangelizer – one who proclaimed by word and deed his allegiance to Christ, the only One who is Savior of the Word, Lord of...
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