Archbishop Lori Homily

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: White Mass 2025, 30th Sunday

Humility, love for the poor, zeal for the truth – three qualities drawn from the Scriptures and exemplified in your professional lives and in the healthcare institutions you represent. Thank you for your service.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 25th Anniversary – Dedication of St. John Neumann

We’ve gathered this afternoon to celebrate the blessings of these past 25 years, as this “mission church” has proved itself to be truly a missionary church that has reached out in welcome to everyone seeking a spiritual home, and in a special way, to those who have recently come to the United States.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Jesuit Community of Loyola, Monday of 29th Week

We are living in days that call for the unconquerable faith of Abraham, and likewise, the faith of Ignatius and the Jesuit missionaries and martyrs, not to mention my predecessors who helped lay the foundations of the Church in these United States.
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Archbishop Lori’s Address: Faith, Freedom, and Friendship – Jesuit Lessons for America at 250

The United States remains an unfinished project—it is a country still being born. So too, the Jesuit mission here is unfinished—it is a story still being written by the Spirit. As we look to the next 250 years, I would humbly suggest that the Jesuits’ task is, not to dominate the national conversation, but to...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Red Mass 2025

As members of bench and bar, as advocates and ministers of justice, you are uniquely positioned to help our nation move ahead, in genuine solidarity, in truth and freedom, with an unwavering commitment to the common good and human flourishing. You are in a position to help people, especially those in need, to believe once...
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Archbishop Lori’s Reflection: Life is Beautiful Mass

But faith and reason, pulling together, teach us that there is a beauty deeper than appearances, a beauty that is deeply embedded in every human being. This beauty is beheld by the Divine Eye – it is beheld in the sight of God, the God who is Creator and Redeemer of each person without exception.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Knights of Columbus Pilgrimage, Basilica of St. Mary Major

So let this venerable icon symbolize our hope today. We are, after all, Roman Catholics. We are thus embraced in Mary’s title, “health of the Roman people.” On this, the final day of our pilgrimage of hope, let us entrust to her every worry, every concern, every weakness that we brought with us from across...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

We are in Rome as pilgrims celebrating the Jubilee of Hope. Let us see in the Rosary a Marian prayer that captures and expresses “Christ in [us], our hope of glory” (Col 1:27).
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Mass at the Altar of the Chair

As the family of the Knights of Columbus, we have restored the symbol of Peter’s confession of faith. During this pilgrimage of hope, may the truth and reality of Peter’s confession be fully restored in us, so that it might shine forth daily with the renewed splendor of virtue and holiness.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of St. Francis of Assisi

What ties together these two saints for us concretely is the image of the Sacred Heart which we, the Knights of Columbus, restored. As we gaze upon the open heart of the Savior, the abyss of charity, we see abundant room for a Francis of Assisi, for an Ignatius of Loyola, for a Blessed Michael...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of San Lorenzo Ruiz and San Pedro Calungsod

All three witnesses: Paul, Lorenzo, and Pedro urge us never to be discouraged and never to give up our faith, but to keep our eyes fixed on the prize of eternal life, and to anchor our confession of faith in Jesus’ own testimony before Pilate.
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