From the Archbishop

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Chrism Mass

Like your neighbors in Baltimore City and the 9 counties that make up our local church, you have weathered a most difficult year, a year unlike any other in recent memory.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Palm Sunday

Come, let us walk throughout this Week called Holy with the Lord in a triumphal procession that will bring us to the Upper Room for the Last Supper, and all along the way of the Cross that leads to that moment at the center of history when, for our salvation, Christ our King conquered sin...
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Remembering Cardinal James Gibbons

More than any other Catholic, not excepting Archbishop John Carroll, Cardinal James Gibbons was embraced by his country. He was personable, outgoing and seldom without a smile.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Funeral Homily for Father Phillip A. Widmann

Fr. Phil expressed this longing for God in his daily prayer, especially the Divine Office, the recitation of the Rosary, and his devotion to the Eucharist.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Fifth Sunday of Lent

A heart that is contrite, a heart that is reconciled, a heart that is renewed – this is the heart that will share fully in Jesus’ hour, this is the heart that will take up its cross and bear the good fruit of the Gospel, this is the heart that will rejoice at Easter with...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Funeral for Lucia Love

It is said that we bring into eternity only what we have given away on earth. If so, Lucia brought with her into eternity a faith that shined brightly because she spent so much of her life sharing it with others.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)

Even as we rejoice, however, let us not forget that Lent is still not over. We have two full weeks of Lent ahead of us, followed by Holy Week before we arrive at the full-fledged joy of the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday. For most of us, that means there is still a lot of...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 100th Anniversary of the Death of Cardinal Gibbons; 3rd Sunday of Lent

This month, the Archdiocese of Baltimore observes the 100th anniversary of the death of James Cardinal Gibbons, the 9th Archbishop of Baltimore.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 3rd Sunday of Lent

This is how Jesus cleanses our inner and outer temple, overturning whatever blocks or obscures the holiness of God in us while expanding our hearts to reflect his holiness more and more completely by loving our neighbors, including our enemies, and especially those in need.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 2nd Sunday of Lent

What the Apostles witnessed atop Mount Tabor was the glory of Jesus’ divinity. Beneath his humanity, beneath Jesus’ ordinary human appearance was his identity and his glory as God’s eternal and only-begotten Son.
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Archbishop Lori’s Talk: Reflections on the Discernment of St. Joseph

Most of us discover our vocations gradually, over time, with multiple influences. All of us have opportunities for discernment, such as this retreat, and for the formation of every dimension of lives, which is what happens at seminary.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 2nd Sunday of Lent; Discernment Retreat

The Apostles were overwhelmed and mystified by the glory of Jesus, and so too our hearts should be, as the Book of Revelation says, “all lost in wonder”.
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