Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

Confirmation is a standing invitation to you to belong to God, to be a part of the people he has chosen to be his own, to be a person beloved by God and who finds joy in loving God by loving your neighbor.Read More

For the Eucharist we now celebrate is a foretaste of the banquet of heaven, where the glorified Christ, the Lamb once slain, sitting at God’s right hand, is praised, adored, and glorified by angels and saints as his marriage to a redeemed humanity is consummated in unspeakable joy.Read More

Salvation remains a free gift and is not earned by anything we do. Yet, once the Spirit penetrates our depths (to return to the Gospel), the house swept clean is no longer empty but filled with the strength needed to lead a life of free of sin and full of virtue, in a word, a life where the holiness...Read More

Do not be afraid to let your children hear God’s call. Even amid uncertainty—or perhaps precisely in the midst of it—the children who arrive today frightened may tomorrow become the priests, religious women and men, and fathers and mothers who sustain the faith of this country.Read More

The future of evangelization will depend less upon our ability to defend ourselves and more upon our willingness to be transparent, humble and faithful. Humility does not weaken the Church – humility purifies her witness.Read More

Encomendemos a todos los niños migrantes y a sus familias a María y a San José, que conocieron el exilio con el Niño Jesús en brazos. Que ellos nos enseñen a acoger, que hagan de nuestros hogares un semillero de vocaciones, y que Cristo, nuestra luz, brille sobre nosotros en estos tiempos inciertos. Amén.Read More

When you pray a Rosary, offer up your sufferings, go out of your way to cheer up a fellow resident – you are being “sent out” as missionaries right here in St. Martin’s. You, like Therese, can be the hidden spiritual engines of the Church!Read More

Truly, God’s ways are not our ways. He often chooses those who are poor and lowly to be his ambassadors and witnesses in a jaded world. He makes them the bearers of messages of repentance and reform.Read More

And that is why we cling to Jesus – begging for the grace to say “yes” to God every day. No matter how difficult the day. No matter how vexing the people around us. No matter how unpleasant the task at hand may be, or how radically God is asking us to leave our comfort zone.Read More

The work entrusted to you is nothing less than the formation of the human person— forming consciences, instilling virtues, leading many to become disciples of the Lord and active members of the holy People of God.Read More

For what are poverty, chastity, and obedience if not the joyful proclamation that true freedom is found, not in doing whatever we desire, but in becoming the persons God created us to be?Read More

Even if we cannot live exactly as St. Francis did, let us resolve to give ourselves entirely to Christ, so live our vocations and fulfill our daily responsibilities with minds and hearts renewed by prayer, penance, by the sacrifice of Christ offered on this altar about to be consecrated, and by our service to the poor and vulnerable in our...Read More