Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

Building a just society requires sacrifice, perseverance, and a willingness to place human dignity and the common good above personal advantage. This is why we celebrate the Red Mass: to ask the Holy Spirit to guide us because we know that professional expertise alone is not enough.Read More

This is the feast day not only of the unsung heroes who made it to heaven. It is our feast day too! We, no less than they, are called to sainthood. What’s more, that joyful throng in heaven is rooting for us, cheering us onward, and hoping one day to welcome us into their company!Read More

God does not measure your worth by the mistakes you’ve made or by the seat you’ve been assigned by a court. He measures your worth by his love for you. He wants to raise you up, give you a peace that surpasses understanding, and to use your life, here and now, to reflect his light to those around...Read More

The assumption of an office or the bestowal of a promotion must also signal an increase of love for the Lord who died and rose in Jerusalem, and a deepened faith in the God who can bring forth grace from sin, triumph from tragedy, life from death. Surely it means an increase of love for those who dwell in...Read More

With Christ living in us and among us, we can no longer live for ourselves but we live for others. When we give of ourselves as God has given to us, we give him glory.Read More

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

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

We are here to strengthen one another. To celebrate our faith. To reflect. To discuss. To discern. To share. And to return the mission field with renewed confidence.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

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

The altar before us is not merely a symbol of Christ. It is the place where Christ’s sacrifice is sacramentally made present. Here heaven and earth meet. Here Christ gathers His people into communion with Himself.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