Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

The Spirit Jesus came into the world – and he now comes into your lives – to free you from everything that could hold you back from friendship with God and friendship with others.Read More

Our faith teaches us that Jesus had a human heart. His heart is the living sign of God’s infinitely generous and merciful love.Read More

Today we place the Church in the United States, and this nation we love, into the Sacred Heart of Jesus.Read More

And as America observes its 250th anniversary, pray that it will always be “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Vivat Jesus!Read More

It is because of his humility, both divine and human, that Jesus courageously led the way into the valley of death, riding our humanity like a chariot into the abyss of sin and death, defeating Satan and his minions, not with the force and bluster, but with a sacrificial love, infinite in its goodness and powerful in its...Read More

The truth is that many are coming to the Church to escape ennui – the same old diatribes and insults hurled on social media, the oft-repeated resentments, weariness from having to choose sides, fatigue induced by being measured by “likes” or bullied by “dislikes”, fatigue brought on by the isolation and loneliness endemic in our culture.Read More

The Spirit works in each of our hearts and in the whole assembly, enabling us to offer to God our work of heart and hand, indeed, our very selves, enabling us thereby to become more like the Christ whom we receive, so that the Father can see and love in us what he sees and...Read More

The Spirit will help you to know how much Jesus loves you, and how to share in that love by participating in Sunday Mass and in going to Confession regularly for the forgiveness of sins.Read More

It turns out that joy is not something we manufacture, something we create. Joy is one of the outcomes, one of the results, one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit.Read More

Piensen en aquellos momentos de silencio en los que el Señor tocó por primera vez sus corazones, y los invitó a seguirlo más de cerca en el servicio a su Iglesia.Read More

But at base it is the Lord himself who called you as his heart spoke to yours, in moments of quiet prayer, with the sound and fury of the world kept at bay.Read More

But a priest, who is truly a friend of the Risen Lord and his witness in the world, will focus primarily on the people who clamor for his attention, and his overriding concern will be to produce in them a harvest of holiness, the good and lasting fruit of which Jesus speaks in the Gospel.Read More