Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

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

There in his glorified humanity he displays the wounds of his Passion, and with these wounds of love and glory pleads for us at the right hand of God.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

Jesus Christ was the Ambassador, the Legate, sent by the Father to reveal and unleash his merciful love in the world.Read More

You have sought to develop and strengthen your spiritual life, so that you will radiate the truth and love of Christ in your life and ministry.Read More

We depend on one another, support one another, complement the gifts and talents of one another, and together, out of many living stones there emerges the unified and beautiful vision – Christ, united to his people, a people who announce with joy how Christ called them from darkness to light.Read More

All of this prepared us to listen as Christ speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd, who opens the door to eternal life for us and who is himself the way.Read More

From the grace of the Holy Spirit we derive not merely human satisfaction and a fleeting happiness, but irreplaceable joy and peace and a depth of love beyond amazement.Read More

3rd Sunday of Easter A Confirmation – Cathedral of Mary Our Queen April 19, 2026   Confirmation: Not a Standalone Event! I am very happy to be with all of you today, to pray with you, to continue celebrating Christ’s Easter victory over sin and death, and in the joy of the Resurrection, to confer...Read More

3rd Sunday of Easter St. Carlos Acutis Camping Retreat O’Dwyer Retreat House April 18, 2026   First, let me say how happy I am to be with all of you this afternoon. This retreat has gotten a lot bigger – there are 168 young people on this retreat and 145 leaders and family members. We...Read More