Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

If we are an open book before the Lord, we will relate to others and exercise our responsibilities with greater freedom and authenticity.Read More

You and I both experience the need for a place of solitude, a place of quiet, apart from the world’s sound and fury, apart even from the dusty roads of mission, ministry, and the academy. It is there, alone with the Lord, that we can give voice to our questions, wrestle with our doubts, probe the Word of God more...Read More

But as our nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, I would suggest another saying today – at least for American Catholics: All roads lead to Maryland.Read More

In the Gospel, we see how deeply the Lord loved his own in the world. So deep was his love that he gave them something more than a word of encouragement or a bit of sage advice. Read More

Only when we trust the Lord completely can we live without fear. For by trusting, we give God permission to draw us closer to himself, to purify us, to strengthen us, to fill us with hope, and to grant us a joy that nothing and no one can take away from us. Read More

Fr. McGivney founded the Knights on the very love we celebrate at every Mass: God’s infinite love which he generously lavishes upon us, a love we did not earn, a love we do not deserve, a love God freely gives.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

In the year ahead, let us resolve to move ahead – boldly, resolutely, faithfully, and yes, humbly. 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

As a pastor intent on gathering the flock of God, he put unity and fraternity at the heart of his Order, a unity that flowed from his own union with the heart of Christ, a unity vital for the success of the Church’s mission and the Order’s mission.Read More