Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

The work is so very important. The ministry is so very challenging. The needs are many. But as you leave here take heart: This is God’s work. It will endure. God can take the love and goodness you offer to those who need his healing and multiply that in abundance –such that many may once...Read More

If we have been mentored by others, let us in turn mentor others in the faith, not only by what we say but by the way we think, decide, and live, by our love for others, especially the poor, and by our readiness to give an account of our hope – with respect, gentleness, and...Read More

For like the Apostles in the reading from the Acts of Apostles, Bl. Michael McGivney bore courageous and loving witness to the Risen Lord, and not only that, he created a pathway for the laity to grow in holiness and to bear witness in their own lives to the truth and reality of the Resurrection,...Read More

Divine Mercy is the source of our newness as an Order and remains the reason why we strike a contrast to the society around us.Read More

To believe in this greatest of mysteries requires us to rely on witnesses – on Mary Magdelene, on Peter and John, all of whom we met in today’s Gospel, and on St. Paul who saw the Risen Lord seated at the right hand of the Father, and on the Apostles bearing witness to the Risen...Read More

And let those of us who have been Catholic Christians our whole life long rejoice, rejoice as new members are incorporated into the Body of Christ, rejoice as we are renewed in our own baptism, rejoice as we promise anew to life as children of the light, rejoice as we share the banquet of Christ’s...Read More

So, let us rejoice as Jesus washes our feet and sets before us the Paschal Meal: rejoice in the cleansing waters of baptism and the cleansing tears of penance; rejoice in Jesus’ eucharistic gift of self in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the true presence of the One who loved us to the very...Read More

Less than 24 hours ago, this very Cathedral was packed with faithful from across the Archdiocese to celebrate our annual the Chrism Mass. In the midst of that joyful celebration, little could we have imagined the tragedy that would unfold four hours later, while most of us were asleep, as the cargo ship Dali unexpectedly...Read More

We are not alone. We journey together. Your presence this night in such great numbers testifies to this – our priests, deacons, religious, laity, seminarians and discerners.Read More

This evening may our minds, our hearts, and senses be struck by the beauty of this sacred space and the beauty of these sacred rites.Read More

That Jesus’ hour had arrived is made clear by the request of some Greek converts to Judaism to see Jesus. The prophets who preceded Jesus foretold that the hour of salvation would arrive when the Gentiles would also seek to be converted and to worship the living God.Read More

The vows at the heart of religious life and the promises which I have made as a priest – these are not a boast that we are tougher or better than others in the Church, that we can “take it”, that we can lives differently from others.Read More