Homilies
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Our homilies will help you discover the peace and love of Christ, which the modern world has largely forgotten. Check in here often for the latest homilies and grow in your knowledge of Scripture, the Mass and the spiritual life.
Homilies
Sep
18
September 18, 2023
24th Sunday of Ordinary Time 9/17/2023
Abbot Placid Solari
In this homily, Abbot Placid explores the need for forgiveness, and quotes St. Dorotheos of Gaza’s advice to monastics on fraternal charity.
Sep
12
Dec
04
December 4, 2022
Second Sunday of Advent, December 4, 2022
Fr. Elias Correa-Torres, O.S.B.
Our first reading, on this second Sunday of Advent, presents us one of the most well-known and beautiful passages of the Old Testament concerning the coming of the Messiah. What […]
Oct
16
October 16, 2022
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time October 16, 2022
FR. ELIAS CORREA-TORRES, O.S.B.
Some parables recorded in the gospels come to us with no interpretation provided at all, we are left to ponder what they might mean for us. Others come with an […]
Sep
18
September 18, 2022
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 18, 2022
FR. DAVID BROWN, O.S.B.
Today’s gospel is a parable which occurs only in St. Luke’s Gospel. At first reading, the parable seems clear and straightforward, but it’s not. It raises all sorts of questions, […]
Aug
21
August 21, 2022
Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time August 21, 2022
FR. CHRISTOPHER KIRCHGESSNER, O.S.B.
It seems that at the most convention of devils there was serious concern about the number of people who were entering hell. The number had been falling for years. So […]
Aug
07
August 7, 2022
Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time August 7, 2022
FR. DAVID BROWN, O.S.B.
Some years ago, I read a joke about a wealthy widower in a small town who had died. Before his death, he had invited his family to pick out what […]
Jul
12
July 12, 2020
Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time July 12, 2020
FR. ELIAS CORREA-TORRES, O.S.B.
Today’s readings speak to us of God’s Word and transformation, the transformation that can be wrought in us by God’s word if we are open to it. This transformation is […]
May
25
May 25, 2020
The Ascension of the Lord, May 24, 2020
It appears that this great feast of the Lord’s Ascension, the second of the great Easter Feasts, risks being overshadowed by the celebrations of the Resurrection at Easter and the […]
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