I WILL Dance!

A Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy) If you know mercy then you now how to dance. During the Easter Octave it has been my practice to pray with the various Resurrection narratives we are given across the 4 gospels. But this past Easter Octave was different. I was recently reminded of … Continue reading I WILL Dance!

Be Made Visible

A Homily for Easter Sunday 2026 During the last 8 months or so I have been privileged to participate in a program called: Narrative Focused Trauma Care. The focus of this program is to help people address, through narrative, their own experiences of trauma with a view towards then assisting others along the same journey. … Continue reading Be Made Visible

Flannery’s Peacock

A Homily for the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica (32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time 2025) Flannery O'Connor had peacocks! Among other animals on the 1960's Georgia farm on which the Catholic Southern writer lived with her mother Regina, there were peacocks. And because of this the peacock has often been closely related to O'Connor, but … Continue reading Flannery’s Peacock

“Even Now”

An Easter Meditation In this Jubilee Year of Hope, in the buoyancy that so many have felt in the election of our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, and in his early message which seems to hang on two words: "Peace" and "Unity," can we say, where ever we are, in the midst of our … Continue reading “Even Now”

St. Matthias: Witness to the Resurrection!

A Personal Reflection on the Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle About 30 years ago I rather unexpectedly fell in love with St. Matthias! I was up to preach the homily at my religious community's annual, post-academic year retreat on the feast of the apostle. I vaguely remember now preaching on the kinship I felt with … Continue reading St. Matthias: Witness to the Resurrection!

“Enough! the Resurrection”

A Homily for Easter Sunday 2025 The fundamental message of Easter is this: You have to run into the dark if you wish to run into the light. You have to confront your own limitations if you want to come to know the Limitless; face your own brokenness to discover healing; pass through death to … Continue reading “Enough! the Resurrection”