Catholic Preaching

During my diaconal ordination, Cardinal Edmund Szoka gave me the following instruction from the Ordination Rite as together we gripped the Book of the Gospels: "Receive the Gospel of Christ, whose herald you now are. Believe what you read. Teach what you believe. Practice what you teach." Those words have never lost their resonance. Since that day -- October 8, 1998 -- I have tried to live up to that commission to be a "herald of the Gospel," by striving to teach what the Church believes, to practice what I preach to others, and to spread with joy and enthusiasm the truth Christ has entrusted to His church -- in and out of season, in and out of the pulpit. This podcast is a chronicle of those attempts.

7.9.25 Homily for Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I 07/10/2025

7.8.25 Homily on Tuesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, I 07/09/2025

7.7.25 Homily for Mass of the Holy Spirit for the Tertio Millennio Seminar in Krakow 07/08/2025

7.6.25 Homily for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 07/06/2025

6.26.29 Homily on the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul 06/29/2025

6.26.25 Christian Mission and Integral Human Development at Acton University 06/26/2025

6.26.25 Homily on St. Josemaria Escriva and the Call to Holiness 06/26/2025

6.25.25 Entrepreneurial Vocation at Acton University 2025 06/25/2025

6.22.25 Corpus Christi Homily (C) at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, NY 06/22/2025

6.21.25 The North American Martyrs and Christian Heroism, on the Centenary of their Beatification 06/21/2025

6.11.25 Missionary Identity and Spirituality of the Priest, Part II 06/12/2025

6.11.25 Missionary Identity and Spirituality of the Priest, Part I 06/12/2025

6.5.25 Homily for Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter 06/06/2025

5.29.25 Homily for Ascension to Seminarians at the Altar of the Tomb in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican 05/30/2025

4.18.25 Conclusion of the Seven Last Words 04/18/2025

4.18.25 Seventh Word from the Cross, Father, Into Your Hands, I Commend My Spirit 04/18/2025

4.18.25 Sixth Word from the Cross, It is Finished! 04/18/2025

4.18.25 Fifth Word from the Cross, I Thirst 04/18/2025

4.18.25 Fourth Word from the Cross, My God, My God, Why Have You Abandoned Me? 04/18/2025

4.18.25 Third Word from the Cross, Mother, Behold Your Son 04/18/2025

4.18.25 Second Word from the Cross, Truly I Tell You Today, You Will Be With Me in Paradise 04/18/2025

4.18.25 First Word from the Cross, Father Forgive Them For They Know Not What They Do 04/18/2025

4.18.25 Introduction to Seven Last Words 04/18/2025

4.9.25 Homily for Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Seminary of Xuan Loc, Vietnam 04/08/2025

4.3.25 Homily for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent 04/03/2025

4.2.25 Giving Reason for the Hope Within Us, Keynote for the Southeast Regional Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies 04/03/2025

3.31.25 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and the Preaching of the Missions 03/31/2025

3.31.25 Homily for Monday of the 4th Week of Lent, Missionaries of Mercy as Pilgrims of Hope 03/31/2025

3.25.25 Homily for the Annunciation 03/25/2025

3.24.25 TPMS Midwest Regional Keynote on the Jubilee of Hope and the Missions of the Church 03/25/2025