Sermons & Homilies

The perfection of Christian life is to love our enemies, to forgive those who wrong us. And it is in our failure to forgive that we realize it is only possible with God’s help, it’s only possible if we keep begging God to have mercy on our enemies and on us. This is a lesson we have to learn over and over. But in this struggle we will become children of our Heavenly Father.

All of us are born into this world with a deep and insatiable longing for Paradise. Perhaps we are not even aware of it. Most of us bury it beneath the mire of our passions; we try to satisfy this pure and holy desire with the trinkets and amusements of this fallen world. We become as ships tossed to and fro, as wanderers amid the wasteland of this life, consumed by a gnawing hunger for we know not what. But no matter how we might try to slake our endless, unquenchable desire, we all — like the Prodigal Sons that we are — always end up finding ourselves enslaved to our passions, perishing with hunger, and very, very far away from home.