Every time we sin, it is as if we have forgotten God who gave us our very lives and sustains our life every moment.
Homilies
Go With Jesus Into the Desert
We all struggle with disordered appetites and unconverted ways of thinking and living. We also demonstrate in our daily lives a lack of charity in our relationships with others.
The Forbidden Fruit and Original Sin
The effects of original sin are passed on to all of Adam and Eve’s descendants. They are transmitted to mankind—to each of us. As head of the human race, what Adam lost he also lost for all men.
Love is Born on Christmas Morn, and the World is Born Anew
The Christian faith claims that God is more than an idea, more than the summit of all the aspirations of the human heart.
The Lord’s Day: A Weekly Return to Easter
The Lord’s Day — as Sunday was called from Apostolic times — has always been accorded special attention in the history of the Church because of its close connection with the very core of the Christian mystery.