Archbishop Lori’s Homily – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Knights of Columbus Board Meeting

Having touched our lives with the joy of the Gospel, Jesus invites us, as he invited the apostles, to join him in his missionary journeys. As followers of Jesus, as members of the Church, as members of our beloved Order, we are called to work side-by-side with the Church’s pastors – in seeking to spread...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – Feast of St. Blaise; Knights of Columbus Board Meeting

Our deeds of service may indeed open the hearts of others to Christ and the Church and surely we should aim to do just that in all our charities. Yet, there is something deeper – when we’re giving coats to inner-city kids, we’re offering them also the love, affection, and respect of Jesus for the...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – Feast of the Presentation; Knights of Columbus Board Meeting

As baptized members of the Church we are called to brighten it with our holiness. As members of the Knights of Columbus family, we united in brightening the Church with the holiness of charity on a massive scale and assist the Church in its world-wide mission of being that lampstand upon which and from which...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – Bon Secours 50th Anniversary Mass of Thanksgiving

In the rough and tumble of daily life, it can be difficult to pray and discern deeply, to see the larger picture, to sort out priorities, to discern the path ahead.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

As we put our trust in Jesus, as we trust in his teaching and open or hearts to him in love, something wonderful happens. Our hearts, our minds, our lives are transformed by the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit. No longer are our lives driven by fear, anxiety, or self-centeredness.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – Giving Thanks to God for the Gift of Life

Let us think of Isaiah and of John the Baptist our Patron who were called in their mother’s womb to announce the coming of the Lord. Thus Isaiah proclaims: “The Lord called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name.” 
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

And to be a follower of Jesus means we’ve opened our minds and hearts to his love; it means we seek to live in the Lord’s presence, under his loving gaze, and allow him to redeem and transform our lives completely and to fill us with a grace, a peace, and joy the world cannot...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – Institution of Acolytes

Jesus demands absolute faith in his Person and in his mission, a mission in which the Father draws us to Jesus lifted high upon the Cross so that we might share in his Resurrection. No longer are we to be redeemed by animal sacrifices – rather it is the Lord, God’s own Son in the...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – “Life Is Beautiful” Mass

The beauty of human life is not merely on the surface. It is a deep, spiritual beauty, inscribed in every human life by the Creator.
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Treating all with respect and dignity is foundational principle of civilized society

When we begin to see and treat human life as disposable or we lose sight of that dignity possessed by all of God’s children, whether they are immigrants, the unborn, the elderly, the homeless, the addicted, or minorities, then we’ve lost our way as a human family and as a nation.
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Conversion to the Gospel of life

Intellectual conversion begins when we start asking questions and challenging assumptions.
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Declaración del arzobispo William E. Lori sobre la cancelación del Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS) para El Salvador

El arzobispo William E. Lori, arzobispo de Baltimore, expresó su decepción y grave preocupación por el anuncio emitido el día de ayer por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional sobre la cancelación del Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS) para El Salvador.
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