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Archbishop Lori’s Priesthood Ordination Homily

You are ministers not of ideas but of realities, the “really real” reality of Christ’s Body broken and his Blood outpoured. Ordination will render you a priest sacramentally, but it is in your life of prayer and virtue that you become priests after Christ’s own heart!
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 10th Sunday, State Deputies Meeting

The effects of original sin, and the shattering of unity that comes with it are real. But the mercy of God revealed in Christ has conquered all things, restoring that unity God intended from the foundation of the world.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the heart of our Mother, a heart pierced by the sword of sorrow at the suffering of her Son, the heart in which she pondered all the things that God had done and would do through her, the heart of a mother and...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Be the first witness to the Sacred Heart, to Charity in the flesh, to Charity that is real. When we do this, we reflect a love that comes from God, a God who is real, a God who is among us, a God who loves us with a heart made of flesh.
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Homily on St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Eucharist National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

In this holy shrine where St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's mortal remains lie, on these grounds where America's first natural-born canonized saint walked, it is right that we should take hold of this great saint's Eucharistic vision. For from the start of her conversion, the mystery of the Eucharist, the true presence of Christ's Body and...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Corpus Christi

We who are mortal, yet have in us the seed of immorality, long for the eternal, a life that we taste in the Eucharist, as we receive into the depth of our being Jesus, the Bread of Life.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Our Lady of Pompeii 100th Anniversary

For 100 years God’s work has been done from this place, for that and for all those who shared in that work, we give God thanks and praise. This work will continue, the mission does on. Today, as we look to the future, we ask God for the grace we need to be his messengers...
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Trinity Sunday

Trinity Sunday is not about “breaking the code”,  a vain attempt make the mystery of God less mysterious or “un-mysterious”. No, it’s about allowing ourselves to be “all lost in wonder” as our eyes of faith behold something of God grandeur and glory, as we experience something of his love, as we allow the love...
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Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time – Mass for Legatus

Belonging to Legatus means living out your discipleship in a missionary way, not only something reserved to some private sphere, but something that impacts the whole of who you are and what you do, privately and publicly, personally, and professionally.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Pentecost Sunday

So let us rejoice and be glad. For there burns within the Church a fire of love that does not go out. There blows in the Church a breeze that never fails to cool the heat, a spring of living water that does not dry up. We have only to open our hearts to the...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Diaconate Ordination

Dear brothers, so soon to be ordained: In St. Matthew, St. Paul, and Pope Francis you have found a path for approaching the mystery about to be enacted in the depths of your spirit. You, as all of us in ordained ministry, must rely on the mercy of God.
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Dedication of Resurrection Church

I joyfully congratulate you on this day of re-dedication and consecration, and as we await the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday, I join you in prayer, in this our upper room, for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit, such that Resurrection Parish will radiate far and wide the glory of God shining...
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