Archbishop Lori Homily

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Blue and Red Mass 2022

You, our first responders – police officers, firefighters, public safety officials – and all the civic officials and administrators who support them – you strive each day to be ambassadors of justice here in the City of Baltimore and throughout the State of Maryland.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Rite of Institution of Lectors

My warmest congratulations to those of you about to be instituted in this ministry as also to your wives and families who share with you this journey of formation, which, God willing, will lead to diaconal ordination in the not-too-distant future.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Priests’ Convocation; Mass of the Holy Spirit

If all this seems to be unrealistic, unreachable, hovering at 30,000 feet, perhaps you and I have only to recall brother priests of Baltimore who have been “bright lights”, beacons of the Spirit, in our midst.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Inaugural Mass; Terry Sawyer

In an age of cultural and intellectual fragmentation, Loyola is poised to render still greater service, both to the Catholic intellectual tradition and to the wider culture, by helping us and our contemporaries to integrate faith and reason, and helping all of us to overcome dead-end, polarizing ideologies, of the right and of the left,...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of the Most Holy Rosary

As this Mass concludes, the Supreme Knight will install new members of the Board. The installation ceremony, though brief, outlines the high responsibilities for the good of the Order entrusted to each of you.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Wednesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time

In this year when my classmates and I celebrate our 45th anniversary as priests, I am delighted to come home to the Mount to offer this holy Mass.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Funeral of Msgr. Joseph Luca

Among Msgr. Luca’s favorite days every year was March 19th, the Feast of St. Joseph, his patron saint.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Votive Mass for the Progress of Peoples

It is a pleasure to welcome all of you to this historic church, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (a catchy title to be sure), or as it is more commonly called, “The Baltimore Basilica” or “America’s First Cathedral.” Allow me a word about this unique place...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Funeral Homily for Fr. Henry Kunkel

We will miss our good and faithful priest. He made an indelible imprint on our lives. Father Henry, we thank you with all our hearts. May you rest in the peace of Christ.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time; 150th Anniversary of St. Wenceslaus Parish

As we commemorate these great saints, let us unite as a community of faith in asking for the grace to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus who indeed gives light to our eyes.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Filipino Festival

As we commemorate these great saints, let us unite as a community of faith in asking for the grace to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus who indeed gives light to our eyes.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Admission to Candidacy

“Getting there” is a life-long process but now with fixed points along the way: lector, acolyte, and God willing, diaconal ordination – and your ongoing formation as deacons, a formation that ceases only when you enter into heavenly glory.
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