Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

Your pastorate is named Resurrection – St. Paul. Together – pastor and parishioners – may you bear witness to the new and risen life that is ours by baptism in water and the Spirit, and like St. Paul may you be intrepid missionaries here in Howard County for the glory of God and the sanctification...Read More

It’s my hope and prayer that this time we spend together will be helpful as you seek God’s will, as you seek to discover how the Lord is asking you to put your life at the service of his Church.Read More

We’ve gathered for this installation on the beautiful feast of the Epiphany. We celebrate that day when the Savior of the World was made manifest by a star that attracted the Magi from the East.Read More

Mary’s maternal vocation also extends to you and me. She is Mother of the Church and that means she is our spiritual mother, yours and mine. She loves us and prays for us and understands us more than we know. Continually, she leads us to Jesus.Read More

Just as my parents taught me how to hope, so the Holy Family teaches all of us how to hope, as indeed our Holy Father calls us to be a people of hope, that is to say, a light brightly visible in the darkness of a world searching.Read More

If we would be good citizens, prudent and virtuous, true advocates for peace, doers of charity and justice, lovers of the poor and vulnerable, then let us give proper allegiance to our country, but let our first and ultimate allegiance be to the One who is truly Lord of Heaven and Earth, the One who...Read More

In these days, as we prepare our hearts anew to celebrate the Incarnation, let us ask the Holy Spirit to purify us of sin and to shape and mold our hearts, that we response to our calling as Mary responded to hers: in humility, in a spirit of holiness, full of wonder and awe, a...Read More

Assenting to what seems humanly impossible, going the extra mile when the road has already been long – all of this becomes possible when, at Christmas, we peer into the creche and see the Word made flesh lying in a manger, the very One we receive in Holy Communion.Read More

We are surrounded by “a [heavenly] cloud of witnesses” – the Blessed Virgin Mary, the saints, the angels, your dear father, who are praying with us and for us in the communion of saints. Above all, we have entered into the presence of Christ, the great High Priest.Read More

The Gospel proclaims a message of hope and consolation, as indeed you pastor is called upon to offer hope and consolation to you, his people, especially in time of illness, loss, weakness, and uncertainty.Read More

Advent, as we know, marks the beginning of a new liturgical year, and I could not think of a better way to begin this Year of Grace than by paying you a long overdue visit, and on this occasion, to install officially your pastor.Read More

The Feast of Christ the King invites us, not so much to scrutinize our leaders as to look carefully into our own hearts and ask to what kingdom have we given our allegiance: The kingdom of this world in its many forms or the kingdom of God? Today Jesus says to us anew: “Everyone who...Read More