Archbishop Lori’s Homilies

February 16, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 6th Sunday

As his Sermon on the Plain moves from happiness to woefulness, Jesus is doing us a big favor. He is saving us from the counterfeit happiness of elusive wealth, satisfaction of our carnal appetites, the merriment of the doomed, evanescent human respect . . . the very things that often prevent us from stretching out...

February 16, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of St. Scholastica, Saint John Paul II Seminary

Just as St. Scholastica prayed with and for her brother St. Benedict, so too may she intercede for all of us on our lifelong journey of being formed in the likeness of Christ and of striving to bring about blessed order in the Church we love so dearly. May God bless us and keep us always...

February 9, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 5th Sunday

Then, sharing in God’s goodness and glory, sharing in God’s worthiness, let us do the work of God, bearing witness to the Lord in our daily life, living in such a virtuous manner that those who encounter will see in us something appealing, something worthy, something they’ve been looking for.

February 7, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Black History Month Mass

History is important. It matters. Black History matters. It is important to know about the lives of people who lived before us. To know what they faced. To know how they struggled. To know the heroes. Black History Month is designed to help us do that –whether you are in elementary school, high school, or...

February 3, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of the Presentation, Installation of Fr. Francis Ouma

Just as in this Holy Mass we celebrate the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, so too we celebrate the official “presentation” of Father Francis Ouma as your pastor here at St. Joan of Arc, joined now with St. Patrick’s.

January 29, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Catholic Schools Week Mass, Notre Dame Preparatory

Be confident. A community like NDP shines like a light in the darkness. Even those who do not share our faith can see its beauty and importance. Stay true to who you are! Walk humbly with your God. And the God of truth and love will bless you, now and always!

January 26, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 3rd Sunday, Installation of Fr. Kevin Ewing

Celebrating Fr. Kevin’s installation offers your parish community an opportunity to reflect, not only on his wonderful priestly leadership and service, but also on the mission of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore.

January 19, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 2nd Sunday, Installation of Father Mike Murphy

The pastor and his co-workers are to discern, harness, and harmonize the gifts poured out by the Spirit upon his parish family, gifts given for the sake of the mission of ensuring that the Gospel reaches every person in this segment of the Lord’s vineyard.

January 13, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Baptism of the Lord, Installation of Father Andy Aaron

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...

January 13, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Vocations Discernment Retreat

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.

January 6, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Solemnity of the Epiphany (Solemnidad de la Epifanía), Pastor Installation at St. John the Evangelist Columbia

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.

January 6, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Blessing of Special Exhibit

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of Mother Seton’s canonization. Let us prepare for that great event by reflecting on her life and in God’s grace let us absorb the lessons of her life, such that we too will be accounted pilgrims of hope on the road to holiness.

January 2, 2025

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Solemnity of the Mother of God

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.

December 29, 2024

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

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.

December 26, 2024

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Christmas Mass

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...

December 26, 2024

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Christmas Vigil

As we keep the Vigil of the Lord’s Birth, let us do what Joseph did: When the angel announced to him the very essence of God’s mysterious drama, Joseph took it heart; not only did he hear the Gospel, he acted on it.