Homilies about love

The Spiritual Breath: Why We Need Community to Live Fully

Padre Federico Catón

The homily emphasizes the importance of spiritual 'breathing' and community support, drawing parallels between physical and spiritual well-being. The priest shares personal anecdotes about his sleep apnea and a Cuban nurse who, despite not knowing God, embodies Christian charity through her care for the lonely and sick. He urges the community to extend compassion and combat loneliness, highlighting the unique family-oriented virtues of Hispanic culture and connecting these actions to the work of the Holy Spirit.

Why a Priest Failed the Trinity Class (and What He Learned About God's Love)

Father Geneito

The priest shares his personal struggle with understanding the Holy Trinity, emphasizing that its core mystery is God's unconditional love for us. He argues that recognizing this love transforms prayer from an obligation to a conversation, obedience from a burden to a response of love, and fosters trust in God's plan even amidst suffering. He illustrates this with personal anecdotes and the experience of Vietnamese refugees, highlighting that even in the face of profound suffering, the ultimate truth is that we are loved by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Your Identity is in Your Relationships: Lessons from the Holy Trinity

The homily explores the Holy Trinity as the central doctrine of the Church, emphasizing that God's identity is defined by relationships (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). It challenges listeners to understand their own identity not by what they do or superficial attributes, but by their relationships and how their love spills out to create life and build the Kingdom of God, reflecting the Trinitarian love.

The Whispers of the Holy Spirit: Finding Peace in Grief

The homily, delivered by a Deacon, focuses on understanding the Holy Trinity and the active, often overlooked, role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. It uses analogies to explain the Trinity and emphasizes God's unconditional love and the gift of choice in salvation. A personal story illustrates how the Holy Spirit guides us through whispers, leading to peace and purpose, even in difficult situations like grief.

How a Father's Dying Moments Revealed the Holy Trinity

The homily explores the mystery of the Holy Trinity through the lens of human relationships, emphasizing love, understanding, and respect. The priest shares a deeply personal story about his father's passing, highlighting a moment of profound family unity and peace that transcended past conflicts, serving as a reflection of the Trinitarian love we are called to embody in our own lives.

El Secreto Más Íntimo de Dios: Eres Su Hijo Amado

Padre Michael Nixon

The homily uses a personal anecdote about the priest's mother's pregnancy to illustrate the revelation of God's intimate secret: the Holy Trinity. It emphasizes that God, as a loving Father, invites us to participate in His eternal communication of love, countering the devil's lie that we are orphans. The core message is that through Christ and the Holy Spirit, we are adopted into God's family as beloved children.

The Enduring Faith of Japan's Hidden Christians

Father Francis

The homily recounts the dramatic history of Christianity in Japan, highlighting how the faith persisted for 250 years despite intense persecution and isolation, without priests or sacraments. The priest attributes this resilience to the Japanese Christians' deep, felt experience of God's overflowing love, which is at the heart of the Holy Trinity. He emphasizes that this divine love is the only force powerful enough to sustain a community through the darkest trials.

Beyond 'I Believe': Are You Willing to Get in God's Wheelbarrow?

The homily focuses on the profound meaning of John 3:16, emphasizing that God's love is perfect and unconditional, unlike human love. It challenges listeners to move beyond mere intellectual acceptance of God's existence to a complete, committed trust, illustrating this with the story of Charles Blondon the tightrope walker and the Greek word 'pistuo' for belief.

El Amor de Dios y la Felicidad: Lecciones de la Santísima Trinidad

The homily emphasizes that God is love and that true happiness comes from loving and being loved, not from material possessions or individualistic pursuits. The priest uses the mystery of the Holy Trinity as a model for communion and family, urging listeners to combat indifference and loneliness by fostering love, solidarity, and community, especially within the family. He highlights the importance of parental love for children's happiness and encourages seeking God's wisdom and presence in all life's challenges.

The Trinity's Perfect Love: Why God Loves Everyone Equally

The homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity emphasizes that God's love for all people is perfect, unwavering, and equal, regardless of their actions. The priest illustrates this by posing the question of how much love it would take to sacrifice one's only child, linking it to the cross, and shares a poignant story of an elderly woman singing lullabies through a wall to a crying baby, symbolizing God's constant, unseen presence and care for everyone.

El Amor de Dios: ¿Por qué no podemos amar a nuestros enemigos?

Padre Esteban

The homily emphasizes that true Christianity is not about being a 'good person' or following rules, but about recognizing one's inability to love and forgive on their own, and thus receiving the Holy Spirit to experience God's unconditional love. The priest argues that this divine love enables one to love even enemies and find true happiness, contrasting it with the world's self-centered pursuit of happiness and the superficial understanding of faith that often alienates young people.

Trinity Sunday: The Unspeakable Love of God Revealed Through a Father's Trembling Lip

Father Michael Liver

The homily, delivered on Trinity Sunday, uses the recent ordination of six new priests as a powerful analogy for understanding the Holy Trinity. The priest recounts the emotional exchange between a newly ordained son and his stoic father, highlighting how the father's trembling lip and a shared sigh revealed profound love, mirroring how God the Father's face is revealed through the Son and the groaning of the Holy Spirit. The core message is that the Trinity is not meant to be intellectually dissected but rather encountered and embraced as an immeasurable mystery of love and mercy that renews us.

How John 3:16 Led Me to Priesthood and the Sacred Heart

Padre David Arcila

The homily emphasizes the profound love of God, as revealed in John 3:16, and connects it to the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The priest shares a personal story of his vocation being sparked by this verse and encourages the faithful to embrace this devotion, especially through the first Fridays, to become instruments of salvation for others and experience deeper spiritual fervor.

Are You Treating God Like a YouTuber? The Trinity and True Relationship

Father Sean Kali

Father Sean Kali reflects on Trinity Sunday, emphasizing that humans are created in the image of God, who is a communion of love. He challenges the modern tendency to live in isolation, contrasting it with Jesus's complete dependence and surrender to the Father. The homily uses the analogy of installing a dishwasher and seeking advice from a spiritual director versus YouTube or AI to illustrate the difference between relational and transactional interactions, urging listeners to cultivate a deeper, dependent relationship with God.

The Mystery of the Trinity and the Power of Mission: A Dominican's Story

Father John Baptist Semugabi

The homily explores the mystery of the Holy Trinity, emphasizing God's nature as merciful, kind, and seeking communion, as revealed through Moses, St. Paul, and Jesus. It highlights the Trinity as a model for human relationships, encouraging acceptance and unity despite individual differences, and stresses that while God is a mystery, the little we know is sufficient for salvation. The second part of the homily is a personal appeal for mission support, sharing the speaker's own story as a product of such generosity and detailing the impact of Dominican friars in East Africa and beyond.

The Holy Trinity: A Dance of Love We're All Invited To

The homily on the Holy Trinity emphasizes experiencing God's mystery through 'imagination' rather than just intellectual understanding. It portrays the Trinity as a dynamic 'dance of love' (pericorasis) that we are invited to join, encouraging us to see God's presence in all aspects of life and to live out knowing, loving, and imagining. The priest uses a personal anecdote about a three-year-old named Mira at a wedding to illustrate God's loving gaze and invitation to 'look' at the goodness around us.

El Amor Incondicional de Dios y Cómo Vivirlo en Familia

Padre Fernando Maldonado

The homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity emphasizes that God's love for humanity is boundless and unconditional, even when people are unfaithful. It stresses the importance of living out this Trinitarian love in daily life through harmony, peace, and humility within families and communities, highlighting that true love is conscious and transformative. The priest shares a personal anecdote about a former inmate seeking redemption, illustrating the Church's call to extend God's mercy to all, regardless of past sins.

The Trinity as a Divine Dance: An Invitation to God's Love

Father Bob

The homily uses the personal story of a dancing couple, Pat and Dave, to illustrate the dynamic, inviting nature of the Holy Trinity. It introduces the concept of 'pericoesis' as a divine dance of love that actively draws all into its joyful movement, contrasting it with attempts to intellectually contain God. The priest emphasizes that experiencing God is found in everyday interactions and acts of love, not just within church walls.

Living as Children of God: Unity, Love, and Forgiveness in a Divided World

Father Reggie

The homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity emphasizes that God is love, and humanity is invited into this Trinitarian life through Jesus Christ. It highlights that we are adopted children of God, called to reflect unity, reconciliation, and charity in our relationships, even amidst disagreements, as a witness to God's presence on earth. The priest shares a personal struggle with loving those who are difficult, underscoring the challenge and importance of extending mercy and patience.

God is Not an Angry Monster: Understanding the Trinity's Love

Padre Jacob

The homily emphasizes that God is pure love, a perfect communion of love (the Trinity), not a wrathful deity to be appeased by sacrifices born of fear. The priest uses a vivid story of ancient people sacrificing to a perceived angry god to illustrate how our natural inclination to fear God is contrary to the Christian understanding of a God who descends from heaven to save us out of love. He highlights that we are called to be temples and priests ourselves, carrying this good news of God's immense, incomprehensible love to free the world from fear, and that our ultimate destiny is to be united within the Trinity itself.