Commencement Address for Nolan Catholic High School: Class of 2025
May 25, 2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas
On this momentous day that not only concludes your time as students at Nolan Catholic High School, but more importantly formally launches you towards your continued education in college, we do so amidst the eternal newness of life of the Easter Season won for us by Christ. This newness is further emphasized by the election of our new Holy Father, the first native and citizen of the United States of America to be called to be the Successor of Saint Peter and the Vicar of Christ, Pope Leo XIV.
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Homily for the Priestly Ordination of Isaac Joseph McCracken
May 24, 2025
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Numbers 11:11b-12, 14-17, 24-25
Psalm 111:1, 2, 3, 4
Acts 20:17-18a, 28-32, 36
John 12:24-26
In today’s second reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we hear Saint Paul’s farewell address to the local Church of Ephesus gathered together: Apostles, presbyters, and faithful. Saint Paul with a heart full of hope directly instructs the presbyters of Ephesus, “Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the church of God that He acquired with His own blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own group men will come forth perverting the truth to draw the disciples away from them.”
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Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday
May 11, 2025
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Acts 13:14,43-52
Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5
Revelation 7:9, 14b-17
John 10:27-30
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one”.
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