Homily for the Mass for the Convocation of Teachers of the Schools of the Diocese of Fort Worth
Memorial of Saint John Vianney
August 4, 2025
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
Keller, Texas
Numbers 11:4b-15
Psalm 81:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
Matthew 14:13-21
Sing with joy to God our help!
In our Gospel reading, we see the disciples come to Jesus with what they surmise to be a problem. The disciples tell Jesus, “This is a deserted place, and it is already late; dismiss the crowds so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.”
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Homily for the Memorial of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Mass for the Convocation of Teachers of the Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Fort Worth
August 9, 2024
St. Mark Catholic Church
Argyle, Texas
Hosea 2:16bc, 17cd, 21-22
Psalm 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17
Matthew 25:1-13
In today’s first reading from Hosea we hear, “I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. She shall respond there as in the days of her youth, when she came up from the land of Egypt.” These words of the prophet Hosea refer to God’s Chosen People of Israel, calling them to return to fidelity to the covenant that was struck by God with them through the chosen leadership of Moses. The characteristic of the “desert” is not that it is arid and hot, but rather that it is an uncharted wilderness and requires trust on the part of the traveler to navigate the journey.
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Homily for the Memorial of Maximilian Kolbe
Mass for Convocation of Teachers of the Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Fort Worth
August 14, 2023
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
Keller, Texas
1st John 3:14-18
Psalm 116:10-11, 12-13, 16ac-17
John 15:12-16
“Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones. How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good He has done for me?”
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Homily for the Memorial of Saint Dominic – Mass for the Convocation of Teachers of the Schools of the Diocese of Fort Worth
August 8, 2022
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
Keller, Texas
1 Corinthians 2:1-10a
Psalm 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a,10
Luke 9:57-62
In our first reading today, Saint Paul writes to the Church in Corinth, “Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away.” In a recent editorial published in the Los Angeles Times, the author puts forth the position that there “is an inverse relationship between a society’s religiosity and its measurable well-being.” The author continued, “Places like Japan (with no history of Christianity) and Scandinavia (historically Christian but predominantly nonreligious today) take better care of their elderly and have lower murder and poverty rates than the United States of America.”
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Homily for the Memorial of Saint Clare of Assisi; Mass for the Convocation of Teachers of the Schools of the Diocese of Fort Worth
August 11, 2021
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
Keller, Texas
Philippians 3:8-14
Psalm 16:1b-2a, 5, 7-8, 11
Matthew 19:27-29
“I consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the law but that which comes through faith in Christ.” These words of Saint Paul written by him to the Philippians almost two thousand years ago as both a witness and an admonition of his brothers and sisters in the Church at Philippi, are offered to us by the Liturgy of the Church for our meditation as we celebrate this Eucharist on the Memorial of Saint Clare and at the beginning of our convocation of our priests, administrators, and teachers in our apostolate of Catholic education in the Diocese of Fort Worth.
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