Homilies for Sunday's and Holy Day's delivered for the parishioners of the Portsmouth Cluster of St Paul's, Church of the Resurrection, St Mary's, and Holy Angels, in Portsmouth Virginia in the Catholic Diocese of Richmond. .
I wasn't supposed to preach this weekend. However, I was called at 10:08am that a priest was needed for a 10am mass, so I went and made something up on the spot.
"Peace is the work of justice and the effect of love: it’s the tranquility of order expressed in the individual as experienced by the community."
This week's homily is a mixture of scriptural reflections based on the readings, along with the Catholic social teaching on a just war keeping in mind current events.
I was asked to preach the funeral of a friend of over 20 years. Such a bitter sweet moment.