He calls, we answer

When we read the Gospels every day, we start to notice a pattern. Jesus is on a journey, and as he goes, he is encountering different people along the way. Often, as he is passing by, he sees someone and invites that person to go with him.

Proclaiming our anthropology

The Catholic novelist Walker Percy once said: “Everyone has an anthropology. There is no not having one. If a man says he does not, all he is saying is that his anthropology is implicitly a set of assumptions he has not thought to call into question.”

Lives on fire with love

On Pentecost, the Church was born in the fire of the Holy Spirit! And the Church here in Los Angeles is alive, on fire with the Spirit.

Loving and imitating the Lord like the new St. Charles de Foucauld

Recently, Pope Francis canonized 10 men and women, including a priest that I have long admired and talked about in my preaching and teaching, now St. Charles de Foucauld.

Everything starts with baptism’

I had the blessing of attending the Mass in Rome with Pope Francis for the opening of the 16th Synod of Bishops on the theme: “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission.”

Return to the rosary

May is Mary’s month and in this Easter season we rejoice with our Blessed Mother and entrust ourselves again to her maternal love, as Jesus did.

And in this month, I want to encourage you to renew your love for Mary’s prayer, the beautiful prayer of the rosary.

By his precious wounds

In the quiet of this evening, inside these cathedral doors, we gather. Just as his disciples gathered in that upper room, in those first evenings after Easter.

Christ is alive, the Church is alive!

Earlier this month, we held our Jubilee Year Camino. It was beautiful to see so many of you and your families.