Sermons on “Humility”
Welcoming with Open Arms
Father Jeremy Miller: I’ve always thought that these two glass peaks look like arms reaching out across Dorr Street to campus, embracing the students, the faculty, the staff, anyone that comes into this building, with the arms of God and the arms of this community of faith who embraces them.
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Tapestry 12: Oscar Romero
Father Jeremy Miller: Romero said we cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
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Tapestry 9: Mohandas Gandhi
Father Jeremy Miller: Gandhi teaches us that if we want to reform the world, we have to start with our own heart.
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Tapestry 6: Thomas Aquinas
Father Jeremy Miller: He’s known as a philosopher-theologian principally, but I think the primary way to see St. Thomas Aquinas is as someone who was obsessed with friendship with God.
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Tapestry 4: Francis of Assisi
Father Jeremy Miller: He was called to a life of simplicity and poverty and humility to revive and to rebuild the Church as a spiritual entity.
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Tapestry 2: Augustine of Hippo
Father Jeremy Miller: He is such an important figure in our intellectual tradition. What I’m more interested in though is his moral conversion, his spiritual conversion and the fact that it was a journey, it was a process.
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Characters of the Easter season
Father Jeremy Miller: All five of these characters have a place in the Easter story and they all belong at that empty tomb worshiping the risen Christ.
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Easter: We Belong Here
Father Jeremy Miller: However we got to the empty tomb this morning, we have a place there.
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Holy Thursday: It’s all about your feet
Father Jeremy Miller: This night is about giving God both: the feet as an expression of our self-reliance and pride, our willingness to do our own thing, and the feet as an expression of our vulnerability.
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Palm Sunday: The Example of the Second Criminal
Father Jeremy Miller: That second criminal gives us a path forward out of this human temptation I think we have to scapegoat, to deflect attention away from ourselves and carrying our cross as well.
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