Sermons on “Virgin Mary”
Assumption of Mary: The Nature of Death
Father Jeremy Miller: Without sin, we would simply see death as the next step on a journey of surrendering, the transition to giving oneself totally to something bigger.
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No Place like Home
Father Jeremy Miller: I feel like most of us during this quarantine, we have a love-hate relationship with our homes.
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Striving for Spiritual 20/20 vision
Father Jeremy Miller: Mary’s motherhood signaled a new beginning for humanity in the birth of Jesus. We also celebrate a new year being birthed within us, a new beginning.
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Assumption of Mary: Body and Soul
Father Jeremy Miller: We celebrate one of the great feasts in our liturgical year that holds up the fullness of Christian life, the fullness of an understanding of the Christian person that is body and soul.
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Our Heavenly Mother is Mary
Father Jeremy Miller: As she gave birth to Christ, she gave birth to all of us in Christ.
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Embracing the Holy Interruptions
Father Jeremy Miller: All the elements of the Christmas Story interrupted the routine and what these figures thought their life was going to look like. And yet because so many of them embraced that holy interruption, we have the great story of Christmas.
View SermonImmaculate Conception: The New Eve
Father Jeremy Miller: Eve’s disobedience became the cause of death for herself and the whole human race, so also Mary’s obedience became the cause of salvation for herself and the whole human race.
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Assumption of Mary: The Dignity of the Body
Father Jeremy Miller: Today’s feast is a wonderful example of the dignity of the body. This feast is also an opportunity to reflect on the great gift of our bodies, which the Lord wishes to redeem in this life and more completely in the life to come.
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Stories of Shared Humanity
Father Philip Smith: And yet as we come here today with Mary, we turn our gaze to that child in a manger in Bethlehem, that child that shows us the beauty and dignity of our shared humanity, the child who can change our stories of war into stories of peace.
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Christmas: Mary and Joseph’s Crazy and Wild Journey
Father Philip Smith: It was a journey which nothing went the way they would have planned or desired. And yet, as we all know, the Christmas story is really a story of hope, joy and peace.
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