Corpus Christi University Parish Homilies

Father Jeremy Miller: "Unless we have an authentic, healthy self-love, it hurts how we love others. We project onto our love of neighbor the ways that other people have wounded us in terms of loving us."

Fr. Alan Zobler, OSFS: “In our spiritual lives, time and again, that’s what we are asked to do as disciples.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “Are we going to decline the invitation that God wants for us?”

Deacon Justin Moor: “Instead of rejecting Jesus from our lives, we are meant to respond by making him the foundation of our lives around which everything else is built.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “Words can make us feel more virtuous than we actually are. Humility and integrity are the remedies.”

Father Jeremy Miller: "Let God decide how he bestows his blessings and his generosity and his grace. Let's live from that spiritual truth."

Father Jeremy Miller: "Forgiveness is making a choice, choosing to let go of the bitterness, resentment, hatred and anger that we feel about someone that has hurt us. Often, we have a right to have it, but it's choosing to let go of that right to transcend and overcome and rise above that for the sake of our own inner peace and ultimately to want the good for the other person."

Father Jeremy Miller: “If we have to say something hard to someone, we do it in the most loving way possible and making sure that we’re first committed to our own humility and our own integrity before doing so.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “Jesus says if you want to have life, give it away. If you want to gain your life, give it away freely. And if you insist on keeping your life, you’re going to lose it.”

Father Jeremy Miller: Our spiritual houses, our spiritual temples, ourselves, are the place where humanity and divinity are meant to unite.

Father Jeremy Miller: We can’t see God face-to-face until we have faces.

Deacon Justin Moor: “The 5 W questions of who, what, when, where and why help us better understand the important parts of any story. During the story of Peter walking on water to Jesus through the storm, these questions had to be swirling around in Peter’s head and heart.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “We can get so locked in to anticipating the future that we miss what God wants to do right here.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “Sometimes we need guidance to keep us on the right path for the treasure.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “To uproot too quickly, can sometimes cause great instability than what was trying to be repaired.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “Let’s make the garden of our hearts, the soil of our hearts, ready and responsive and conducive to the growth of God’s grace within us.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “We all carry burdens, but the good news is that we never carry them alone.”

Deacon Justin Moor: “With this approach of loving, we see Jesus in each member of our families. This is the moment when we stop letting the way our family members have loved us be the limiting factor in the way we love them.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “Evil multiplies faster than goodness. Vice grows quicker than virtue. Selfishness develops quicker than generous love. But there is a remedy: the grace of Jesus.”

Fr. Jeremy Miller: “I wanted to reflect today on what this feast and the gift of the Eucharist teaches us about the core of God, his heart, and how his heart speaks to our heart on this feast.”