Fr. Greg Heille, OP

Gregory Heille, OP, is Professor of Preaching and Evangelization and Director of the Doctor of Ministry in Preaching at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. He is the author of Preaching Racial Justice, A Year of Vincentian Preaching by Daniel Harris, CM, and The Preaching of Pope Francis

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2 Mar • Purify your vision with love and joy

Jesus told his disciples to take the log out of their own eye before they tried to take a splinter out of their neighbor's eye. If we do the work to purify our own vision in love and joy, St. Paul assures us that this labor will not be in vain.

1 Mar • Following your inner light

Little children believe with their whole person, while adults tend to believe only with their minds. Perhaps this is why Jesus told his disciples that they had to receive the Kingdom of God as a little child. We can relearn as adults to follow our inner light and see the world more truly.

1 Feb • Invited into the Reign of God, again and again

We cannot imagine the Reign of God, and yet we are invited into it every day, again and again, through our engagement with scripture, our service to one another, through liturgy, and through our call to the apostolic life. Let us live in the Reign of God, even though we cannot understand it.

31 Jan • Parables grow the Reign of God within us

Jesus told many parables of the Reign of God. As we listen to them, the Reign of God grows within us so that our actions naturally become reflections of the Kingdom.

3 Jan • Called to be children of God

Jesus is God's own Son. We are called to be children of God, and Jesus points the way to become such.

2 Jan • Holy Friendship

Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, who share this memorial, were great friends. Their friendship brought them each closer to God. Friends can bring us closer to God and friendship itself is a model of what our relationship should be with God.