Note: After much delay (which you can read about that here), I’m posting on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, this Gaudete Sunday homily when I was a deacon at the St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church in Hawaiian Gardens, Calif., next to Long Beach.

Centered around Matthew 11:2-11, I gave it once on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, probably for the 6 p.m. Vigil Mass. When we feel that the world is crushing us, find the diamond of Jesus in our hearts.

God bless.