Fr. Greg Heille, OP

Gregory Heille, OP, is an Emeritus Professor of Preaching and Evangelization at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. He has a particular interest in racial equity education. He is the author of Preaching Racial Justice, A Year of Vincentian Preaching by Daniel Harris, CM, and The Preaching of Pope Francis

Videos

The Cost and Comfort of Discipleship, for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

While being a "missionary disciple" carries a cost and requires us to take up our cross, Jesus promises that his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

Seeking First the Kingdom and Letting Go of Worry

Storing Up Treasures: A Reflection on Virtue and the Heart

While the world often focuses on material wealth—treasures that moths and decay can destroy—Jesus calls us to store up treasures in heaven.

Corpus Christi: The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ

In 1264, Pope Urban IV called upon St. Thomas Aquinas to compose the prayers and hymns for this new celebration. The hymns Aquinas wrote - including Pange Lingua (with Tantum Ergo) and Panis Angelicus - are still treasured and sung throughout the Church today.

Called to the Mountain—to Believe and to Hope

Fr. Greg connects the mountain of the Ascension in Galilee back to the mountain of the Transfiguration, where Jesus was first revealed in radiant light. Today, that same light is entrusted to us.

Probing the Deeper Meaning: Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos

In Acts 18, we meet the missionary couple Priscilla and Aquila, who take a talented teacher named Apollos under their wing.