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Feb 3, 2019
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In the last two bulletins I have shared with you the need to consider a family-based Catechesis for...
Jan 27, 2019
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Last weekend, I shared with you some of the challenges the Church is experiencing in transmitting the faith to the next generation. From...
Jan 20, 2019
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
This weekend, I’d like to share with you something that concerns each one of us namely, the transmission of our Catholic Faith to the...
Jan 13, 2019
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
Today’s celebration of the baptism of the Lord Jesus culminates the celebration of the Christmas season. It symbolically finishes Jesus’...
Jan 7, 2019
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
There is one thing that every human heart is absolutely starving for: someone to trust. Someone who not only will promise to never let...
Dec 31, 2018
Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
This weekend we’re celebrating the Feast of the Holy Family. When we look at the Holy Family, we easily see several crucial elements...
Dec 23, 2018
Fourth Sunday of Advent
During this last Week of Advent we notice in our daily readings how Mary is indeed the model of how we should be living Advent in...
Dec 16, 2018
Third Sunday of Advent
Advent is a time which helps us relive that profound mystery—the dawning of our salvation when in the fullness of time God sent his Son...
Dec 9, 2018
Second Sunday of Advent
Here is the reflection I gave this past Tuesday of the 1st week of Advent. We long to know Christ better. How we yearn to understand a...
Dec 2, 2018
First Sunday of Advent
But actually, Advent is a time of preparation all its own. Christmas doesn’t actually begin until the first Mass is celebrated on...
Nov 25, 2018
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King of the Universe
But the obedience to which Christ calls us is not the type of “against the grain” subservience that many people think. Jesus explains to...
Nov 18, 2018
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saint John Paul II also taught on the subject of Purgatory in his General Audience of August 4, 1999: “For those who [at death] find...
Nov 4, 2018
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Will the end of this 100 years also in some way mean the end of the time the devil was given, if those times ran fairly parallel? That’s...
Oct 28, 2018
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Convergence of Anniversaries “Reminders are in order. In 2017, Fatima began the celebration of its 100th anniversary. The Communist...
Oct 21, 2018
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… “Even though we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Fatima last Oct. 13, this Oct. 13, 2018, really completes the full 100 years since...
Oct 14, 2018
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s passage, Jesus says that our Heavenly Father will gladly and lovingly provide whatever we need, provided we ask for it. One...
Oct 7, 2018
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Why? Because we have been loved from all eternity by God the Father and have been redeemed at the cost of his Son’s crucifixion and...
Sep 30, 2018
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today, as two thousand years ago, mankind longs to see the face of Jesus. Each one has his own reason: some are in need of healing ––...
Sep 23, 2018
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In this Gospel passage, we see how Simon the Pharisee has an apparent openness to the Lord. He invites him to dine. He observes him. And...
Sep 16, 2018
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
But our faith in Christ must be more than something we say on our lips. It must be something we confess by the way we live. St. James in...
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