Anniversaries are important to married couples, to priests and religious, to dioceses, and indeed to parish families like St. Ann’s, and I am delighted to take part in your 150th anniversary.Read More
Gathered in convocation, as we renew the promises made on ordination day, let us take heart from faith of those who have gone before us, let us find our joy in the Person of Christ whose heralds we are, and then let us engage those around us with gentle but persistent persuasion, not so much...Read More
In this Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame de Quebec, let us seek the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose shared like no other in the Passion and Death of Christ, and so reflects the light of Christ more brightly than anyone.Read More
Let us pray God’s comfort and healing reaches all who experienced injury and terror in Tuesday’s shooting on the historic Morgan State University campus.Read More
May she who gave birth to the Savior and followed him unreservedly, lead you each day to the Heart of her Son, the abyss of love, from which your vocations and your ministry take their origin, meaning, and goal. Mary, Our Queen: pray for us!Read More
Los esfuerzos de la Iglesia para erradicar el flagelo del abuso sexual infantil de nuestras parroquias, escuelas y ministerios, y para brindar atención y compensación a los perjudicados, no comenzaron con la reorganización del Capítulo 11 de hoy, y nuestros esfuerzos ciertamente no terminarán aquí.Read More
I’m happy to join you in celebrating the bicentennial of your parish. What an opportunity to grow in our appreciation of the heritage of this parish!Read More
So as we take to heart today’s Scripture readings and rejoice and give thanks to bless and dedicate the Visitor’s Center and Museum, let us resolve that St. Elizabeth Ann Seton become better known, that the way she lived the vocation of marriage and family and religious life be a model for married couples and...Read More