De hecho, cuando diciembre da paso al clima invernal, la oscuridad y las largas noches, el Adviento marca el comienzo de la luz del amor de Dios. Y en la oscuridad, el amor de Dios brilla aún más intensamente por la gracia del Espíritu Santo.Read More

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. It is an opportunity for us to give thanks to the Lord for the blessings he has showered upon our land and for the blessings we have experienced in our families and in our network of relationships. It is an opportunity to express our appreciation for those with whom we...Read More

Just as loving families keep alive the memory of those who have died, let us continue to cherish the memory of these our deceased brothers – remembering gratefully what the Lord enabled them to accomplish, remembering that we build on what they have left us, thanking God for their lives and their priesthood.Read More

For now we pray that we, all of us, may shine with that same splendor as we bear witness to the beauty, goodness, and dignity of human life from the moment of conception until natural death, and by our love of mother and child and our love of the sick and frail elderly, win many...Read More

What we hide from ourselves in darkness, the Lord Jesus brings to light, not to shame us or to make us feel bad but to renew, repair, and rebuild us, so that the glory shining on his face might shine from deep within us.Read More

In the graces of Holy Orders, we were urged configure ourselves to the Christ who came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life in love.Read More

Both the Book of Deuteronomy and Jesus himself in Mark’s Gospel instruct us that the first and greatest commandment is to love God with all one’s heart, and Jesus adds, “you shall love your neighbor as yourself” – that is to say, from the very depth of your heart.Read More

But we should also take great comfort the existence of purgatory – that state of being further purified even after death, that is to say, made ready for heaven, where we are to receive and reflect the infinitely pure and beautiful love of the Triune God with which all the saints are resplendent.Read More