Above all else let us take this opportunity to think back and to express our gratitude to God for having called us to share in his priesthood, for inviting us to give our lives at the service of announcing the Good News of Salvation, and beg him for the grace to continue to live out...Read More

The work is so very important. The ministry is so very challenging. The needs are many. But as you leave here take heart: This is God’s work. It will endure. God can take the love and goodness you offer to those who need his healing and multiply that in abundance –such that many may once...Read More

For like the Apostles in the reading from the Acts of Apostles, Bl. Michael McGivney bore courageous and loving witness to the Risen Lord, and not only that, he created a pathway for the laity to grow in holiness and to bear witness in their own lives to the truth and reality of the Resurrection,...Read More

But, dear friends, if we had to sum up in one word what it is we believe in, what would that word be? That word would be “mercy”. We believe in God’s mercy, in divine mercy.Read More

To believe in this greatest of mysteries requires us to rely on witnesses – on Mary Magdelene, on Peter and John, all of whom we met in today’s Gospel, and on St. Paul who saw the Risen Lord seated at the right hand of the Father, and on the Apostles bearing witness to the Risen...Read More

And let those of us who have been Catholic Christians our whole life long rejoice, rejoice as new members are incorporated into the Body of Christ, rejoice as we are renewed in our own baptism, rejoice as we promise anew to life as children of the light, rejoice as we share the banquet of Christ’s...Read More

As on this Good Friday we bend low to worship the Cross of our salvation, let our love for the Crucified Savior rule out mere lip service, complacency, and presumption on our part.Read More

So, let us rejoice as Jesus washes our feet and sets before us the Paschal Meal: rejoice in the cleansing waters of baptism and the cleansing tears of penance; rejoice in Jesus’ eucharistic gift of self in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the true presence of the One who loved us to the very...Read More