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

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

Over the past 150 years this school has yielded tremendous fruit in the women who are proud to call NDP their alma mater.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

All around us are the fonts of mercy – the confessional, the altar, ministries of mercy.Read More

So just as these widows reflect the light of Christ, so too may we, as individuals and as a church community, reflect ever more brightly, the glory of God shining on the face of Christ, to the glory of God’s Name and for the salvation of souls.Read More