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
These are women and men who have encountered the Lord and who have committed themselves to advancing the mission of the Church, especially the mission of bringing the Good News of Salvation to young and old alike, to peers and co-workers, to the unchurched, the perplexed, the poor and vulnerable.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
Just as my Mom taught me the value of correction, so too does Mother Church teach us the value and importance of correction – the correction to which each of us, myself included, must submit ourselves, but also the fraternal correction which should be practiced in the Church’s life.Read More
We pray that Mom is reunited with Dad and Frankie and her parents and loved ones, but most of all that she beholds her Vindicator face to face in the halls of heaven.Read More
Indeed, the pastor’s first duty is to enable his people, individually and collectively, to listen to and encounter Jesus Christ so as to experience the power of his love, and the beauty of his goodness and truth, and to be molded by him into disciples, indeed a community of disciples who are “a light brightly...Read More
My prayer is that you will encounter many Nathanael’s in the year ahead – moms and dads and children without guile, who will truly be open to the wisdom, both divine and human, you will offer them in the amazingly beautiful and effective ministry we call Catholic education.Read More