For the bonds of our charity, unity, and fraternity are not broken by death. We are united with our beloved dead in the Communion of Saints. We are granted the grace of assisting them by the charity of our prayers and they, in turn, pray for us from their place in eternity.Read More

It’s not hard for us to see the light which this great saint shed upon the Church which has just celebrated in the United States a beautiful Eucharistic Congress as part of an ongoing Eucharistic revival. It’s also not hard for us to see the relevance of St. Peter Julian in our lives as leaders...Read More

I’m delighted to celebrate Holy Mass this morning here at St. Mary’s, and on this occasion, to install Fr. James Boric as your pastor and as your pastor at St. Michael in Clear Spring. He’s been here, of course, more than a year, and in that time, you have come to know what I know:...Read More

So on this day of rejoicing and blessing, let us entrust our cares and worries & weaknesses to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, confident that he knows us and loves us more deeply than we could ever know and love ourselves, confident that he bears our burdens and heals our infirmities and that he lead...Read More

The effects of original sin, and the shattering of unity that comes with it are real. But the mercy of God revealed in Christ has conquered all things, restoring that unity God intended from the foundation of the world.Read More

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the heart of our Mother, a heart pierced by the sword of sorrow at the suffering of her Son, the heart in which she pondered all the things that God had done and would do through her, the heart of a mother and...Read More

In this holy shrine where St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's mortal remains lie, on these grounds where America's first natural-born canonized saint walked, it is right that we should take hold of this great saint's Eucharistic vision. For from the start of her conversion, the mystery of the Eucharist, the true presence of Christ's Body and...Read More

We who are mortal, yet have in us the seed of immorality, long for the eternal, a life that we taste in the Eucharist, as we receive into the depth of our being Jesus, the Bread of Life.Read More