There’s an awful lot of things to pray for these days in the life of the Church but as we celebrate today’s liturgy in the presence of St. John Vianney’s priestly heart, let us pray deeply for people like me, namely, bishops and priests.Read More

Lent is a time of reckoning, a time of taking stock and owning up to responsibility; Lent is a time of making wrongs right; Lent is a time not only to change our external conduct but to purify our hearts through prayer, self-denial, and charity.Read More

Before receiving the Eucharist we will ask the Lord to give us “our daily bread”. Let us also ask that we might be his instruments in providing the daily bread of physical sustenance and the daily bread of human respect to the poor who are very much with us in the City of Baltimore and...Read More

Sometimes we think of the Church only as a large institution, a lot of buildings, a heavily hierarchical structure, a business with schools, charities, & hospitals. And there’s no doubt about it, the Church still has a major institutional presence.Read More