For 100 years God’s work has been done from this place, for that and for all those who shared in that work, we give God thanks and praise. This work will continue, the mission does on. Today, as we look to the future, we ask God for the grace we need to be his messengers...Read More
Trinity Sunday is not about “breaking the code”, a vain attempt make the mystery of God less mysterious or “un-mysterious”. No, it’s about allowing ourselves to be “all lost in wonder” as our eyes of faith behold something of God grandeur and glory, as we experience something of his love, as we allow the love...Read More
Belonging to Legatus means living out your discipleship in a missionary way, not only something reserved to some private sphere, but something that impacts the whole of who you are and what you do, privately and publicly, personally, and professionally.Read More
So let us rejoice and be glad. For there burns within the Church a fire of love that does not go out. There blows in the Church a breeze that never fails to cool the heat, a spring of living water that does not dry up. We have only to open our hearts to the...Read More
Dear brothers, so soon to be ordained: In St. Matthew, St. Paul, and Pope Francis you have found a path for approaching the mystery about to be enacted in the depths of your spirit. You, as all of us in ordained ministry, must rely on the mercy of God.Read More
I joyfully congratulate you on this day of re-dedication and consecration, and as we await the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday, I join you in prayer, in this our upper room, for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit, such that Resurrection Parish will radiate far and wide the glory of God shining...Read More
If we are to have a future, it must be a future of love. The world’s anger passes away into oblivion, but Christ’s love is eternal. Only love is credible. Only love drives the Church’s mission forward.Read More
Today’s Scriptures turn the phrase, ‘to give as good as you get’, on its head. They inspire us not only to transform the meaning of that phrase, but they also reveal why and how our lives should be different, radically different, from the world around us.Read More
By listening to the Word of God, by sharing in Jesus sacrifice on the Cross, and by receiving his Body and Blood under the form of bread and wine, you are being joined to Christ as closely as branches are joined to the vine.Read More
In today’s Gospel, Jesus shows us a better way to be connected. . . connected not just culturally, morally, legally, or electronically – but connected in love.Read More
By willing it, we “give God permission” to unite us to himself and one another by means of his abundant graces flowing from him to us through the Church. In a word, you and I have to decide how, when, and where we will allow the Lord to take us to himself and make us...Read More
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