In this liturgy, we celebrate the holy ones who have been beatified and canonized, including those whose names we know and with whose histories we are familiar.Read More
At the heart of our faith and at the heart of the priesthood are Word and Sacrament: the revealed Word of God as taught and transmitted to us by the Church, and those sacramental signs through which God sanctifies and forms his people, the pinnacle of which is the Most Blessed Eucharist. Read More
When, as a parish family, we are united in love of God and love of one another, then our love overflows beyond the walls of the Church, out into the community.Read More
... we must be wary when everything in our society is politicized … when politics becomes not only bitter but indeed all-consuming, and when every societal problem occasions partisan bickering but no solutions.Read More
Cardinal Hickey was a person of strong convictions and drive – but it was never about himself or his ambitions – always about the Church and others.Read More
Jesus addresses his parable to us, 21st century Catholics, living, working, and worshipping in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He is warning us: “Don’t let this happen to you!” In other words, we must not repeat in our times and in our lives the folly of those tenants who rejected the prophets and even the Son...Read More
How greatly this witness of love is needed in an era of bitter division. The divisions that are rampant in our culture also affect our Church.Read More
In our Church we must avoid all forms of smugness, every form of divisiveness, every pretension of being better or more intelligent than others, but instead, walk humbly with our God and with one another in love, recognizing, together, that in God’s will is our peace. Read More
Just as Mary drew close to that couple in Cana in their hour of need, so too Mary draws close to us in our needs, both spiritual and material, and all of us, dear friends, have experienced Mary’s maternal love as we struggle to make our way through this “valley of tears”.Read More
When we labor generously and lovingly for the Lord and for one another, without counting the cost and without imagining that we are earning our reward, then it is that the Kingdom of God has dawned upon us!Read More
Had we gathered for the Chrism Mass during Holy Week, we would have heard Jesus announce to the people of Nazareth the mission which God the Father had entrusted to him.Read More