What does it mean to reign with Jesus? It means to live and love like Jesus while we are still here on earth. This is the message of our Gospel today.Read More
This morning we celebrate a beautiful feast day of the Blessed Virgin Mary namely, the Feast of Mary’s Presentation in the Temple. It is an event which illumines our Christian imagination: that wonderful and grace-filled moment when Saints Joachim and Anne presented their daughter, Mary, in the Temple.Read More
As we continue to ply our ministries, we stand on their shoulders. They have left us not only with a storehouse of anecdotes and stories but more importantly they have left us with foundations upon which to build as we look to a future full of hope.Read More
When Pope Francis urges you and me to become missionary disciples who bring the faith to the peripheries of unbelief and human suffering, he is urging us to throw off the caution of the wicked and lazy servant, and instead invest our time and talent in spreading the Word of God confident that in the...Read More
When we are afflicted and God does not seem to answer our prayers, we do well humbly to admit that we may not know what to pray for but let us also be consoled by the thought that God never forgets us.Read More
As we look toward the future, let us take heart. Let us be grateful that we are brothers and sisters in Christ living and working together in the Church under the provident eye of our loving Father, and daily enlivened in our faith by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit whose grace we receive in the...Read More
May the examples of Mother Lange, Father Uncles and others inspire us to follow in their footsteps on the journey for peace, justice and unity.Read More
We are indebted to those Jesuit priests, many of whose names are lost to history, and we are also obligated to follow in their footsteps. For regaining confidence in human reason for unchanging moral truth and buttressing it with the light of biblical revelation are crucial to a future full of hope and peace, for...Read More
By opening our hearts to the Word of God, by taking part in the Mass and the Sacraments, we share, a real and deeply personal way, in the love that prompted God the Father to send us his only Son for the forgiveness of our sins.Read More
As baptized Catholics, we share in the death and resurrection of Jesus. But we are also Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre. This means that we are called upon to be strong, virtuous, and courageous in our defense of the faith and charity toward those in need, and in our mission to foster the...Read More
If everything, including our very lives, belongs to God, what’s left for Caesar? Do we grudgingly pay our taxes, vote periodically for the lesser of two evils, and separate plastic from paper when taking out the trash? Or might there be something more we can contribute to government and society?Read More
As we grow in prayer and holiness, something truly wonderful happens. We become those servants who are at once clever and wise who know when to speak, what to say, and how to say it – in ways that will enable the Lord’s message to be heard.Read More