What is it that has brought us together this afternoon, crowded as we are into this great cathedral? We come from different parishes, speak different languages, hail from various countries, represent differing cultures, engage in different occupations, find ourselves in many different situations. What is it that has brought us together? What do we share...Read More

It is a pleasure to return to St. Michael Parish here in Overlea and to thank Father Hector for his dedicated, energetic, and faithful leadership of St. Michael’s Parish as well as St. Clement Mary Hoffbauer, and Annunciation. Let’s express our deepest thanks to your pastor, Father Hector!Read More

Lent is just beginning, and now is as good a time as any to make a plan for Lent. Because, in this moment, in this Mass we’re celebrating here and now, the Lord is calling us to repent and believe in the Gospel.Read More

After Jesus cured the leper, he instructed him to show himself to the priests, who, in turn, would offer a lamb as a sacrifice of thanksgiving for his healing.Read More

It is a joy to welcome all of you here to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. The Cathedral is a special Church for everyone in our Archdiocese, the Cathedral is where you find the Bishops chair, “the cathedra”, the place from which I lead the liturgy and teach the faith.Read More

Several months ago, as we completed the listening phase, we joined together for an evening of prayer at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.Read More

Spending these few, entirely pleasant days in the Florida sunshine with fellow members of the family of the Knights of Columbus, it may be a little hard for us to identify with Job’s complaint about the drudgery of life, its slavish routines, its paltry rewards, about life’s brevity, the anxiety it generates, its futility.Read More

On this Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, something is definitely happening in the most consequential of all dramas, the drama of which God is the creator, the producer, and chief protagonist – the drama which is God’s plan for the creation and redemption of the world, the drama in which...Read More