Greetings in Christ! This is the Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete Sunday or “Rejoice Sunday”. This week is all about joy. We light the third candle (the rose-colored one) as a reminder that this week is all about joy in how close we are to celebrating the best thing that ever happened to us: Jesus’ […]
Greetings in Christ! We continue our journey through Advent. This is a good moment to pause and refocus our hearts and minds on the upcoming celebration of His birth and to prepare ourselves for His second coming. This week we celebrate two big occasions all in one. This Thursday, December 12th, is the anniversary of […]
Greetings in Christ! I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving. God is so good. I believe it’s true that few things are more healing, more important and more rare than a thankful spirit. It is so easy to find and complain about what is wrong, it takes a person of character and vision to see […]
Greetings in Christ! I can’t believe I am going to type this, but Advent starts in one week…wow! Advent is the season where we do two things: First, to prepare to celebrate the birth of Our Lord and second to prepare our souls for His Second Coming. It’s a blessed season that often gets lost […]
Greetings in Christ! Big news this week, folks! You may remember that before I arrived here, our parish signed an agreement with the city to do certain things on our campus. One part of the plan we have to do sooner rather than later is build a new building to house our Outreach to the poor and […]
Greetings in Christ! An interesting celebration this week is on the 13th, when we honor St. Frances Cabrini. She really is a remarkable woman who fundamentally changed the way Catholics minister to the sick. She was a remarkable and formidable woman and I can’t say enough about her. A wonderful movie came out this year called “Cabrini” and […]
Greetings in Christ, all! We have some amazing events and opportunities coming up and I’d love to get as many folks as possible in on these things, so let’s jump right in. First, on election day, we are going to have the Blessed Sacrament exposed from 8 am Mass until 8 pm. Please consider taking some time to […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I’m so, so grateful for your response so far to the campaign. Already, a few of you reached out to our office and offered to make their pledge and I am just so touched. More than a few of you asked if you could make your pledges now instead of waiting for […]
Greetings in Christ, all! So…in the homily this weekend, I talked about (or am going to talk about!) the campaign that our diocese is running: The Saints and Scholars Campaign. In the homily, I pointed out that the money raised is going into three funds: the largest for teacher retention and support, the second is […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I’m so happy to be back home. The pilgrimage was wonderful and very life-giving, but I tend to miss you all when I am away. I was gone for 12 days, ten of them on pilgrimage and the other two ontravel. During the pilgrimage, I visited Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, Thessalonica […]