Dear Friends: We are celebrating the Eighth day of Easter, the conclusion of the Great Easter Octave. New members have been welcomed into our church by Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. We have renewed our Baptismal Promises. Through Lent and the celebration of Easter our “spiritual batteries” have been recharged, hopefully….

Dear Friends The Church celebrates today as both Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday.  It is on Palm Sunday that we enter Holy Week, and welcome Jesus into our lives, asking him to allow us a share in his suffering, death and resurrection. This is also the time we remember and…

Dear Friends: Lent’s fifth Sunday’s readings present us with a challenge. Just as Jesus became the “Promised Messiah of Glory” and the “Conquering Son of Man” by offering his life for others, we too can only possess heaven by dying to self and spending our lives in self-giving, sacrificial service. …

Dear Friends: The Fourth Sunday of Lent is called Lætare (Rejoice) Sunday, from the first words of the liturgy [Introit]. Since it occurs in the middle of Lent, as Gaudete Sunday is celebrated midway through Advent, Lætare Sunday reminds us of the Event we look forward to at the end…

Dear Friends: Everything that Jesus said and did revealed both the character of his heavenly Father and the desires of his Father’s heart: ‘He who has seen me has seen the Father’. By clearing out the traders and money-changers from the temple, Jesus revealed the desire of his Father to…

Dear Friends Jesus took with him Peter and James and John to the mountain and showed them a glimpse of his glorious, divine self through the transfiguration. There are several elements to show that it was a divine experience. A mountain, traditionally, is considered the dwelling place of God. Abraham…

Dear Friends, The season of Lent is our time to prepare ourselves to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. It has become a time set aside to take a deep look inside ourselves and ask ourselves some serious questions about who we are, as human beings, created in the…

Dear Friends, If one considers, along with today’s Gospel, the reading from the prophet Isaiah, and the Responsorial Psalm, then clearly the theme which emerges is that of healing. The psalmist asks that our souls be healed. Isaiah points out that God heals us spiritually, even when we are unaware…

Dear Friends, On this Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we are once again reminded about the Lord’s love for the sick, lonely, and down-trodden. The special aspect of today’s readings is His love and mercy toward those who are considered sinners and outcasts. The Gospel story is about the man…

Dear Friends, “The night is long and I am full of tossing until dawn,” so it says in our First Reading today from the Book of Job. Who of us cannot relate to this experience? Sleeping pills and herbal remedies for sleeplessness have become a multi-billion dollar industry! Maybe more…