This weekend we begin the most sacred week in the Church’s calendar. As important as Christmas is, it is the suffering, death and resurrection of the Lord that has won for us the great victory. It is why Jesus was born. I hope that each of you will take part as fully as possible in […]
This week, beginning Sunday, January 28 is National Catholic Schools Week. It is a time to celebrate the great gift that Catholic schools are. Here in the Diocese of Covington, we have a particularly rich history of Catholic education that we need to acknowledge and celebrate. A few years ago Bishop Foys announced that he […]
The Third Sunday of Advent is known as Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete means “joy,” and in the readings we repeatedly are told to rejoice in the Lord. Saint Paul goes so far, in the second reading, to tell us to “rejoice always.” I recently was at the funeral of a friend who had died very suddenly and […]
November 13, 2017 Last Sunday we saw the latest in a seemingly unending series of slaughters of innocent people. In just the past month we have seen 54 people killed and 564 people injured in the shooting in Las Vegas. A week and a half ago 8 people in New York were run down and […]
October 15, 2017 Last week I began to write about the rosary as a meditation device that allows us to enter deeply into the lives of Jesus and Mary. I want to continue with that, as I have spoken with people this week who were not taught the Mysteries of the Rosary and are not […]
August 27, 2017 Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome is, like most churches, in the form of a cross. At the meeting place of the main aisle and the two arms of the cross is the Papal Altar. Standing around the altar, if you look up, you see the largest dome in the world, which was […]
August 13, 2017 As I mentioned last week, I am holding some listening sessions, in order to get to know more of you and to learn what are your concerns and hopes and dreams for Mother of God Church. Mother of God Church has been involved in serving the poor and the needy in Covington […]
August 6, 2017 The Transfiguration of Jesus, which we celebrate this Sunday, is a very strange and mysterious event. The Apostles (Peter, James and John) seem to be in some kind of a dream state, confused and awe-stricken by what they see and hear. We might ask ourselves if this was some kind of mystical […]
July 30, 2017 The central theme of Jesus’ preaching was not about himself. He was primarily focused on the theme of the Kingdom of God. The parables that we heard last week (the Wheat and the Weeds, the Mustard Seed, and the Woman and the Yeast) all addressed this theme. So do the parables in […]
Sunday, July 16 In the Gospel for this week, we hear the parable of the sower. Jesus explains that the seed that is sown is the word. The word is living and is life-giving for those who are open to receive it. It bears much fruit in their lives and in the world around them. […]
