March 2, 2025Lent begins this week with our celebration of Ash Wednesday. Lent is a 40-day retreat for the entire Church, a time for us to step back from so much of the chaos and turmoil of our lives ...  Read More

Feb. 23, 2025When asked to give the greatest of the Commandments, Jesus named two, which summarize the entire Law and Prophets. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your min...  Read More

Feb. 16, 2025We are all familiar with the Sermon on the Mount, from the Gospel of St. Matthew. Much of the same material found in the Sermon on the Mount is also found in the Gospel of St. Luke, but i...  Read More

Feb. 9, 2025Some cultures claim that the basic unit of society is the state. Others say that it is the individual. The Catholic Church states that the basic unit of society is the family.  If the fami...  Read More

Feb. 2, 2025There are two different but similar things going on in the Gospel for today. Mary and Joseph have brought Jesus to the Temple to present Him to the Lord. They have also come for the purifi...  Read More

Jan. 26, 2025For two weeks now we have been reading from the First Letter of Corinthians about the Church. Last week we heard St. Paul tell us that everyone within the Church is given some spiritual g...  Read More

Jan. 19, 2025The Second Sunday of Ordinary Time breaks all the rules. The Gospel for that day, in all three years of the Liturgical Cycle, is the Wedding Feast of Cana, from the Gospel of John, which ...  Read More

Jan. 12, 2025The final Sunday of the Christmas season and the First Sunday of Ordinary Time are both the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. In this scene, we encounter the adult Jesus for the fir...  Read More

Jan. 5, 2025We begin this final week of the Christmas season with the Feast of the Epiphany. Officially, we will end the season next Sunday, with the Baptism of the Lord, which serves as a pivotal fea...  Read More

Dec. 29, 2024The Sunday between Christmas and the Solemnity of Mary, on Jan. 1, is always celebrated as the Feast of the Holy Family. We are asked to reflect on Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the life tha...  Read More

Dec. 22, 2024The two figures who most represent the season of Advent are John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Over the past two weeks, we have focused on John, and this week we focus on Mary....  Read More

Dec. 15, 2024Rejoice in the Lord always! Again, I say rejoice!   If we went back in time, we would find that Advent used to be 40 days long, like Lent. And it had a very Lenten character. It was a tim...  Read More