Good morning, everyone; welcome to those who joined in this live streaming after Mass started. I hope you are keeping well in this very stressful time.  Fortunately, modern technology allows us to come together – not in person but over the internet – as a faith community to worship our God.  This is a time when we need to come to God and support each other as his faithful people.  Modern technology also makes it really easy for us to understand that what we’re experiencing in our time isn’t something […]

It is good for us to be here.  As COVID-19 continues to upend our lives, leading to both our federal and state governments to declare a state of emergency, and our archdiocesan leaders to suspend all parish activities with the exception of celebrating the sacraments that are so central to our faith, it is good for us to be here.  And, as we all watch with great concern the continuing roller coaster ride of the stock market and kick ourselves for not selling out when it had reached its highest […]

Just a few weeks ago, the stock market was flourishing.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its all-time high of 29,551 points on 12 February; that was less than a month ago.  And yet, that seems to be a world away, doesn’t it, and now it resembles a roller coaster, with wild swings up and down – mostly down – as the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19 or even more correctly SARS-CoV-2, interrupts trade and travel for so many and has us all concerned for our health and the health […]

Who would have thought that we would experience such turmoil from a lowly virus?  A rogue nation shooting a dirty nuclear bomb or a cyber attacker crippling our electrical power grid – sure – but a virus?  And yet, the coronavirus, renamed COVID19 or more correctly SARS CoV-2, is certainly giving us great concern and the stock market tumbles as a result of serious trade and travel disruptions.  It’s tempting to retreat from the world but where do you go to be safe?  Sorry, I don’t have an answer to […]