After a crazy winter, with wide temperature swings and some dangerous storms, I imagine you’re ready for spring; I know I am!  Who knows what Mother Nature will bring us over the next few weeks but liturgically, Lent – which means “spring” – is almost here; it begins this week with Ash Wednesday.  Just as the natural world is reawakened and renewed every spring, each year, the Church, in her wisdom, offers us this liturgical Season of Lent, a season for reconciliation and renewal.

This Wednesday – Ash Wednesday – begins […]

            As your pastor, I am constantly impressed and edified by the love I see expressed in the families of this great parish.  As I’m sure you realize, families are the backbone of this parish, indeed, of any parish and of the Church.  As far back as Tertullian, a 3^rd century Christian author, the family has been seen as the domestic Church.  Yet, as the Universal Church is today struggling with the tragic clergy sex abuse scandal, families are struggling with the tragedy of pornography due to easy access through […]

This Sunday, we hear the “Sermon on the Mount” as presented in the Gospel of St. Luke.  This great sermon, found in an even more expanded version in the Gospel of St. Matthew, provides us all with the foundation of our lived faith.  Recognizing our poverty before God and hungering for union with the only One who can satisfy our deepest longing, we strive to follow the Way His Son, Jesus, taught us back to God.

All of us are called to follow this Way.  And, we priests are called to […]

 “Come, you who are blessed by my Father.  Inherit the kingdom prepared for you.  For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me. …As often as you did it for one of my least brothers, you did it for me” (Mt 25:34-36, 40).

For the past 61 years, Catholic Charities Appeal has provided assistance for over 10 million people throughout […]