In our second reading this weekend St. Paul sums up all of Lent for me. He encourages us that “hope does not disappoint” and plainly tells us of the cost […]

“Go forth.” Those are the Lord’s first words to Abram, later known as Abraham, the father of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, in this Sunday’s first reading. In our responsorial psalm […]

Here we go. That four letter word: Lent. Like it or not, ready or not, we find ourselves in this strange weather and, perhaps quite unexpectedly, in the beginning of […]

This Sunday’s Gospel is filled with beautiful imagery, so detailed and heartfelt. Reading it and reading it again almost feels warm. One can almost sense the sunlight in it, but […]

Okay, Lord, this one seems impossible. “Be perfect, as your father in heaven is perfect,” our Lord confronts us. Oh, boy. How are we supposed to be perfect? That’s a […]

This weekend the Academy students perform their Winter Comedy in the Odyssey Theatre (parish auditorium), Afterlife. This is a shameless plug, but in the spirit of this weekend’s reading to […]

“You are the salt of the Earth!” Jesus tells us. We’ve heard it before, so much, in fact, that it is easy to forget what Jesus is really saying to […]

It’s National Catholic Schools Week in the United States and what a perfect Gospel reading to usher in the celebration. I’ve written before on the prophetic nature of the Beatitudes—that […]

When I first started to take my faith seriously in college, I would say the Church’s night prayer with friends who my dear friend and mentor, Msgr. Richard Liddy, gathered. […]

Our beautiful and crazed Christmas season ends with quite the narrative jump. The baby Jesus, born in the stable on Christmas morning, is now a thirty-year-old that emerges seemingly out […]