April 21, 2024Shepherds are a big deal in Hebrew history. Abraham had sheep and goats among his many flocks. God asked him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah. The angel of God stopped him, a...  Read More

April 14, 2024Each of the four Gospels tells the story of the Resurrection from a slightly different perspective. The Gospel for this Sunday, from Luke’s Gospel, reveals the story of Easter Day. It te...  Read More

April 7, 2024As most of you know I went into the hospital on Holy Thursday, during the parish dinner. I was experiencing some confusion. We learned that I did have a mild stroke, which was the cause o...  Read More

March 31, 2024Easter is the most important celebration of the Church’s liturgical year. It celebrates the most important event in all of history—the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The Resurrecti...  Read More

April 3, 2024Dear Friends, I hope that you are all doing well. Thought I should let you know how I am doing.   The doctors did diagnose me with a small stroke. It did not cause any paralysis or slurri...  Read More

March 24, 2024Today we begin the most sacred time of the Church’s year—Holy Week. I want to give you a brief explanation of each of the events.     At the beginning of this Mass, we celebrate the triu...  Read More

March 17, 2024Today is March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. Patrick was born in the 4th Century, in England. When he was in his teens he was kidnapped by pirates and taken to Ireland, where he was sold into s...  Read More

March 10, 2024It deeply saddens me when so many people in the Sacrament of Reconciliation and in other conversations indicate that they believe in a God who is angry and vengeful and who is just looki...  Read More

March 3, 2024Through the years, some people have reacted to the story of the cleansing of the temple by commenting that Jesus “sinned” through this action. Their reasoning is that Jesus went to the te...  Read More

Feb. 25, 2024Our first reading this Sunday tells the story of the testing of Abraham. Childless until old age, Abraham and Sarah had only one child together—Isaac. God promised Abraham that through th...  Read More

Feb. 18, 2024The 40 days that Christ spent in the desert is the model for our Christian Lent. So is the 40 days of the story of Noah and the flood, which our second reading today tells us is a foresha...  Read More

Feb. 11, 2024Today is World Marriage Day. Christopher West, one of the leading teachers of the Theology of the Body, has commented that as the family goes, so goes society, and as marriage goes, so go...  Read More