COTLF YOUTH PILGRIMAGE TO WYD: LISBON 2023!

- April 14th, 2022

Arise and go with haste!! Join the COTLF/ADOM Pilgrimage to Lisbon, Portugal for the celebration of World Youth Day 2023, July 29th through August 8th, 2023! Pilgrimage includes all airfare/transportation, travel insurance, hotel accommodations at the DoubleTree Lisbon, daily breakfast at the hotel, an opening and closing meal, a walking tour of the city, visits …

Treasures of the Church Relics Exhibit Coming on May 24th!

- April 14th, 2022

 An extraordinary exhibit of relics of the Saints will be touring the dioceses of Florida for the month of May. Father Carlos Martins, a Vatican-appointed expert on relics, will be here with a Vatican collection of over 160 relics, some as old as 2,000 years.  Among the treasures will be relics of the Apostles, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Joseph, …

Carmelite Discernment Retreat

- April 7th, 2022

We invite you to take some time to discern more deeply if God may be calling you to the Religious Life. If you are a single woman, between the age of 18 and 30, and wish to know more about the deep bonds that unite us as a religious family, what it means to belong …

10 de Abril – Domingo de Ramos

- April 7th, 2022

Mis Queridos Amigos: ¡La Semana Santa ya está aquí! La semana más importante del año. Y por eso les presento una pregunta muy sencilla: ¿cómo piensan pasar esta semana? No podemos llevar a cabo las actividades de los próximos siete días como si fuera una semana más. Los acontecimientos de la Semana Santa transformaron la …

April 10th – Palm Sunday

- April 7th, 2022

My Dear Friends: Holy Week is here! The most important week of the year. And so I present you with a very simple question: how do you intend to spend this week? We cannot go about the activities of the next seven days as if it were just another week. The events of Holy Week …

3 de Abril – V Domingo de Cuaresma

- March 31st, 2022

Mis Queridos Amigos: Dado que la Semana Santa está a una semana de distancia y comenzamos a apresurarnos hacia la Pascua, quería ofrecerles extractos y reflexiones sobre mi homilía de la semana pasada sobre El Hijo Pródigo. Esta es una parábola tan atemporal que continúa conmoviéndonos como seguramente conmovió a aquellos que la escucharon de …

April 3rd – V Sunday of Lent

- March 31st, 2022

My Dear Friends: Since Holy Week is now a week away and we start to hasten towards Easter, I wanted to offer you excerpts and reflection on my homily last week on The Prodigal Son. This is such a timeless parable that continues to move us as it surely moved those who heard it from …

Pope Francis’ Prayer of Consecration of Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

- March 23rd, 2022

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March 27th – IV Sunday of Lent

- March 23rd, 2022

My Dear Friends:         On March 15, Archbishop Wenski promulgated a letter that I would like to share with you today. In it he ends the dispensation that has been in place since the pandemic began and restores the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. The letter starts off with a quote from the Catechism of …