My Dear Friends, “…because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ Then the celebration began.” (Luke 15:24) Every time I have to preach on this gospel of The Prodigal Son, I spend most of my week staring at Rembrandt’s painting that hangs in …
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March 30th – XIV Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 27th, 2025
March 23rd – III Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 20th, 2025
My Dear Friends, As we continue to journey through Lent, I would like to share with you this reflection that our neighbor, Father Richard Vigoa, pastor of St. Augustine, wrote recently to members of the clergy on the liturgy. Father Vigoa not only is the pastor of our neighboring parish but is also the …
March 16th – II Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 14th, 2025
My Dear Friends, “[The Lord Jesus Christ] will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.” (Phil 3:21) The end of yesterday’s gospel from the first Saturday of Lent flows beautiful into today’s gospel of the Transfiguration because …
March 9th – I Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 7th, 2025
My Dear Friends, “Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert…” (Luke 4:1) Listen…….pause for 30 seconds….don’t read any further and just listen…to silence…. That sound is so rare. Many of us avoid silence. I know there have been times in my life that I have avoided …
March 2nd – VIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 28th, 2025
My Dear Friends, This Wednesday we begin the season of Lent which I always describe as a “season of opportunity.” It is an opportunity to start anew, to reset our relationship with Christ, to cast off the things that obstruct our path to holiness. We tend to forget that holiness is our calling! We should …
February 23rd – VII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 21st, 2025
My Dear Friends, As I write this column early in the week, our Holy Father, Pope Francis, is in the hospital in Rome with a respiratory infection. Every day at the Mass, we pray for the pope, but today we pray for his health and for a prompt recovery. During this Holy Year of jubilee, …
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February 16th – VI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 14th, 2025
My Dear Friends, This year is a Jubilee Year. To better understand what a Jubilee means, it is useful to go back to the Jewish roots of our faith. A Jubilee is a special year of repentance, conversion, and forgiveness. Conversion as a remedy for sin was part of the providential plan of God since …
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February 9th – V Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 7th, 2025
My Dear Friends, “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4) This is a story that I love to tell in relationship with this gospel: Ever since I can remember, my father has been taking me fishing. Now that I’m a priest, we usually do it in the summer …
February 2nd – Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 30th, 2025
My Dear Friends, As we gather this Sunday, we are presented with a special feast day that usually falls during the weeks, but this year providentially falls on a Sunday: The Presentation of the Lord. Believe it or not, it has been 40 days since we celebrated Christmas, and today we commemorate our Lord being …
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