Homily of Pope Leo XIV Mass for the Inauguration of His Petrine Ministry, Sunday, May 18, 2025 I greet all of you with a heart full of gratitude at the beginning of the ministry that has been entrusted to me. Saint Augustine wrote: Lord, “you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless …
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May 25th – VI Sunday of Easter
From the Pastor’s Desk - May 22nd, 2025
May 18th – V Sunday of Easter
From the Pastor’s Desk - May 16th, 2025
My Dear Friends: “Peace be with you all!” Those were the first words that our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, directed towards all of us when he walked out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on May 8. These were the words of the Risen Christ to the apostles on the first EasterSunday. …
April 13th – Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - April 10th, 2025
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 …
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April 6th – V Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - April 3rd, 2025
My Dear Friends, As we begin Passiontide and are confronted with the stark visual of our statues being covered as we approach Easter, I urge all of you to make a good Lenten confession,if you have not already done so, before Holy Thursday. Elsewhere in this bulletin, you will find the Holy Week Schedule plus …
March 30th – XIV Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 27th, 2025
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 …
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 …