Weekly Reflections

Over the years the pastor of a remote parish befriended a parishioner who had made himself rather wealthy through ingenuity and hard work. The Pastor caught him after Mass one…

…From anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they look but do not see and…

The opening prayer for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time begins with these words: “O God, who in the abasement of your Son have raised up a fallen world, fill…

“Father” (Anonymous) 4 years old: My daddy can do anything. 7 years old: My dad knows a lot, a whole lot. 8 years old: My father doesn’t know quite everything.…

During the 1950s, there was a radio and television show entitled Father Knows Best. The show followed the lives of the Andersons, a middle class family living in a Midwestern town. One history of…

We need to wonder how shocked Nicodemus must have felt when Jesus broke to him the greatest piece of good news ever:  “God so loved the world that he gave…

It might be hard to soar above what seems a rather prosaic description of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (cf. Acts 1:9) so as to benefit spiritually as much as…

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, I would like to share with you some recent news and developments regarding the reopening of our parish. As you may already know, Archbishop Allen Vigneron…

Today we should be in for a treat. Not candy, but a treat of the rarest, most precious commodities: LOVE And do we ever need it! Even on Christmas morning, even on…

As a Community of Faith, today we go over Jesus’ farewell speech, the words he spoke the night before his death (John 14: 1-12). They are words of comfort, among…