Weekly Reflections

In Mark’s Gospel (14:22-26), we read about the Institution of the Lord’s Supper. There, in the Upper Room, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to his disciples,…

Dear St. Clement of Rome Family, In response to the state of emergency due to the coronavirus, Archbishop Allen Vigneron has issued a letter to all the faithful that suspends…

March 13, 2020 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As we continue to receive reports about the spread of the Coronavirus in our communities, I write to you today with…

Most kids, like me, who attended public schools grew up with a secularized version of Lent. Lent is a time when we are called to reduce our focus on the…

In the early 1930s, there was a French pilot flying across the Sahara Desert in Africa who had to make an emergency landing, wrecking his plane in the process. He…

Our Gospel passage from Matthew (5:38-48) exposes, mercilessly, how truly wrong are those who are not passionate about their life in Christ. It shows also how much those who are…

“You are the salt of the earth.” “You are the light of the world.” Here are two of the most direct, targeted expressions uttered by Jesus. We all know how…

But who will endure the day of his coming? For he is like the refiner’s fire, or like the fuller’s lye. …He will sit refining his silver and gold in…

Baptism is the sacrament that makes us adopted children of God the Father. But the relationship of life and love with Him must be nurtured every day. This is easily…

In his 1981 Apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio, St. John Paul II had this to say about the Holy Family: “Through God’s mysterious design, it was in that family that the…