Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face
Today we celebrate the Saint of the Little Way, a cloistered nun who died at the age of only twenty-four, having led a very simple and hidden life. After her death... Read more.
26th Sunday: Self-giving, self-emptying love
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus (Phil 6:14). Two Sundays ago, when we celebrated the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, you may remember... Read more.
25th Sunday: The Kingdom of God
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. (Is 55:9) The parable of the workers in the vineyard which the sacred liturgy presents... Read more.
23rd Sunday: Sacred liturgy and Catholic culture
O come, let us worship God and bow down, before the God who made us, for He is the Lord our God (Ps 95:6-7). In what is known as the Divine Office or the Liturgy... Read more.
22nd Sunday: Embrace the Cross
If anyone wants to become my disciple, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. (Mt 16:24) As we continue our reading of St. Matthew’s Gospel... Read more.
21st Sunday: You are the Christ
You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mt 16:16). St. Peter’s statement of faith is the foundation of the Christian faith, just as it is the foundation... Read more.
20th Sunday: The sacrament of unity
For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples (Is 56:7). The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled in our hearing. The sacred assembly (synaxis) of the... Read more.
18th Sunday: The medicine of immortality
Jesus saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. … And all ate and were filled (Mt 14: 14; 20). The healing of the sick and the... Read more.
What we’re looking on the web..
Archbishop Prendergast decrees an end to eulogies by Kelly Egan, Tristan Hopper “In a Christian funeral, we gather not to praise the deceased, but to pray... Read more.
A True Account of the Life and Death of St. Edmund Arrowsmith
A young man had contracted an incestuous match with his cousin before a Protestant Minister. Fr. Arrowsmith, who performed his functions in those parts, often reproved... Read more.