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Dear Friends,  Soon it will be April and I will carefully unwrap my fig trees in the side yard. A gift…

Dear Friends, So, what is going on with Abraham and God in today’s first reading? Heifers and she-goats and rams slaughtered,…

Poverty comes in many forms. It isn’t just financial. Trust me, as a priest I find that some of the…

So, are you like Jesus? Am I? How much? How little? Jesus says it clearly: “No disciple is superior to the…

If you are like me, the lesson from Luke’s Gospel for this Sunday is a bitter sweet pill to swallow….

Are you on the mark? Is your life headed in the right direction? Or are you missing the point? Is…

Dear Friends, How do we find the wisdom to envision a new world and the courage to fight for it? How…

My Dear Friends and Parishioners: In our readings appointed for this coming Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear those…

As many of you know, I celebrate a lot of weddings! I LOVE weddings! I enjoy the process of engaging…

Dear Friends and Family,  This Sunday we honor the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. This is one of the…

After visiting Jesus, the magi “departed for their country by another way.” It is no coincidence that at the time Matthew…

It’s almost time. Christmas will soon be here and many of us will struggle. Some of us have anticipatory…

  As you see, Advent is a season of preparation and waiting for the coming of our Messiah, Jesus Christ. There…

We’re so used to our image of John the Baptist hanging out in the desert, that something that would have…

That, the name of today’s Solemnity as we come to the final week of the Liturgical Year, certainly sounds as…

This Sunday, as Catholics on this Sunday’s Solemnity of Christ the King, we will sit and ponder the meaning of…

Do you ever feel like you have nothing to offer? I can only imagine how the widow felt that day…

Most of you have heard enough of my preaching that you won’t be surprised when I tell you that I…

‘Well, of course I am’, many of us would respond. I’m baptized. I go to church. I give in the…

Every time the Sunday Scriptures deal with the topic of marriage, I automatically recall one of my favorite passages from…