Fear not, I will help you.

2ND WEEK OF ADVENT   Fear not, I will help you.    The people who first heard these words found themselves facing fearsome obstacles. After decades of exile in Babylon, they were about to embark on the long journey back to their homeland of Jerusalem. But...

Lift up your eyes

SAINT JUAN DIEGO CUAUHTLATOATZIN (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL)   Lift up your eyes.    Do you remember the story of Abraham? One night, God took him outside and told him, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so . . . will your descendants be”...

Hail, full of grace!

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, PATRONAL FEAST DAY OF THE USA (SOLEMNITY) Hail, full of grace!  The Scripture passages(Luke 1:26-38) that we hear in today’s Mass have long inspired the Church’s teaching about the immaculate nature of Mary’s...

He . . . went home, glorifying God.

SAINT AMBROSE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL)   He . . . went home, glorifying God.    In a way, Advent puts us in the same spiritual position as the paralyzed man and his friends in today’s Gospel reading(Luke 5:17-26). Consider what was going...

Quote of the Week | December 7, 2020

“Everybody can be great.  Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.  You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics...

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