None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. St. Paul’s words in today’s second reading seem to fittingly follow this past Friday’s 25th anniversary of the...
Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law…Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law. Today’s second reading seems to re-emphasize the role of the Church as a true...
“The proclamation of the Gospel in today’s world continues to demand of us a prophetic, counter-cultural resistance to the self-centered hedonism of paganism.” Pope Francis 11/24/2023 The Christian life has never been about simply going along with the crowd. This...
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. The liturgies of the last two Saturdays were focused on the Blessed Mother. On August 15, we celebrated the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and this Saturday,...
“Observe what is right, do what is just” — Isaiah 56:1. The middle of August is a time when we are preparing to send many of our young people back to college. For some, this will be a return to a familiar campus and a new year of classes, friendships, challenges, and...
My friends, you were chosen to be free. So don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do anything you want. Use it as an opportunity to serve each other with love (Gal 5:13). In his column in last week’s bulletin, JT Parker quoted from the fifth chapter of St....
