Dear friends, I wish all of you a blessed and safe Thanksgiving Weekend. I was away last weekend so there was no homily for the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time.  My grandfather was born in 1899 and he would often talk about life as a young man/husband/father: The Great...

Two weeks ago, I attended my first priest council meeting in years... I had been elected back in the spring... we met at the Villa Madonna following all-too-familiar covid 19 guidelines. At the beginning of the meeting, we had to choose a chair, vice chair and...

Friday morning I had television on in the background… it was on Salt and Light. One of today’s greatest Christian preachers was preaching and excellent homily. Whenever she is on, I like to listen to her. She is known as Joyce Myers. She’s so engaging, humorous. I...

This past Friday, we remembered the terrible terrorist attack of 9/11 where over 3000 people were killed. Most of us remember what we were doing that day when we heard about this tragedy. Nineteen years later, sites have been repaired or rebuilt and monuments created,...