What could be more appropriate than helping those who have never experienced the poverty that so many of our brothers and sisters experience and then mobilizing the community to transform the lives of children living in poverty?
Looking back at our own Baptism in light of how the birth of Jesus changed everything… for everyone. Perhaps it might trigger some thoughts about your own Baptism.
Remember how God whispered to us on the day of our Baptism: you are my beloved child, I am pleased with you. We may have forgotten that. Let us pray that our memory be jogged.
Ordinary time can be a time to think about the ordinary saints in our lives and what ordinary means in the context of our lives. Pope Francis reminds us of “the saints next door” and our own call to a practical holiness.
The star of the wisemen can be a metaphor for the times in our lives when we must seek in the darkness for the light of God’s Providence as did St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Vincent dePaul.
Fr. Bindel Mary Ifeanyichukwu , CM arrived from Nigeria October 5. He joins Fr. Joseph Ita Sam, also a Vincentian who arrived earlier in the summer. Both are serving in St. Vincent’s Parish in Germantown.
Rom 16, 13 reads: "Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; and greet his mother—a mother to me also." If this…
Have a blessed Holy Week!
I have never thought about the people that were named in the Gospels. I would agree that they may be…
Generally, I love the laconic nature of Mark's Gospel. The Passion narrative is very compelling in its starkness, with one…
Father John, Blessings to you as you step cautiously down that new path. Grace and Peace be with you!