This weekend we hear utterly astonishing words from Isaiah pronounced 800 years before the Messiah’s arrival. These prophetic words are fulfilled perfectly in Christ Jesus the Lord: I will spread prosperity over her like a river, like an overflowing torrent (Isaiah 66:12). The “her” is the new Jerusalem – the Church – which includes each...
There is nary anything easy about persevering in faith. Saint Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower, writes of her bitter struggle to keep the faith: “I try to live by faith, even though it affords me no consolation. I have made more acts of faith during the past year than in all the rest of my...
Lord God, grant that I may live my life in the absolute delight of your divine friendship.
Prayer is indispensable to the spiritual life. We even can say it’s very breath. We cannot live the Christian faith without praying regularly. Being Christian means being a person who prays. On our part effort and commitment is required to pray. Although though prayer is something that can be learned and must be learned, it...
We are excited to launch a new website with highest hopes it will be blessed by God to bring people closer to Him. Redesigned especially for more frlendly use with mobile devices, our site is meant to provide viewers with parish information and spur deepening spiritual formation. May God be praised! Please share with us...
It was an especially troublesome time into which Catherine Benincasa was born in 1347. The popes had fled scandal-laden Rome and were leading from Avignon in the south of France. Our blessed Lord placed upon Catherine’s heart and unmistakable mission to champion urgently needed restoration of Church life. Taking to heart Jesus’ words and actions,...
Today’s Gospel offers special help toward strengthening our faith (John 20:19-31). Jesus shows mercy on the faltering faith of the apostles – and so, too, on ours. Strong faith is the fruit of divine grace. It remains for us to prepare ourselves to receive it, both by asking for it in prayer and by daring...
We have a keen desire to find the Risen Lord Jesus. It is within us because God put it there. God wants us to find Him and to remain with Him. For some the quest spans many long hard years. Often the desire is accompanied by serious preoccupation regarding the obstacles preventing our progress. If...
Jesus’ resurrection announces to us and the whole world that Christian Faith is not in vain. Indeed, our hope does not linger from a dead man, but is found in a Living One! The Living One is the King of the Universe, Whose life is so supremely powerful that it animates this side of heaven,...
After Jesus’ death, precious few remain atop Calvary. Our blessed Mother is there along with the beloved disciple John and Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee and a few other remarkably holy women who “had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him” (Matthew...
