Fifth Sunday of Easter

5th Sunday in Easter. 5/7/23

God does not work in generalities; he works in particulars. And the place He has prepared for you answers all the fine details of your specific heart.

Fourth Sunday of Easter

Fourth Sunday of Easter 4/30/23

When one door closes, and a closed door stands before you, and fear and sadness fill our hearts, Jesus reminds us: “I am the gate.”

Third Sunday of Easter

Third Sunday of Easter 4/23/23

Where is Jesus?

Divine Mercy Sunday

Divine Mercy 4/16/23

So, why does the body of the resurrected Lord still bear the wounds of his crucifixion?

Easter Vigil

Easter Vigil 4/8/23

If this is all just a story – to hell with it.

Good Friday

Good Friday 4/7/23

Only in the paradoxes of life can the full breadth of reality be captured. Today we say the day humanity killed God is good. Why?

Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday 4/6/23

We all want to pretend that we are perfect. And we all know that we are not.

Passion Sunday

Passion Sunday 4/3/23

Does the Passion narrative bore you? Or does it still shape your life?

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Fifth Sunday of Lent 3/26/23

The Lord never says: “Just get over it.” Our tears, no matter how petty they may seem to us, make Him weep.

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Fourth Sunday of Lent 3/19/23

Behold His face!

Third Sunday of Lent

Third Sunday of Lent 3/12/23

We must learn to become the subject of God’s mad desire.

Second Sunday of Lent

Second Sunday of Lent 3/5/23

It is by pressing into suffering that we are transfigured. It is only by allowing the egg to crack, that a bird can emerge.

First Sunday of Lent

First Sunday of Lent 2/26/23

The sickness that infects and effects the human heart is lack of trust in the Creator.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday 2/22/23

You are utterly dependent upon someone else for everything.

Seventh Sunday Ordinary Time (A)

Seventh Sunday Ordinary Time 2/19/23

Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Well, that’s impossible! Right?

Fourth Sunday Ordinary Time (A)

Fourth Sunday Ordinary Time 1/29/23

What is your measurement of success? Is it the same as God’s?

Third Sunday Ordinary Time (A)

Third Sunday Ordinary Time 1/22/23

God wants humanity to be one. And it is through the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church that God gathers humanity into holy communion.

Second Sunday Ordinary Time (A)

Second Sunday Ordinary Time 1/15/23

God wants to be known. And it is through the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church that he is made known.

Epiphany Mass

Epiphany 1/8/23

How far are you willing to travel to be with what you love the most?

Christmas Midnight Mass

Christmas Eve 12/24/22

Can you hear the Angels sing?

Fourth Sunday of Advent (A)

Fourth Sunday of Advent 12/18/22

God is the eternal optimist.

Third Sunday of Advent (A)

Third Sunday of Advent 12/11/22

To stop celebrating is to stop living.

Second Sunday of Advent (A)

Second Sunday of Advent 12/04/22

Hope says: “I want more, and I will achieve it!”

First Sunday of Advent (A)

First Sunday of Advent 11/27/22

Press into silence and press into God.

Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe.

Last Sunday in Ordinary Time 11/13/22

You have a king! Raise a glass and give him a toast!

Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 11/13/22

If we choose our destiny, who in their right mind would choose hell? Anyone who hasn’t acquired the taste for heaven.

Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 11/6/22

The moment God loved you into existence He proposed to you. Your life is your answer.

Thirty First Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirty First Sunday in Ordinary Time 10/30/22

“How much larger your life would be if yourself could become smaller in it.” GK Chesterton

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 10/23/22

The cry of the lowliest pierces Heaven.

Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 10/16/22

He is here.

Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 9/18/22

“Don’t call me a Saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.” – Dorothy Day

Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9/18/22

The secularization of the culture is the result of the secularization of our hearts.

Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9/11/22

Got is too present to hide from him. He is too powerful to try to control him. The invitation is simply to surrender to his mad love for you!

Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty third Sunday in Ordinary Time 9/4/22

We don’t come to Mass to make Jesus #1 in our life. We come to Mass to become one with Jesus. This is a world of difference.

Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 8/29/22

Only when we humbly except our status as a creature can God create us into the exalted being He intends us to be.

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8/13/22

Every adventure has two parts: the seeming demise of the protagonist and then his victory.

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8/7/22

Have you grown too old to enjoy God’s youthfulness?

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7/31/22

Why do we prefer the chicken nuggets to the Feast of Heaven?

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7/24/22

Christian prayer is not a call from outside the life of the Trinity; Christian prayer arises in the very heart of the Trinity.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7/17/22

What’s your ONE?

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7/32

Only until we possess nothing can we then possess everything.

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 6/26/22

If we simply did whatever we wanted to do we would never be truly free, we would never be truly happy.

Corpus Christi Sunday

Corpus Christi Sunday 6/20/22

Jesus is here. Period. We get that, then everything else will follow.

Trinity Sunday

Trinity Sunday 6/12/22

So, what’s love got to do with it?

Pentecost Sunday

Pentecost Sunday 6/5/22

The Holy Spirit wishes to break open your life and set you free! Will you let Him change you?

Ascension Sunday

Ascension Sunday 5/29/22

Sadness creeps into a soul that is not living for a purpose. But how do we go about discovering our mission? From where does our mission ultimately flow?

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Sixth Sunday of Easter 5/22/22

If you love me, you follow my commandments. Today, 2000 years from the historical reality of Christ, how do we know his commandments?

Fourth Sunday of Easter

Fourth Sunday of Easter 5/8/22

The Sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

Third Sunday of Easter

Third Sunday of Easter 5/1/22

How sweet and tender, full of mercy and compassion, is our Lord!

Divine Mercy Sunday

Divine Mercy Sunday 4/25/22

Jesus is Alive! And we encounter Him in and through His Church!

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday 4/17/22

Let us run!

Easter Vigil

Easter Vigil 4/16/22

Let your light shine!

Good Friday

Good Friday 4/15/22

The one thing in your life you would want to wish away, today is declared good.

Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday 4/14/22

Do this in remembrance of me.

Passion Sunday

Passion Sunday (c) 4/10/22

It is His faithfulness that strengthens our fickle faith.

Laetare Sunday

First Sunday in Lent (c) 3/6/22

It is in coming to see our blindness that we begin to see.

Third Sunday of Lent

First Sunday in Lent (c) 3/6/22

There is a thirst in your bones that nothing this side of Heaven can satiate.

Second Sunday of Lent

First Sunday in Lent (c) 3/6/22

In your smallness, do you trust that you are protected?

First Sunday of Lent

First Sunday in Lent (c) 3/6/22

If we ignore that we are in a spiritual battle, we will become a pawn in Satan’s hand

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday (c) 3/2/22

Lent is a season of return, returning to the source of one’s very existence, and is so doing, to one’s authentic self.

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (c) 2/27/22

To become a vessel of salvation for another, I must first taste salvation myself.

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (c) 2/13/22

There is always the temptation to prefer heaven on earth rather than Heaven itself.

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (c) 2/6/22

Where have I placed parameters around Christ?

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (c) 1/30/22

The Prophet’s sole mission is an act of selfless love: to speak God’s Truth.

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (c) 1/16/22

Not in the future, not in the past, but in the present moment, Grace is provided.

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (c) 1/16/22

Our hearts have grown cold and empty, Mary knows, and she invites her Son to fill them with Divine Life.