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On Monday, Aug. 15, the Catholic Church celebrates the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven.  We believe that after she died Mary was taken body and soul to her eternal home. But just... Read More

The 19th Sunday in ordinary time falls between two powerful feasts -- the Transfiguration on Saturday and the feast of St. Dominic on Monday.  What wonderful “bookends” to surround a Sunday in... Read More

In this Year of Mercy, let's ask God to help us exercise greater moral character, purity, peace, mercy, generosity and honesty. What habits should we “put to death” so that we may be “rich in what... Read More

In today’s reading, Jesus instructs his disciples about prayer.  The lesson is one of perseverance. Jesus gives the parable of a man coming to a neighbor in the middle of the night looking for some... Read More

Pause...Listen...Choose Thank you Sister for your gentle reflective reminder. Listen ... Learn ... Love ... The "one thing necessary" just might be listening with an open heart .... Why else do... Read More

Have you spent time reflecting on the scholar's question posed in Sunday's Gospel: "What do I need to do to inherit eternal life?" This is an important question for each of us to ask. Jesus affirms... Read More

This weekend, we mark a great beginning -– the birth of our country. As a matter of fact, we’re just ending a time of year when we celebrate a lot of great beginnings: graduations, weddings,... Read More

llow me,” said Jesus to a believer. Pretty direct, right? Yet, in Sunday’s readings, two disciples want to exercise revenge while two others want to tie up some loose ends before they start following... Read More

In Sunday's Gospel from Luke, Jesus first asks his disciples, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”  Then he went a step further and he asked them, “But, who do you say that I am?”  This is a question... Read More

After a Sunday Mass one weekend, a parishioner came up to me and said, “Boy, if Father knew what kind of person so-and-so is, he wouldn’t give her Communion." Sound familiar?  A woman comes to Jesus... Read More