20th Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Grave Immoral Act
Over the past few days, I have been hearing more and more questions raised about the USCCB’s silence on the Massachusetts’ Governor’s signing of a law allowing abortion until birth. […]
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Get Up!
Many years ago, there was an uneducated man who traveled from town to town teaching. He had noticed for quite some time that his home country was beginning to fall […]
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: He Brought them to You
How often do we send people into the night, without food or place to stay? The disciples, faced with a crowd of over 5,000 hungry men and women, along with […]
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Treasure, a Merchant and a Net
The Kingdom of Heaven is indeed a strange thing. It is at once like a measure of yeast, a mustard seed, a woman who has lost her penny, a farmer […]
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Clothing that God Sees
Coming to Mass, we should dress for Mass, just as we would dress for a nice dinner party or formal celebration. People usually will even dress special when going to […]
The 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Privileged Few
There is a good chance that if you read the title to this week’s column, many of you are anticipating something negative to follow. The idea of the privileged few […]
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Love of Nation
Normally, the Pastor’s Corner is reserved for commenting on the Sunday Gospel, or sometimes the Old Testament reading, but it wouldn’t seem right to let the 250th Anniversary of our […]
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Place for Elijah
When I was with the Carmelites, one of the traditions that all of the houses had was to always have a place open at the dinner table for Elijah. This […]
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Created to Bear Fruit
Imagine buying a luscious fruit tree and giving it to your son or daughter to plant outside their new house. You take great care, not only in buying the tree […]
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Lost Sheep of Israel
A number of you have heard about the impending, seemingly, excommunication of SSPX, about the Synod of Synodality’s group 9 report that contradicts and mischaracterizes centuries of Church teaching, or […]