26th Sunday of the Year

Dear Friends in Christ, “Be still and know that I am God.” Thus does the Lord instruct us in Psalm 46, verse 10. The stillness to which we are called in Holy Scripture is a letting go of actions and words that yields silence, both interior and exterior, and such silence is essential for every…

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25th Sunday of the Year

Dear Friends in Christ, Most of us keep multiple calendars on our phones (personal, professional, social, academic, etc), and we make plans for important events in our lives by locating them in one of our many calendars. Moreover, we think of the moments in our calendars as linear – they are past, present, or future…

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24th Sunday of the Year

Dear Friends in Christ, “I believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church believes, teaches, and proclaims to be revealed by God.” These are powerful words. They are words of faith, and they testify to a heart and mind converted by the truth of the Gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation…

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23rd Sunday of the Year

Dear Friends in Christ, Saint Helena, who was born around 248 and died around 330, was the mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, and the end of the persecutions that followed Constantine’s conversion made it possible for Christians to worship publicly and without fear throughout the Empire. This new freedom…

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22nd Sunday of the Year

Dear Friends in Christ, Next weekend at all Masses we will take up a second collection to assist those afflicted by Hurricane Harvey. Please be generous so that the Church can assist those in need, especially those who had very little even before the devastation of this storm. This Wednesday, 6 September, is the beginning…

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