Dear Friends in Christ, With this Fifth Sunday of Lent, the Church enters the final part of Lent: Passiontide. From today until the Vigil of the Resurrection in the night of Holy Saturday, crosses and statues are veiled and the sacred liturgy of each day takes us more deeply into the heart of the Paschal…

Dear Friends in Christ, The full and complete reality of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church exists in every diocese (or, in the Christian East, eparchy), because each diocese or eparchy consists of a bishop surrounded by priests and deacons, together serving all of the baptized in the territory of the Particular Church. This…

Dear Friends in Christ, The first principle of Evangelical Catholicism says that “the Lord Jesus is the crucified and risen Savior of all mankind, and no human person can fully understand his life or find his dignity and destiny apart from an authentic friendship with the Lord Jesus. It is not enough to know who…

Dear Friends in Christ, 1. In 2002 we closed the church for ten months of restoration work, during which we installed a new system of heating and air conditioning. That new system has served us well and is still in excellent mechanical condition, but the controls which allow us to monitor and change the operation…

Dear Friends in Christ, From today through Pentecost, we will be using the Apostles’ Creed at Mass instead of the Nicene Creed. This is a practice suggested by the Roman Missal because the text we call the Apostles’ Creed is so directly connected to the sacrament of Holy Baptism, the promises of which we renew…