Ash Wednesday, February 10 Morning Masses at 6:30 a.m. & 8:00 a.m. (with cantor) Short Prayer Service at 12:15 p.m. Evening Masses at 5:30 p.m. (with cantor) & 7:30 p.m. (Solemn Mass & Schola Cantorum) All Masses and services include … Continue reading
As followers of Christ, this is the most important week of the year. Beginning with the pageantry and processions of Palm Sunday and ending with the stark quiet of Holy Saturday, the Church gives us an opportunity, through a wide … Continue reading
The sisters of Lazarus sent word to Jesus, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she … Continue reading
Last week, I encouraged us to view Lent as a forty-day stay in a really good rehabilitation center for our souls – one with the best doctor in existence. I said the first step was to spend time with an … Continue reading
Friday, March 20th 2015 we have a special Lenten Friday musical devotion. Starting at 7:30 pm we have a meditative service of Stations of the Cross which will be followed immediately at8:00 pm by a choral performance of a special … Continue reading
For most of my life I experienced Lent as a dreary annual punishment. Over the past few years, however, I have come to view Lent in a better way. As I started seeing sin more clearly as something by which … Continue reading
During the month of March, the Young Adults Group will partake of what we are calling an “Almsgiving Project”. All month long, the group will be raising money for the St. Francis Xavier Lay Missionary Society (XLMS), one of my … Continue reading
Last week I suggested we approach Lent as though checking our souls into a really good rehabilitation center – one where the best doctor in existence cares for us. Our acts of penance are sort of like the tasks doctors … Continue reading
Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared … Continue reading
For most of my life I experienced Lent – with its emphasis on sin and self-denial – as a dreary annual punishment. It was a season I dreaded but accepted vaguely as a necessary reality of life before Heaven. However, … Continue reading
