I can’t believe it’s already July.  Time is just going by so quickly.  As we celebrate the birth of our nation, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday with your family and friends.  Holidays are special times when we can enjoy one another’s company in a relaxing setting.  Whether we are home, at the beach or in the mountains, we have an opportunity to slow down.  So much goes by us so quickly. Pause. Stop. Look around. (Read more…)

This coming Saturday we celebrate the Fourth of July, Independence Day.  On this day, we call to mind the birth of our nation. As Catholics, we are called to truly cherish in a very special way the many freedoms we enjoy in this country, freedoms not available to many people in other parts of the world.  Our bishops have called on us to reaffirm our commitment to appreciate and guard our freedoms, especially our right to religious liberty.  (Read more…)

I came across this article to share with you:

“It was Theodore Hesbergh who said: “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”  In some ways this insight almost seems too simple.  After all, don’t we expect a lot of other things of fathers – namely, that they would provide, protect, and nurture?  Yet when we consider that marriage is the foundation of the family, then it follows that children need this solid foundation more than anything else a parent can give them.  (Read more…)

Today is the great Feast of Corpus Christi, when the Church with joy celebrates the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.

In 1247, the Feast of Corpus Christi was celebrated in France for the first time.  It gained widespread acceptance throughout the Church after 1300.  The Feast is generally considered to reflect the Holy Thursday Mass, but without its sorrowful connection to the Passion.

An outdoor procession has been an integral part of Corpus Christi since its beginning, and may have originated from the procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose that is conducted on Holy Thursday.  (Read more…)

We might have thought that before God created the angels and before he created the people on this planet, He must have been alone out there somewhere.  But when God sent His Son to save us, we learned that God was never alone.  He was always a family, a sharing community of three – Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

The three Persons in God are so united in love and submission to one another that the three act as one, always in perfect harmony.  (Read more…)

John XXIII, who was made a saint on April 27, is remembered by many for his warmth, simplicity, social conscience and sense of humor. Pope Francis, who canonized “the Good Pope,” recalled his predecessor as being holy, patient and a man of courage, especially by calling the Second Vatican Council. “He was a man who let himself be guided by the Lord;” Pope Francis has said. But the Italian Pope John was also guided by his cheerful disposition and his simplicity. (Read more…)