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As we begin October, we also mark the month of the Rosary. The history of October having a special focus on the rosary goes back to 1571, and the day that became known as the feast of Our Lady of Victory. After the naval victory at the Battle of Lepanto on Oct. 7, 1571, by

In the Gospel we meet two sons; one says that he will go and work as his father asks but does not go, and the other says no at first but then goes and works. The sons symbolize two different groups of people Jesus would meet; the tax collectors and prostitutes who at first say

This weekend in our Gospel, we have the story of the day laborers who each are brought into the vineyard to work, some longer at the start of the day to the finish, some only an hour or two at the end of the day, but all are paid the same. The ones who worked

This past Wednesday evening, I was privileged to celebrate our kick-off Mass for faith formation. Over the summer, we welcomed Dave Rinaldi to our faith formation team who will direct evangelization at our parish, and work in conjunction with Kyle Finken who heads up faith formation. In addition, Lisetta Coppa continues to work in youth

This week, we commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11. I was in my first few days of seminary and remember watching it unfold on a TV in a hallway at Saint Thomas, and then back in my dorm room. If you remember that day, it’s one of those days we all know where we were.

For many this week marks “Back to School” time (though I’ve long since held school should always be out from Memorial Day to Labor Day – so apologies to kids as I have nothing to do with setting the schedule!).  Admittedly the fact that the days of me having to think about school starting again

Shortly before we were ordained, then auxiliary Bishop Richard Pates gave each member of our class a framed quotation from Saint John Henry Newman. It’s his response to someone, and it can be summed up simply as “trust the Church.”  Newman himself came to see this gradually throughout his life. The son of a well-off

One time at seminary, we had a speaker talking to us on ecumenism, a fancy word on how we strive to work together with people of other faiths. She told the story of growing up how the Catholic kids would always cross the street on the way to school because on their path they walked

One of my favorite courses in seminary was an elective class we had on the virtues and their corresponding vices. The virtues are the gifts we are given from God at our baptism and by virtue of being born into this world. Among them is the virtue of hope. Hope as the virtue isn’t like

Last week, on Wednesday, July 29th, we celebrated the feast day of Martha, Mary and their brother Lazarus who shared a home. The feast was, up until 2021, Saint Martha’s Day, but I like the change made by Pope Francis, because taken together, the saints show us the importance of both work but also listening