My dear parishioners: Happy New Year to you! In everything our faith tells us that we must always give thanks and praise to God, the Father Almighty.  I am thankful to Him for His many blessings upon us as a parish family.  I must...

Christmas is almost here.  This Sunday is the last day of Advent.  In a few hours, we will join together again to celebrate Christmas Eve, the first day of Christmas.  As we approach the end of Advent, let me ask you if you are prepared...

Rejoice in the Lord.  Be happy.  Rejoice.  Today is a special Sunday.  Traditionally we call that Laudate Sunday, or Rejoice Sunday, because Laudate is a Latin word which means rejoice. We are called to be joyful people.  Catholics...

Today, the second Sunday of Advent, we focus on John the Baptist, one of the great prophets in the story of salvation.  He prepared the people to receive Jesus by asking them to repent.  John the Baptist proclaimed and called for...

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.” As we begin Advent to prepare for the birth of Jesus it is a bit...

Jesus used images from everyday life: workers in the fields; the birds in the air; the vineyard; shepherds tending their flocks, that people knew well and understood to teach many truths.  In today's Gospel Jesus uses images about...

The feast of All Saints teaches us that holiness comes in all sizes and shapes.  The saints are rich and poor, young and old, warriors and peacemakers, hermits and organizers of charities, parents and celibates, scholars and those who...

“I want to see again. I want to see again,” says the blind man to Jesus. It is beautiful story.  It is about the healing of blind man.  The first time I read this story, I said to myself, this is not for us because we are not...

The disciples of Jesus were not immune to temptations for power and prestige.  Despite all that Jesus had taught them and all they had seen him do, they still thought, or hoped, that Jesus had come to establish an earthly kingdom that...

The rich young man who asked Jesus “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” was probably a good person by the standards of his day.  He claimed to have kept all the commandments from his youth.  But he was looking for...