November: For Parents Who Have Lost a Child
“Let us pray that all parents mourning the death of a child find support in the community and receive heart’s peace from the consoling Spirit.”
The feast day of St. Edith Stein is Aug. 9 (the day of her death in Auschwitz, 1942)
Novena to St. Edith Stein
Day 1: O St. Edith Stein, you sought truth with all your heart and found it...
On January 21, 2024, Pope Francis inaugurated a Year of Prayer ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, calling on the faithful “to pray more fervently to prepare ourselves to live properly this grace-filled event and to experience the...
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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity replaces the Ordinary Time Mass this weekend, so vestments are white again, even though they were green during the week for Ordinary Time (which resumed last Monday).
The Trinity is, of course...
Today’s readings grace us with the assurance that we are God’s very dear and beloved children (1Jn 3:1-2) and that Jesus, by whose name we are being saved (Acts 4:7-12) is...
Jesus transformed the greatest tragedy in life into Easter Power and the speciality of that power is that it is communicable. Have we experienced this communicable power in our lives? Have we succeeded in communicating it to others...
Today’s scriptural texts give us a few images to feed our faith. In the Gospel (Jn 12:20-33), Jesus will offer the image of the grain of wheat falling to earth to die so as to...
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year on behalf of all the priests that have served the parish.
Please keep us in your prayers.
Fr. Constantin
Rev. Carlo Cerrone (1972)
Rev. Henri du Halgouet (1972-1980...
Every year we celebrate Christmas. In every Christmas we celebrate the presence of God. How should we celebrate this wonderful gift of God’s presence in Christmas 2011? This Sunday’s readings give us...
Today is Gaudete Sunday. The name comes from the Entrance Antiphon from today’s liturgy. Every mass has an Entrance Antiphon (usually a phrase from scripture) assigned to it, and it used to be a custom...
Most Catholics rarely open their family Bible. And even fewer Catholics study what it really means. It is with this perspective that this week’s scripture reflection is given.
The readings for the second Sunday of Advent...
Advent places before us three challenges: watch, wait, pray. The readings of this first Sunday of the new liturgical year underline them. “Stay awake”, counsels Jesus in today’s gospel (Mk.13:33-37), &ldquo...
Adam and Eve said “No” to God. Since then each member of the entire believing community has been engaged in the daily and lifelong struggle of changing that all too naturally arising “No” into...
In today’s readings, we are offered some excellent pointers in coping with our fears, not through logic or rationality, but through faith. Our ancestors in the faith have alluded to the universal human experience of fear...
This annual feast offers an ideal time to reaffirm the church’s belief that the bread and wine are truly changed into the body and blood of the Lord. There should be no question that this is the faith...
The last few Sundays we were focusing on divine gifts. The first gift we reflected on was Jesus’ promise that he would be with us always. The second gift was the gift of an agenda which...
Today we have gathered together to celebrate the liberation that is Pentecost. Luke, in today’s first reading (Acts 2:1-11) speaks of the Spirit in terms of “tongues, as of fire”, and of &ldquo...
Do you remember Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated? King&rsquo...