We live in a busy world and many of us complain that we haven’t got time even for the things we consider of real importance. Yet deep down most of us are honest enough to recognize that we don’t manage our time very well and that we often waste time or procrastinate, looking for distractions. [...]
Today we hear about a young boy, Samuel, brought up in the house of the priest Eli. He thought he heard his master calling him, but eventually he was instructed how to answer the call. It was God who was calling him, and Samuel was to reply, “Speak, Lord, Your servant is listening.” From that [...]
The last Annual Parish Meeting was held on Sunday, January 9th, 2011. I started visiting our Parishioners while blessing their homes after the Epiphany of the Lord (January 6, 2011). I visited 11 (eleven) families. Thank you very much for your kindness and generous offerings. Baptism (2) in the year 2011 – Calli Renee Whitecavage [...]
St. John prepares the people for Jesus, and Jesus arrives and is baptized. It is so familiar that we run the risk of not seeing how amazing this story is. Firstly, John the Baptist has developed a big following and is an important spiritual leader, yet here he is telling the people that someone much [...]
Circumcision remained a command of God and a sign of membership in Abraham’s family. But it was more than this as well. In Leviticus, God himself revealed the true meaning of circumcision: “But if they confess their iniquity, that they have walked contrary to me, . . . if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, then [...]
Today we hear the beginning of St. John’s Gospel, in which the evangelist ponders the beginning of all things from the spiritual perspective. He begins on the grandest of scales: in the beginning, there was only God, and the Word was with God. Through this Word, everything came into being. Everything that had life, had [...]
There are times when we can be comforted by the romanticcised picture of Christmas with which we are also so familiar: the familiar story, the crib, memories of childhood, Christmas ritual. There are times too when we can see behind the story to the coming of God into the harsh realities of human life. We [...]
Among the influential names of world history are the founders of the great religions. Unique among them is the role played by Mary in the foundation of Christianity. In none of the other religions is an ordinary woman asked to play such an important role. In the mystery of the incarnation, the Lord empties himself [...]
On this Sunday the Church reminds us of the call to rejoice. “Be happy at all times,” says St. Paul in today’s second reading. We are called to have so much hope in our hearts and trust in God that we are able to do this in good and bad times. In the Gospel we [...]
Our lives, to be fruitful, must be full of Christ; to be able to bring His peace, joy and love we must have it ourselves, for we cannot give what we have not got – the blind leading the blind. The poor in the slums are without Jesus and we have the privilege of entering [...]
