16 December 2013
16 December 2013 Monday of the Third Week of Advent The first reading today is bizarre at best. It reports the account of Balaam, a pagan ...
15 December 2013
15 December 2013 Third Sunday of Advent “Hang in there, Baby!” That was the message printed under a picture of a cat on a poster that once ...
14 December 2013
14 December 2013 Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church. Today the Church celebrates the feast of “The Mystical ...
13 December 2013
13 December 2013 Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Mt. 11:16-19 “You can’t win.” How often we hear that expression of frustration, when ...
12 December 2013
12 December 2013 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Recently I was able to travel to Mexico on a personal pilgrimage. The level of civilization of ...
11 December 2013
11 December 2013 Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent Matthew 11:28-30 Perfection. We so labor under images of perfection, false images. ...
11 December 2013
11 December 2013 Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent Matthew 11:28-30 Perfection. We so labor under images of perfection, false images. ...
10 December 2013
10 December 2013 Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent Isaiah 40:1-11; Mt. 18:12-14 We live in a therapeutic age. I have known many people who ...
9 December 2013
9 December 2013 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patronal Feastday of the United States This is the patronal ...
8 December 2013
8 December 2013 Second Sunday of Advent Matthew 3:1-12: “’You brood of vipers….’” Repentance: that is the key word of John the Baptist. ...