Virtual Parish Events

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Joy goes beyond happiness. Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens. It springs from gratefulness. When we begin to take things for granted, we get sucked into boredom. Boredom is deadly. Yet, everything within us longs for life, life in fullness.” (John 10:10) The key to […]

MEMORIAL OF THE QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Francis [of Assisi] recognized that there are two moments in our life with God. There is the moment when we are passive, when God’s grace overwhelms us, when we are forgiven, when we receive our new life in Christ. At this moment God is active; God […]

MEMORIAL OF SAINT POPE PIUS X (elected Pope in 1903, died on August 20, 1914) Pope Pius X’s ministry was filled with struggles. He chose to pit Christ against culture, so was very antagonistic towards what was called Modernism at the time. He closely monitored priests and theologians, especially those teaching in universities and seminaries, […]

MEMORIAL OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153), ABBOT AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH I love because I love, I love that I may love. Love is a great thing so long as it continually returns to its fountainhead, flows back to its source, always drawing from there the water which constantly replenishes it. Of all […]

WEDNESDAY OF THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty that the world knows all too well is rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in […]

TUESDAY OF THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Compassion asks us to go where it hurts to enter, into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion […]

MONDAY OF THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska* They’re both convinced that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still. Since they’d never met before, they’re sure that there’d been nothing between them. But what’s the word from the streets, staircases, […]

TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME May the Risen Jesus, who is our light in the darkness, ease your body, mind and spirit of all anxiety and renew you in his peace and joy! Here is a little relaxer for you. And here is Archbishop Mark Coleridge with his presentation on the Mass Series from the […]

SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Mary enters heaven to the joy of all the angels and saints, and so we pray: O God, through the intercession of Mary, number us among your saints in glory. Jesus, through your mother, Mary, you learned to pray, teach us to pray and to be […]