Sep 12: Day by Day with Father Bill
SATURDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME In 2019, the Black actor, Denzel Washington, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. The young Black actor, Chadwick Boseman, gave this tribute to his mentor: As you know Chadwick lost his four-year battle with colon cancer on August 28 at the age of […]
Sep 13 Homily Connect: Mercy and Forgiveness
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 13, 2020 SIR 27:30-28:7 ROM 14:7-9, MT 18:21-35 Scripture At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.’ Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan. […]
Sep 11: Day by Day with Father Bill
FRIDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME THE 19TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9-11 On September 25, 2015, Pope Francis visited the Ground Zero Memorial in New York City and offered this prayer: O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and religious traditions, who gather today on this […]
Sep 10: Day by Day with Father Bill
THURSDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME -from Christ Is Alive by Pope Francis Are you looking for passion? As that beautiful poem says: Fall in love!, because nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your […]
Sep 9: Day by Day with Father Bill
MEMORIAL OF SAINT PETER CLAVER, PRIEST Born in Spain in 1580, Fr Peter Claver spent his ministry in Columbia among the African slaves, many on ships destined for the Americas. During his forty years of unselfish love, Fr Claver baptized around 300,000 persons and heard the confessions of 5000 persons per year! A young, charismatic […]
Sep 8: Day by Day with Father Bill
FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY -From a prayer offered by Pope Francis in Fatima, May, 2017: Hail Queen, Blessed Virgin of Fatima, Lady of the Immaculate Heart, Refuge and path that leads to God! Pilgrim of the Light that radiates from your hands. I give thanks to God the Father who, […]
Sep 7: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LABOR DAY -from Christ Is Alive! by Pope Francis In these three truths – God loves you; Christ is your Savior; he is alive – we see God the Father and Jesus. Wherever the Father and the Son are, there too is the Holy Spirit. He is […]
Sep 6: Day by Day with Father Bill
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (-from a radio sermon by Saint Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador) “That is what the church wants: to disturb people’s consciences and to provoke a crisis in their lives. A church that does not provoke crisis, a gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not […]
Sep 5: Day by Day with Father Bill
SATURDAY OF THE TWENTY-SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (From Fr Dan Corrou, SJ, an American Jesuit stationed in Beirut as Regional Director of Jesuit Refugee Service-Middle East in the aftermath of the explosion of stored ammonium nitrate on August 4) “During the initial cleanup, I found myself alone in the Jesuit church covered in dust […]
Sep 4: Day by Day with Father Bill
FRIDAY OF THE TWENTY-SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (from Christ Is Alive! by Pope Francis) Every other solution will prove inadequate and temporary. It may be helpful for a time, but once again we will find ourselves exposed and abandoned before the storms of life. With Jesus, on the other hand, our hearts experience a […]