The hot summer months are always a good time to sit, relax, and remember. So, I begin with two snippets of grandmotherly wisdom, one a personal story and another, one that occurred right here—in our day chapel. Nearly thirty years ago, yours...
This parable of the Sower contrasts our many human limits with God’s love-driven boundlessness and infinitude. Due to our physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological limits and to the restricted resources available, we can insist on placing our...
Oh, St. Anthony look around; something is lost and cannot be found. Or is it ‘someone’ is lost? Ever think about where you fit in a sociological sense or belong within the body of Christ? What role do we play in the...
This parable of the Sower contrasts our many human limits with God’s love-driven boundlessness and infinitude. Due to our physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological limits and to the restricted resources...
Permanent deacons know, or at least they are told, what they are getting into. From the earliest stages of formation, candidates for the permanent diaconate are reminded that their marriage and their ordination are...
The hot summer months are always a good time to sit, relax, and remember. So, I begin with two snippets of grandmotherly wisdom, one a personal story and another, one that occurred right here—in our day chapel...
Once there was a British story named Tom Brown’s School Days; it was about a very popular boy named Tom who was a student at an English boarding school. He and a dozen other boys lived in one of...
One summer morning a farmer named Ned was helping his neighbor Willy build a new fence, but the work was going slowly. Finally, Ned deliberately dropped a fence post in a muddy puddle of water, splattering both men with...
Tycen Proper, a 19-year-old Ohio man, was arrested with five others and charged with attempted murder of a federal officer and others at the White House UFC Freedom 250 event late in June 2026...
It was a loud, almost raucous, crowd that had assembled in the large building. Today would mark a major moment in their lives. Soon the man who would preside over the festivities stepped out onto the raised platform and...
Fear no one! (Matthew 10:26) This statement from Jesus can be better understood if taken together with what is written in the preceding verses. In colorful yet mysterious tones, Jesus conveys in them the notion of the...
Once upon a time there was a woman who was very proud of the fact that she greatly wanted peace in the world and an end to all warfare and violence, crime, family divisions, hunger, poverty, disease, and every other...
At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. We should not have any trouble believing that Jesus is crying inside; that...
Helena Kmieć comes from Libiąż, a town west of Kraków. Poles have only a vague sense of where it is. Let us be honest: most Australians and Americans’ knowledge of Europe becomes hazy beyond Italy, Germany, and France...
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Deacon Kurt Godfryd
Fr Dino Vanin
Michael Baglino
Deacon Gregory Webster
Jennifer Borek
Fr Joseph Esper
Paul Suski
Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Thomas Addis
Deacon Steve Greco
William Borst
Carolyn Humphreys, O.C.D.S.
