Greetings, The Lord Jesus is Risen…Alleluia!! He is Risen indeed…Alleluia! This Easter proclamation of joy isintended to fill us with faith, hope and love in the continued presence of the Crucified One, Jesus Christour Lord, who has conquered sin and death and calls us to rise with him to Eternal Life. May we answerthat call …
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Greetings my sisters and brothers, I trust that your Lenten journey is progressing well, practicing the three main activities of this season, prayer, fasting and almsgiving. May our merciful and gentle God inspire us to give ever more attention to these as we make our way to the celebration of the Easter Triduum at the …
Greetings my brothers and sisters,In a couple of weeks we will begin our celebration of the Season of Lent with the distribution of ashes onAsh Wednesday. The ashes remind us, as one of the formulas for the imposition of ashes states, of theneed to, “Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel”. That is, …
Greetings my brothers and sisters,A very Merry and Blessed Christmas to all of you and a blessed and prosperous 2024 as well!I am sure you have heard by now of a document issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of theFaith, Fiducia Supplicans. Unfortunately, most of what you have heard probably has not been …
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Greetings my brothers sisters, Each year on the second day of November, we celebrate the Feast of All Souls. This follows theSolemnity of All Saints, a celebration of all those who have passed from this life and are enjoying eternallife in heaven. Some of these are recognized officially, that is, “canonized”, placed on the official …
Greetings my brothers and sisters, October 7 was the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Historically, this feast came about in thanksgiving toGod for a naval battle victory granted through the intercession of Our Lady by the praying of the rosary.While we are most likely not going to be involved in any naval battles, …
Greetings my brothers and sisters, As I write this article, I have just returned from a very pleasant afternoon at Oracle Ballpark, watchingmy two favorite teams in Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds and the San Francisco Giants,battle it out. (The Reds were victorious but since I root for both teams I really could not …
Greetings my brothers and sisters,This month the Church is celebrating the World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, from August 1-6. Severalyoung people from our communities in California are taking part (perhaps you are one of them!). Youmight think it odd to refer to the event as “Youth Day” when in fact it is for several …
Greetings my brothers and sisters, The first day of this month of July is the memorial of St. Junipero Serra, the Franciscan friar who foundedso many of the California missions and so can be considered the father of the Catholic Church in ourstate. In recent years, his contribution to the growth of this state and …
Greetings my brothers and sisters, On the third Sunday of this month we will celebrate Father’s Day and give thanks for the gift of ourfathers and all that they are and do for us. It might seem at times that our culture and society has givenless value to the role of fathers, even at times …
Greetings my sister and brothers, We are now fully into our celebration of Easter and the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia! Aswe come to the end of this month of May we will be celebrating his Ascension and the gift of the Spiritat Pentecost. May these celebrations bring us the peace and joy …
Greetings my brothers and sisters, As I write this article we are about to enter the holiest of weeks, in which Jesus entered the city ofJerusalem at the beginning of the week to shouts of “Hosanna in the highest” and exited that same cityat the end of the week, headed to Calvary, to shouts of …
