September 14, 2025
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross We’re bumping the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time today to celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Father Eymard must have loved this feast because its message inspired his most profound reflections about the gift of self. Let’s begin our own reflection using today’s […]
September 13, 2025
Memorial of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor My good friend gave me the plaque hanging in our garden “The garden is my happy place.” Indeed, it is! Today’s Gospel powerfully speaks of the garden. “For every tree is known by its own fruit and a good tree does not produce rotten fruit.” As gardeners […]
September 12, 2025
Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Mary On September 8, the Church celebrated the Nativity of Mary, nine months after her Immaculate Conception. Today, the Church honors the Most Holy Name of Mary. We also commemorate today the approval that Father Eymard received from the bishop of Angers, France, in 1864, to establish […]
September 11, 2025
All of us who participate in our daily Eucharistic reflections are well aware of the significance of the date 9/11/2001. We lived through a traumatic event in our country, and we carry it in our hearts. Has it changed us? If so, how? Gratefully, we will never know how many people lived because of the […]
September 10, 2025
Corner Time-Out Perhaps someone in our lives has chastised or scolded us for some unacceptable behavior. A parent, grandparent, or teacher did not hold back and advised us against certain actions, telling us how we should behave. Those wardens of righteousness are no longer with us. So, who tells us now to go and stand […]
September 9, 2025
Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, priest When we read the history of Saint Peter Claver, we encounter astonishing numbers—over 300,000 baptisms overall and 5,000 confessions heard each year. Nearly all of this was done among those held in slavery in what is today Colombia. His encyclopedia entry states that, “He is considered a heroic example […]
September 8, 2025
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The prophet Micah speaks of a small, humble place, Bethlehem, chosen by God to be the birthplace of the One who will shepherd His people. This prophecy, spoken centuries before Christ’s birth, already held within it the hidden joy of today’s feast: the birth of his […]
September 7, 2025
Many of us like to imagine being in close companionship with Jesus, not unlike Jesus’ disciples in Palestine. We imagine ourselves travelling with him as he goes from place to place. We are there when he heals the sick and cures the blind. We feel his pain and suffering. We listen attentively to his preaching […]
September 6, 2025
I don’t know if it is from a “built-in” desire for justice in the human heart that we find ourselves often asking questions like: “Why is that person allowed to do this? Why am I not allowed to do that?” We have a tendency to look outwards and compare to make a judgment of what […]
September 5, 2025
Optional Memorial of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Virgin In today’s reading from his Epistle to the Colossians, Paul describes Jesus as “the image of the unseen God.” It is through the Incarnation that God became flesh in Jesus and made the invisible God present by his words and deeds, his healings and his announcement that […]