"So that in all things...God may be glorified!"

Readings: Sir 3:2-14; Col 3:12-21; Mt 7:2-23 About two weeks ago my niece, Melissa, had her third baby—a little girl named Ally Rose. In the...

Readings: Is 52:7-10; Heb 1:1-4; Jn 1:1-18 There are two levels of meaning in the Christmas story. The first is the story of Jesus’ human bi...

Readings: Is 7:10-14; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 In this last week before the feast of Christmas the gospel passages at mass will recount all the...

Working at the soup kitchen was really cool. It wasn’t very hard work but I could tell it meant a lot to the people there. Most of the time ...

Readings: Is 35:1-10; Jam 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11 I’d like, first of all, to reflect on the difference between the first and second readings we j...

Today we celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas. Who is St. Nicholas and why do we celebrate him as a Saint? Relatively little is known about S...

Readings: Is 11:1-10; Rm 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 In last Sunday’s homily I reflected on the need to "get back to the basics" in evaluati...