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     “Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid…”  From the time that we were young we have lived with troubled hearts.  Our hearts are troubled by our separation from those who we love and who care for us. ... More Info →

    Love one another.  This new commandment given by our Lord to his disciples is a challenge that continues to confront us even today.  How can we live the commandment of love?  This world that we encounter every day of... More Info →

    “The Lord is my shepherd…” (Ps 23,1)  Over the years I have celebrated hundreds of funeral masses and at a great majority of these funeral masses we have sung the beautiful psalm that proclaims the goodness of the... More Info →

     In the musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye and Golde are struggling to keep their balance in a fast-changing world.  Their daughter Hodel has rejected the husband that they have arranged for her and has... More Info →

Move on.  One of the most debilitating problems that we face in life is the inability to move on.  We can so easily become stuck in our lives and rehash over and over again personal situations of pain and suffering in our... More Info →

The hour of Jesus draws near.  As Jesus draws near to Jerusalem, so does he draw near to his “hour”.  During the time that Jesus was traveling in Galilee and other regions, teaching, healing and feeding people, he often remarked... More Info →

When we were children we were natural tattle-tales and we took great pleasure in exposing some wrong that someone had committed.  “Oooh, you did this or that, I’m going to tell.” We would then often dance about and taunt the person... More Info →

    One of the basic principles of the moral life is “avoid evil and do good.”  Now there is a whole lot of evil out there in the world today.  There are many pitfalls that we can fall into, there are many occasions for... More Info →

   We have begun our journey through the 40 days of Lent.  This Lenten journey is largely about transformation.  We practice our Lenten disciplines, observe our fasts, turn our hearts to God in prayer, make our offerings and... More Info →

    The First Sunday of Lent we hear in the gospel of Luke that Jesus was “led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil.”  This began a period of purification and preparation ... More Info →