My name is Father Andrea.  I am originally from Italy and I have been a priest for two years.   I was almost 8 years old, when my father died of cancer.  Although my father was baptized, he did not grow up going to Church.  In fact, as an adult, he had fallen far away from […]

When I was a child, my parents periodically received carton boxes full of supplies for our family business. When empty, I had so much fun building “mansions” out of these carton boxes! As I grew up, I learned that one cannot build anything strong out of flimsy materials such as these… but this is not […]

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, was a French Roman Catholic nun and mystic, whom Our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to between 1673-1675. During these eighteen months, the Lord Jesus revealed twelve promises to St. Margaret Mary for those who would respond to the pleading of His Heart and make an effort to return His love. This […]

While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, ‘Take it; this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which […]

Each one of us has experienced the 2020 pandemic in a unique way.  I have personally experienced it with some intensity, as the city I come from, Madrid, was impacted in dramatic ways.  It brought to the forefront the value and dignity of each and every human life – particularly the elderly and the most […]

“Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.” (Ps 104:30) It was her birthday and she was turning eight years old. (She is so excited for the day she will receive her First Holy Communion, recently postponed due to COVID-19.) She’s the darling of her doting older brothers & sisters and […]