Last week I was invited to participate in a meeting entitled, “The way to Holiness.”Several people intervened and many different documents were read. During the different interventions I heard many words being mentioned such as “faithfulness,” “purity,” “prayer,” and “perseverance.” Nevertheless, I felt somehow “cheated” because the most important word […]

“The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.” ~Venerable Fulton J. Sheen In the Archdiocese of Boston, we are in the midst of the Year of the Eucharist. This year was promulgated by Cardinal Séan O’Malley after a recent Pew Report revealed that only one […]

When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands!” (Mark 6:2) These words from today’s Gospel […]

It’s an unfortunate reality that the time of the week when ethnic or racial groups are most separated from each other is Sunday morning.  One hundred years ago, in 1921, a Congregational Church in Washington, D.C. challenged these divisions. This effort brought to bear the First Race Amity celebration when […]

For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139:13-14)I have always loved this verse from scripture; in fact I have it on my living room wall.  A recent experience with hatching chicks has […]

I had a very special mother-in-law, who worried about everyone and sought a way to help her children with anything they’d need. Sometimes I would pick her up to take her to the supermarket, and while she was adding products to the cart, she’d look at me saying, “Do you […]

Corpus Christi is the feast of the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Today the Church remembers the institution of the Holy Eucharist.  The Last Supper was one of the most intense moments in the life of Jesus where he invites us to friendship with his Father. There, in the […]

On a cold winter’s day, Saint Francis walked with Brother Leo from Perugia to the Porziúncola (approximately a half day’s journey). Because of their poverty, they suffered much in the cold. At one point, Brother Leo asked Saint Francis: “Father, please, I beg you to tell me:  what is perfect […]

We live in a society with a lot of noise, and it is not just environmental noise, but a lot of spiritual noise as well. Although the noise of traffic, planes flying overhead, and construction in the street, fills our environment, it is perhaps the spiritual noise that affects us […]

This past Sunday in the United States, we celebrated Mother’s Day. On this day, we honor our mother’s, living and deceased, who made so many loving sacrifices for our benefit. For me, this year turned into, unexpectedly, a particularly treasured observance.On Saturday morning, the day prior to the holiday, I […]