Advent Reflection - Wednesday, Week 1

Posted by admin on December 2, 2009

Luke 1:15-17
 

In the reference to drinking “neither wine nor strong drink,” the angel is describing a “Nazarite”. This is not someone from Nazareth, but a word used to designate a person set aside for the Lord’s special work. (The legendary strong man Samson was a Nazarite.) The angel also likens John to Elijah, one of […]

 Advent Reflection - Tuesday, Week 1

Posted by admin on December 1, 2009

Luke 1:8-15

The angel tells Zechariah that his prayer has been heard. We hadn’t been told what Zechariah was praying for, but now we know. He was praying for Israel, of course, as a Jewish priest would do. But he also was praying for a child.
Sometimes we’re afraid to pray for things that seem unrealistic.
Three times […]

 My Life Mission — a Prayer

Posted by admin on November 27, 2009

John Henry Cardinal Newman
The Mission of My life
God has created me to do Him some definite service.
He has committed some work to me,
which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission – I may never know it in this life,
but I shall be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, […]

 Sending off a fine young man…

Posted by admin on August 23, 2009

This past Sunday after the closing prayers at Mass, I had the privilege and honor of helping to send off one of our parishioners to seminary.  As DRE, I presented him with a check to help with tuition, and gave prayer cards to all who were attending Mass that weekend.  I told reminded those at […]

 Chaplet for Priests - Pray for Priests in the Year for Priests

Posted by admin on August 8, 2009

As a response to the declaration for this the Year for Priests, and as a personal commitment to praying for vocations, we have designed a beautiful, yet masculine, prayer tool: the Chaplet for Priests.
The chaplet is composed of 3 very special intentions:

an increase in […]