Sitting around the Thanksgiving table last week, I was fortunate to be surrounded by family, enjoying a wonderful meal. So many people do not have a home or enough food to feed their families. Others have lost their loved ones, or cannot travel to be with them. I am so…
The last Jubilee of the Catholic Church was in 2000, in celebration and preparation for the new millennia. Jubilees are special years on our faith for the remission of sins and universal pardons. Normally occurring every 50 years or so, this Extraordinary Jubilee was only announced in March. Traditionally, pilgrimages…
I have been reflecting on the amazing experience of the World Meeting of Families and the moment I watched my wife with my youngest daughter both awestruck as Our Holy Father passed by, gleaming white in his Popemobile, only 30 feet away from them. It still brings tears to my…
I cannot even conceive that it has been a full year since I first was given the immense responsibility, honor, and duty to manage the Parish Mission of Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church. There have been so many changes, so much activity, such a powerful thrust of positive, joyous…
Today was one of the most important days of the World Meeting of Families, with essential discussion of the “field hospital” that is the Catholic Church, engagement with various groups of Catholics and a powerful religious experience with the relics of Saint Pope John Paul II and the Basilica of…
