One week after Pentecost we celebrate a feast in honor of the Most Holy Trinity, the mystery that is at the center of our faith.  This mystery cannot be scientifically proven.  It is a mystery which required God to reveal to us. God is one and God is three.  We tend to think of the […]Read more

Forty days after Jesus rose from the dead, He ascended into Heaven.  However, before doing so He told the apostles: “I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24: 49).  Jesus spoke of the same promise at the […]Read more

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Garagin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human being to journey into “outer space.”  A rocket took him away from the earth which he orbited once before safely returning.  Later, Nikita Khrushchev , the leader of the Soviet Union, speaking to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, said: “Why […]Read more

Will Artificial Intelligence and Robots replace humans in the workplace? Will people no longer be slaves to their jobs but instead have unlimited leisure time? Won’t that be wonderful? These are important questions that the world and the Church face today. And the answer that Scripture and Church documents provide is “NO!” While leisure and […]Read more

Some years ago, in a television report from Jerusalem, a reporter said “I’m standing in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, one of the holiest places in all of Christianity, where Jesus is buried.” NO! That’s where Jesus WAS buried. On the Sunday after He was crucified the followers of Jesus went to […]Read more

Imagine the moment when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and announced that God wanted her to be the mother of His Son, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.  St. Bernard, the 12th Century monk and Doctor of the Church imagined that moment in a homily where he addressed Mary at the moment of […]Read more

Today we celebrate a great solemnity which in some places is even a holy day of obligation.  We honor St. Joseph, the Husband of Mary and Foster Father of Jesus, the Son of God.  Though not one word of his is recorded in the Gospels, he was a powerful presence in the life of the […]Read more

St. Patrick was born in the year 389 in the Roman colony of Britain.  As the Roman Empire collapsed, Irish pirates crossed the channel and invaded Britain, taking many captives as slaves, including the sixteen-year-old Patrick.  In Ireland his master put him to work watching over herds of animals as they grazed.  However, this enslavement […]Read more

On February 11, 1858, Our Blessed Mother, holding a rosary, appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a fourteen-year-old French girl who was gathering firewood for her family.  Mary appeared seventeen more times until July 16, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. At first, not knowing who the mysterious woman was, Bernadette asked her if she […]Read more

The human memory is very important to God who wants us to remember the wondrous things He has done for us.  But one of the effects of Original Sin is forgetfulness and the tendency to focus on what is negative.  And so God tells people to focus on Him and His blessings.  This is why […]Read more

More than fifteen centuries before the birth of Jesus, Moses led the Israelites from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land.  As they camped near the Jordan River across from Jericho, the Moabite king, an enemy of the Israelites, summoned a pagan prophet named Baalam and told him to curse the Israelites.  But instead, God […]Read more