In the advertising world - it’s rare that a marketing campaign would continue for many years, let alone decades.  Yet, the tag-line: there’s some things in life that money can’t buy. For everything else there’s…

For the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, one of the options for the readings at Mass [read here] comes from the Old Testament book called the Song of Songs - which we don’t get to hear…

Why is there this viral pandemic?  Why are there still all these shut downs - people having to wear masks, people losing their jobs, all the things that are causing our world to feel upside…

One of the beautiful things about Jesus’ parables is that he uses these everyday examples to make his teaching more relatable, more accessible to every body.  But I have to confess that this particular parable…

As St. Peter said to Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration - “It is good to be here.”  It is good to be back together at Mass in our Church.  Thank you for all your…

A week ago, Father’s Day, a friend texted me asking “How many ‘Happy Father’s Day’ jokes do you typically get today each year?”  As a priest, who has made promises of celibacy at my ordination…

If you tuned into Sunday’s last live-stream Mass, the Recessional Hymn we sang yesterday was one that we used on Ash Wednesday this past year.  The song is called “Greater will be the future.”  When…

What are you afraid of?  Not too long ago, there was a story that was published entitled Cancer Doctors Avoid End-of Life Talk.  It reported that many oncologists often refuse to tell terminally ill patients…