Seeing the “Our Father” as the Gospel passage today there’s a bombardment of thoughts that came to mind.  It’s the most common, known prayer in all of Christianity.  There’s some incredible reflections that Saints have…

When I first looked at the readings today I thought it was a mistake.  I thought that the website I look at for the daily scripture must’ve gotten their “Wednesday’s” confused and that we were…

Sorry everyone, forgot to post yesterday (Monday, June 15th) homily online... Thanks for the messages and your interest... MONDAY: A Jezebel If you ever wondered where the negative connotation to the name “Jezebel” comes from, today’s…

A few years ago, one of the strangest, not to mention tragic, stories made international headlines for good reason.  A 49 year-old Russian woman died from a heart attack that was brought about by the…

Over the last few days, Cardinal Tobin, the Archbishop of Newark announced the next “phases” of resumption of Public Masses with “Phase 2" beginning Mon June 15th and “Phase 3" the weekend of June 20/21. …

This week in the scriptures of Daily Mass we’ve been hearing in the first reading from the Old Testament book of Kings about Elijah the prophet. If you ever questioned God’s providence before; then the…

If there could be a word to describe how many people are feeling, at least anecdotally hearing from parishioners, students, friends and family - it would be weary.  After months of fear, anger, worry (on…

There’s a temptation for us when we hear the Beatitudes (in today’s Gospel) to kind of wonder where we fall on the list. We do a quick scan as we go up and down that…