Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

The parish welcomed joyfully Fr. Juan Lucca, who had spent a summer with us as a seminarian, to offer Mass here for the first time, and t...

My great-aunt Dorothy lived to be almost a hundred years old by guiding her life according to a mysterious source of wisdom known as ...

We’ve all heard today’s Gospel story before and we think we know the message:  It’s not a good idea to turn down an invitation.  It’s...

My mother hated custard pudding when she was a girl. But that was the dessert my grandmother served at lunch one school day, an...

Nearly 13,000 kilometers from here, in the city of Chennai, stands the beautiful church of St. Joseph. It is a picturesque building ...

Welcome to Christ the Redeemer’s final Stewardship Sunday! You are also welcome after Mass to our parish’s last-ever Stewardship F...

Last week one of the loveliest young women in our parish came to the 5 o’clock Mass looking like one of those photos you see on the intern...