EPIPHANY

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Mt 2:1-12  Dear Friends, The Infancy Narratives in Matthew in chapters one and two are called a miniature Gospel. They affirm three basic po...

HOLY FAMILY

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Mt2:13-5, 19-23  Dear Friends. The fundamental message of our Christmas Season is that “the Word was made flesh” (Jn 1:14) . The emphasis is...

CHIRISTMAS REFLECTION

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As we celebrate this Christmas day the truth is that we have no place on earth and no individual that is free from the consequences of our f...

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Mt 1:18-24 Dear Friends, No matter how much we try, it is a truly an uphill battle to truly grasp , “Jesus is the reason for the Season!” Ov...

THE FALSE SELF AND THE TRUE SELF-1

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Merton’s Gift Leading To Deep Personal Prayer   Recently, I had the opportunity to read, reflect on and pray with some of the many wonderful...

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Mt 11:2-11 Dear Friends, In today’s Scripture, Isaiah draws a poetic picture of the Jews walking away into freedom after fifty years of angu...

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Matt 3:1-12 Dear Friends. Advent is an invitation to ponder the Christian perspective on time. Time, for the Christian, is not the relentles...

THE FALSE SELF AND THE TRUE SELF

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Introduction I am going to offer the following eleven reflections on Thomas Merton’s teaching on the True Self/False Self dynamic. This conf...

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Matthew 24:37-44 Dear Friends, Advent invites us into a new year in which we journey with the Gospel of Matthew. This is a graced time when ...

CHRIST THE KING

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The Thirty Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Lk 23: 35-43 Dear Friends, On this feast of Christ the King, we celebrate a “kingdom of truth and ...

CALL TO HOLINESS-4

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Evangelization and Contemplation: Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus Over the past several years, I have called upon Teresa of Avila and Pope Francis...

THIRTY THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 21:5-19 Dear Parishioners, As the Church Year draws to a rapid conclusion, the Gospel message is once again a story of the end. Last week...

CALL TO HOLINESS-3

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THE JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE THE NEED FOR AN INTEGRATED SPIRITUALITY The traditional spiritualities such as the Carmelite, Jesuit, Franciscan, Be...

THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Dear Parishioners, Today’s challenge for Jesus is with the Sadducees. They were a small but powerful and elitist group in the Jewish hierarc...

Thirty First Sunday of Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Lk 19:1-10 Dear Parishioners, Luke gives us a truly rich character in the wealthy tax collector, Zacchaeus. In today’s story, Luke taps into...