1st Sunday of Advent (C 2009)
   Have you finished your Christmas Shopping yet?  There are only 26 days left until Christmas and considering the fact that our society no longer respects Sunday as a day of rest, all of those 28 days are shopping days.  How are we preparing for the coming of the Messiah?  The Gospel tells us today to be prepared, “Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the tribulation t

Thanksgiving (Ecumenical Service)
Tomorrow, we celebrate Thanksgiving Day.  What does it mean to give thanks?  In order to give thanks we have to realize that someone else has given us something that we did not deserve.  Have you ever been to a restaurant and the sign says. “For parties of six or more the gratuity is automatically included.”  If the tip is automatically included than it is not a g

Christ the King (34th Sunday in Ordinary Time) B 2009
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments a

33rd Sunday Ordinary Time B 2009
Everlasting horror and disgrace.  A time unsurpassed in distress.  Destruction. Doom. Wailing and grinding of teeth. The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky.  Heaven and earth will pass away.  But of that day or hour, no one knows.  Is this your view of the Final Judgment and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in all His glory? 

Tuesday of 32nd week in Ordinary Time
God loves us so much and He has given us so much that we often it take for granted.  But God is perfect in Himself and does not need us.   Yet out of His love, for love always goes out of oneself, out of His love for us, He created us in His Divine Image.  The great chain of being starts at the bottom with rocks, then progresses to plants, then to animals, then to humans, and then to angels.  The devil was