Strength of Faith So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to […]
Reflection for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020
Blessed those. “But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what […]
Reflection for Maundy Thursday 2020
How shall I make a return to the LORDfor all the good he has done for me?The cup of salvation I will take up,and I will call upon the name […]
Time for a Catholic Break?
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with […]
Reflection for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, First Communion, and 50th Wedding Anniversary Blessing
The storm has no power. A violent windstorm came up. The waves were breaking into the boat so that it was quickly filling up. But he was sleeping on a […]
Bishop Bernard’s Pastoral Letter on Vocations
To read the original version as a PDF file. June 1, 2018 To the Very Reverend, Reverend Fathers and the Reverend Messrs., and my dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ […]
May 2018 Newsletter – With Us, In The Middle
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. We can get caught up in […]
Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Easter 2018
Condemned or free? Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do […]
Reflection for Sunday in the Octave of Corpus Christi 2017
Turn up the dial! Jesus said to the Jewish crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread […]
February 2017 Newsletter – What Kind of Love?
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Christians, in attempting to understand the tremendous nature of God, Who sent and sacrificed Himself out of […]
