Far from home and with no place to lie down except for a manger and no heat for warmth save for that emanating from the smelly stable animals, Mary and Joseph brought their son into what might seem an impersonal and uncaring world. Continue reading A Light that Shines in the Darkness; Bishop Jon’s Christmas Letter
The prophet Jeremiah speaks to us in the first reading today about the sorrow that God has when he looks upon the world. He talks about violence and famine and the general disarray that occurs when times are bleak. During these times God seems hidden to the people, sometimes it seems that we have been forgotten by God. Continue reading Lord, Hear Our Cry; Tuesday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
Before Mary became known as Our Mother of Perpetual Help, she was simply Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Yet what power is present in that motherhood. We can all relate to a mother, and a mother can relate to us. Continue reading Here is Your Mother; Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Have you ever stopped to think about the countless lives before yours that led directly to your own? How many young couples have fallen in love, raised families, experienced life, came and went in order that you might be here reading this today? Continue reading God’s Plan; Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist