After we gather together as a community (the first act where we experience the real presence of Christ) we are ready to hear the word of God. The LIturgy of the Word is the second place in the Mass where …
It’s been interesting lately (cough, cough) how fires in Canada have been affecting (cough, cough) our breathing in the Ohio Valley. It’s even been affecting our vision, with what looks like fog but is actually smoke. As the saying goes, …
Image featured:The colonnade of St Peter’s reaches out to embrace those coming to the church This is the first in an occasional series of reflections on the parts of the mass “Enter, rejoice and come in Lift up your hearts …
With Pentecost and the end of the Easter season, the Church enters Ordinary Time. The name comes from the Latin word for order or counting, not the modern sense of the word as plain or “ordinary.” These are the weeks …
This quote from the prophet Isaiah was the title of the Vatican assessment of the synod reports of the various continents of the earth. It named concerns about groups on the margins of the church and called us to make …
When the Holy Spirit comes we will be clothed in δυναμις, Jesus says. Dunamis is the Greek word for power. I wonder how many of us think of a prayer for the coming of the Spirit as a prayer for power. How many …
I love those words from the Acts of the Apostles because they could just as easily apply to the church in our own day as to the early church. In Acts it refers to what happened when the Gentile Christians …
Native Americans in feathered headdress as finials at the American College in Leuven In looking over the pastor assignments that were announced this week I noticed something that was quite a bit different than when I was first ordained. …
As the Synod on Synodality continues we get another change that will help us to become a church that lives by listening to all its members. The Vatican announced on April 26th that 70 members of the 200 or so …