The future of evangelization will depend less upon our ability to defend ourselves and more upon our willingness to be transparent, humble and faithful. Humility does not weaken the Church – humility purifies her witness.Read More
Encomendemos a todos los niños migrantes y a sus familias a María y a San José, que conocieron el exilio con el Niño Jesús en brazos. Que ellos nos enseñen a acoger, que hagan de nuestros hogares un semillero de vocaciones, y que Cristo, nuestra luz, brille sobre nosotros en estos tiempos inciertos. Amén.Read More
The altar before us is not merely a symbol of Christ. It is the place where Christ’s sacrifice is sacramentally made present. Here heaven and earth meet. Here Christ gathers His people into communion with Himself.Read More
When you pray a Rosary, offer up your sufferings, go out of your way to cheer up a fellow resident – you are being “sent out” as missionaries right here in St. Martin’s. You, like Therese, can be the hidden spiritual engines of the Church!Read More
Truly, God’s ways are not our ways. He often chooses those who are poor and lowly to be his ambassadors and witnesses in a jaded world. He makes them the bearers of messages of repentance and reform.Read More
And that is why we cling to Jesus – begging for the grace to say “yes” to God every day. No matter how difficult the day. No matter how vexing the people around us. No matter how unpleasant the task at hand may be, or how radically God is asking us to leave our comfort zone.Read More
To see you growing in faith and in your relationship with the Lord, to see your academic progress, you ability to make friends and work together, you growing physical strength, and to see your many talents – this makes us all very happy and very proud of you – and this is what makes IHM a truly great school!Read More
The work entrusted to you is nothing less than the formation of the human person— forming consciences, instilling virtues, leading many to become disciples of the Lord and active members of the holy People of God.Read More
For what are poverty, chastity, and obedience if not the joyful proclamation that true freedom is found, not in doing whatever we desire, but in becoming the persons God created us to be?Read More
Even if we cannot live exactly as St. Francis did, let us resolve to give ourselves entirely to Christ, so live our vocations and fulfill our daily responsibilities with minds and hearts renewed by prayer, penance, by the sacrifice of Christ offered on this altar about to be consecrated, and by our service to the poor and vulnerable in our...Read More
Whenever we gather, one place is uppermost in our minds and hearts: that place made holy by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Read More
When we allow the Lord to gaze on us with the eyes of mercy, we recover our own ability to look upon others with the eyes of mercy. To forgive. To seek forgiveness. To be peacemakers. Read More