Dear brothers, on this day when you are instituted as lectors, taking a step closer to your diaconal ordination, I invite you to reflect on the importance of listening to the voice of the Lord. For how we listen to the Word of God will shape how we proclaim it.Read More

Just as Jesus manifested his glory to the Apostles before his Passion and Death,  so he reveals his glory to us today so that we will neither flag nor fail in our Lenten journey to Calvary.Read More

Behind the text of Matthew’s Gospel is the bedrock truth of our faith, that this obscure Rabbi from Galilee was, and is, the Incarnate Son of God: He is the Word made flesh, the very embodiment of the Torah, not as it is written on tablets of stone, but as it is inscribed on the...Read More

It is the Lord who called me and chose me – called me to be his follower and called me to be his adopted son – and then called me to be a priest. “It is not you who chose me, but I who chose you.”Read More

Your pastor is a disciple before he is a shepherd. He is to model what it means to live the Beatitudes. And his chief responsibility is to place at your disposal all the means necessary for you to grow in discipleship.Read More

Que, como San Juan Bosco, sepamos vivir las Bienaventuranzas con alegría y valentía, siendo signos del Reino de Dios en medio de un mundo herido, pero profundamente amado por Dios.Read More

Tonight’s liturgy presents us with parallels between David and St. Agnes and between David and Agnes and ourselves. Read More

Together we shall march, just as Martin Luther King, Jr., marched. Together we shall march into a future full of hope. Together we shall stand, courageously and peacefully, for justice.Read More