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

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

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

It takes all of us to counter the culture of vengeance, to transform it into a culture of trust, reconciliation, cooperation, and respect for the human dignity of each person and every community.Read More

We pray for a broken heart for only such a heart is open enough, big enough to encompass the pain and sacrifice of 9 / 11, to forgive our foes, and to place what we cannot grasp into the hands of the God who does. Read More

Let our joy be great, dear friends, for the renewing of the human race, signaled by the birth of Mary, continues in our midst – as Christ comes to birth in each of our hearts, as our priests carry forward the work of salvation, and as so many vocations are birthed in our midst.Read More