Confirmation is a standing invitation to you to belong to God, to be a part of the people he has chosen to be his own, to be a person beloved by God and who finds joy in loving God by loving your neighbor.Read More

For the Eucharist we now celebrate is a foretaste of the banquet of heaven, where the glorified Christ, the Lamb once slain, sitting at God’s right hand, is praised, adored, and glorified by angels and saints as his marriage to a redeemed humanity is consummated in unspeakable joy.Read More

We are here to strengthen one another. To celebrate our faith. To reflect. To discuss. To discern. To share. And to return the mission field with renewed confidence.Read More

Do not be afraid to let your children hear God’s call. Even amid uncertainty—or perhaps precisely in the midst of it—the children who arrive today frightened may tomorrow become the priests, religious women and men, and fathers and mothers who sustain the faith of this country.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

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