Let none of us (myself included) ever take the Lord for granted. He is not merely a prophet, nor merely a man wiser than the rest of men, but the Incarnate Son of God, the Word made flesh, the Crucified Lord, whose truth we cannot fully fathom and whose love exceeds imagination. To know him,...Read More

Long before the founding of the United States, Maryland was an early experiment in religious toleration .That experiment was imperfect and fragile, but it planted a seed that faith and freedom need not be enemies.Read More

After man born blind was cured, he bore witness to the Lord, just as St. Patrick did after he received the gift of faith. Let us ask the intercession of St. Patrick, that our vision of faith may be luminous, and that we, like him, might bear witness to our faith among family members, friends,...Read More

How we pray reveals what our relationship with God is like. In fact, prayer is more than a way of enhancing our relationship with God – prayer is our relationship with God, that time when we acknowledge him to be Lord, those moments when he reveals us to ourselves, those moments when we discern what we...Read More

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