In taking this step towards the diaconate, you seek to answer Jesus’ prayer for laborers for the harvest. An acolyte, “akalouthos”, is a follower of Jesus Christ, a disciple, and a co-worker with him in the vineyard.Read More

When we are doers, not talkers, when we build on solid rock, we experience over time a growth in intimacy with the Lord, a greater sense of communion with his Church, and a greater affinity with the poor with whom Jesus identifies.Read More

Indeed, the beginning of a new year of grace sheds light on the most essential role of your pastor and of every pastor, namely, to lead the people he serves to share every more deeply in all that the Lord taught and did to bring about our salvation: the mysteries of his Incarnation, his life...Read More

Let us recall why we are doing this – we are doing it for the same reason that Mother Lange started this school: she was an educator who gave young women of color a chance to claim their dignity, to develop their talents, and to spend their lives glorifying God by their works. Times have...Read More

Today, in Confirmation, you receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit to help you choose to live in Jesus’ Kingdom every day of your lives.Read More

These priests shepherded many in the name and person of Christ. Now it is our turn to commend them to the Good Shepherd, asking that the Lord walk with them through the valley of death and lead them to the good pastures of the heavenly Kingdom.Read More

Albert kept faith and reason together, in relation to one another. He gazed upon God’s creation with the eyes of faith all the while penetrating it with the God-given tools of reason.Read More

You are here today to support one another in growing in faith, love, and hope as the path to Christ. In Mary, we see how these virtues filled her with grace, opened her God’s initiative, and enabled her to consent to her unique vocation, a vocation which led her to share fully in the sufferings...Read More