Dear brothers, we too have been anointed by the Spirit and sent to continue the healing and liberating mission of Jesus. The headwinds can be strong and the obstacles many but when we allow the Lord to liberate us from sin, from fear, from egotism, from attachments – then we are credible witnesses, for we...Read More

God’s love exceeds anything we ever knew or could imagine, and it is revealed afresh this morning in this sacred liturgy as we re-enact Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, there to be tried, condemned, and crucified for us and for our salvation –This is God’s ultimate self-expenditure on our behalf: "To ransom us slaves, God...Read More

Not all of us are called to heroic discipleship like Ignatius, but each of us is called to holiness and to some work God that God has entrusted to no one else.Read More

The Lord, who alone has power over life and death, responds, not by immediately performing a miracle but by deepening Martha’s faith, and then by lamenting the death of his friend – for death was never meant to be a part of his heavenly Father’s plan.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

I’m hoping and praying that your encounter with Jesus is also life-changing. In Confirmation the Holy Spirit enlightens the eyes of your soul.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 catechumens, you see what is going on in this Gospel: the Samaritan woman experiences purification and enlightenment at a well, a well which stands for the baptismal font, that flowing fountain at which you are soon to be cleansed and reborn.Read More