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 must say and what we must do.
St. Mary’s Catholic School Earns Archdiocese’s First Cardinal Newman Society Recognition Hagerstown, MD — On March 3, St. Mary’s Catholic School announced its recognition by the Cardinal Newman Society as a recommended Catholic school. St. Mary’s joins an exclusive group of only 38 high schools and elementary schools in the U.S. that have met the […]
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.
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.
When unexpected suffering and turmoil strikes families in our communities, Grief Ministry steps into action. In June 2025, this transformational ministry marked four full years of service to those who have suffered the pain and disruption caused by violence in Baltimore City. One afternoon this past August, I met with its director, Yvonne Wenger, to […]
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.
When we embrace the poor and lowly, encountering them not as a problem to be solved but as persons made in the image of God, then it is that the Law of Love is fulfilled in us.
That God bestows virtue upon us doesn’t mean we don’t have to lift a finger. It means we need to gain a fuller understanding of what virtue is, how it relates to the totality of our humanity, and how it relates to what we believe as faithful Catholics.
Due to the extreme winter weather expected on Sunday, February 22, 2026 the Rite to Election has been cancelled at both the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, and the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg.
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 mind of God.
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore has appointed Mr. Jeremy Joseph as the new President of Archbishop Curley High School, following an extensive search conducted by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Archbishop Curley High School Board. Mr. Joseph, who currently serves as the school’s Principal, will succeed President Father Donald Grzymski, OFM Conv. Father Grzymski announced in September 2025 his intention to retire at the end of the academic year. Mr. Joseph will officially begin his tenure as President on July 1, 2026.
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.”
