We don’t understand the passion of Jesus Christ. Someone cuts ahead of you in line and you shout, no, me first! Like St. Peter and the disciples, we just don’t get Jesus’ message.
9.22.24 Bulletin
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
9.15.24 Bulletin
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The prophet Isaiah writes: the Lord GOD is my help; therefore, I am not disgraced. Can I say the same?
9.8.24 Bulletin
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Ephphatha!”— that is, “Be opened!” People brought a man who was deaf with a speech impediment to Jesus. He healed him to the amazement of all. In Christ, the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, yet many could not believe what they saw and heard.
9.1.24 Bulletin
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
We now turn from our 5-week summer discourse on the bread of life to the essence of the law and prophets, that is the law of love: you will love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and all your might, and Jesus would later add, you will love your neighbor as yourself.
8.25.24 Bulletin
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
In our first reading, Joshua says, “decide today whom you shall serve.” The gift of autonomy, to decide for ourselves, is fundamental to being created in the image and likeness of God.
8.18.24 Bulletin
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today the Wisdom of God manifests itself in the community of believers who spent time with Christ Jesus, saw his death, experienced his resurrection and ever since gathered on the resurrection day of the Lord, what we call Sunday, to break the bread, read from the scriptures, and to become the very Lord that they received.
8.11.24 Bulletin
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
We share the body and blood of the Lord Jesus at mass who says, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
8.4.24 Bulletin
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Israelites grumbled to Moses about the quail and manna that they ate in the desert during the Exodus. Jesus says that it was his heavenly Father who gave them the true bread from heaven. Are you thankful, or do you grumble about what God has given you or your neighbor?
7.28.24 Bulletin
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today we begin a 5 week stretch of readings from the Bread of Life discourse in Chapter 6 of John’s Gospel.
7.21.24 Bulletin
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
7.14.24 Bulletin
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
7.7.24 Bulletin
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
We are all preachers and receivers of the word of God. The prophet Ezequiel and St. Paul had difficulty preaching; even Jesus would not force people to open themselves to the word.
6.30.24 Bulletin
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
We know in the physical world that what goes up must come down. But with the Lord Jesus, what goes down, must come up.
6.23.24 Bulletin
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We have all known the storms of life: an accident, a chronic illness, a painful separation, an abuse of trust, or a death that tosses us into the dark waters that threaten to overwhelm us. We do have a choice in these situations; we can complain and blame, or we can trust the one who never abandons and calls us through his own life, death, and resurrection to enter the mystery of divine love that suffering breaks open.
6.16.24 Bulletin
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fr. Benedict Ayodi, OFM Cap originally comes from Kenya and currently serves in the Capuchin Province of St. Mary in New York. He graduated with an MA in International Affairs at the New School University in New York and is currently a doctoral student in Organizational Development at Manila University.
6.9.24 Bulletin
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Where are you?” the Lord God asks Adam, after he committed the first sin, and it is a good question to ask of ourselves.
6.2.24 Bulletin
Corpus Christi
Today, Corpus Christi, we celebrate in faith the New Covenant, the foundation of which is built upon the very blood of Christ, shed for us on the cross.
5.26.24 Bulletin
The Most Holy Trinity
Unlike other celebrations, the feast of the Holy Trinity is the celebration of mystery that, while breaking the rules of logic, proclaims that God is one, yet three.
5.19.24 Bulletin
Pentecost Sunday
50 days now since the resurrection we celebrate Pentecost when Jesus passes through locked doors to breathe the Holy Spirit on the frightened disciples gathered in the upper room.
5.12.24 Bulletin
Seventh Sunday of Easter
The Eleven cast lots to elect Matthias to complete the twelve Apostles to engage the mission for which they were chosen by Jesus.
5.5.24 Bulletin
Sixth Sunday of Easter
May is the month of Mary, when we celebrate the woman who said yes, making possible the birth of God into our world of blood, sweat, and tears.
4.28.24 Bulletin
Fifth Sunday of Easter
4.21.24 Bulletin
Fourth Sunday of Easter
4.14.24 Bulletin
Third Sunday of Easter
4.7.24 Bulletin
Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of the Divine Mercy)
3.24.24 Bulletin
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
3.17.24 Bulletin
Fifth Sunday of Lent
3.10.24 Bulletin
Fourth Sunday of Lent
3.2.24 Bulletin
Third Sunday of Lent
2.25.24 Bulletin
Second Sunday of Lent
2.18.24 Bulletin
First Sunday of Lent
2.11.24 Bulletin
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2.4.24 Bulletin
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1.28.24 Bulletin
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1.21.24 Bulletin
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
1.14.24 Bulletin
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
1.7.24 Bulletin
The Epiphany of the Lord
12.31.23 Bulletin
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
12.24.23 Bulletin
Fourth Sunday of Advent
12.17.23 Bulletin
Third Sunday of Advent
12.10.23 Bulletin
Second Sunday of Advent
12.3.23 Bulletin
First Sunday of Advent
11.26.23 Bulletin
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
11.19.23 Bulletin
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
11.18.23 Bulletin
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
11.5.23 Bulletin
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
All Saints 2023
Lake Como
All Saints signifies all people at all time who have professed and witnessed to faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. It includes those who have gone before
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Dr. Michael Brescia could have been one of the richest doctors in the United States. Instead he chose to be one of the holiest. His Sicilian grandfather taught him that
