Posts from August 2024

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Desires Of Our Hearts

by Fr. Rich

When you read today’s Gospel, you hear Jesus reminding us that those desires in our hearts are a reflection of our everyday action, words and decisions. But what motivates those desires of our hearts? For some it is greed, jealousy, arrogance, deceit and folly. These desires cause us to take advantage of others rather than […]

Celebrate His Loving Presence

by Fr. Rich

In today’s Gospel, we hear how many of the disciples of Jesus could not fully understand or accept Jesus’ teachings about the Eucharist “to eat His Body and drink His Blood if we want eternal life.” Jesus confronted them on their beliefs. And we saw what many did, they left Jesus and followed their own […]

Understand the greatness.

by Fr. Rich

Some great men and women leave their memoirs to posterity. Others leave libraries and still others leave monuments to their achievements or teachings. Jesus was the only great spiritual figure to leave His “flesh to eat” and “His blood to drink.” These words in today’s Gospel may astonish us as it did his first disciples. […]

Elijah Cup Program

by Fr. Rich

A few years ago,we started and ran a very prayerful and successful Elijah Cup program to pray for vocations in the Church. Covid stopped that. We are re-instituting the Elijah Cup program this September. We are all aware of the need for vocations to the priesthood, the diaconate and to the religious life. But sometimes […]