Happy New Year! Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. We need to learn lessons from the Holy Family: The Church encourages us to look to the Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph for inspiration, example and encouragement. They were a model family in which both parents worked hard, helped each other, understood and accepted each other, and took good care of their Child so that He might grow up not only in human knowledge but also as…
I’m writing this week’s message from my hospital room. All the while I’m thinking what will the doctor tell me, what will I have to do, and how long will I be here. Then I look out the window, see the snow, and think of Christmas. How Joseph and Mary were told “no room in the inn.” and had to stay in a stable to give birth to Jesus Christ. Then later having to flee the country because Herod wanted…
This is a Holy Day of Obligation but it also a day when we start a new year, making our resolutions and working to make things better in the new year ahead. Let us start this day and this year with Mass (Tuesday at 5:00 P.M. and Wednesday at 8:30 A.M. and 10:30 A.M.). The Eucharist is the Food of Eternal Life and gathering together at Mass to receive gives us that understanding that we are all working together, supporting one…