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For 21 May 2020, Thursday before Ascension Sunday, based on Acts 18:1-8

Jesus makes an outrageous claim to his apostles: that it is better that he should go. This the person who changed their lives forever at…

For 20 May 2020, Wednesday of the 6th week of Eastertide, based on John 16:12-15

Often in the history of the church and in the personal lives of Christians there has been persecution. People have taken the good works…

For 19 May 2020, Tuesday of the 6th week of Eastertide, based on John 16:5-11

The world is now in what is arguably the sixth month of the COVID-19 pandemic. The stress on people…

Newly ordained deacon and Rev. Brother Ben Keller, O.P., was ordained on Saturday, and already he is preaching to us the Good News.
Rev. Br…

Making the Choice for Christ: May 17, 2020 Homily by Fr. Patrick Hyde, OP

On May 16, 2020 Br. James Martin Nobles was ordained to the diaconate. That evening, at a Saturday Vigil Mass for the 6th Sunday of Easter,…

Fr. James Marchionda, OP exhorts us to look around ourselves and see the many reasons for hope that are manifest, and then to be ready to give witness to this hope to whomever asks.

Christ has called us, through his own example, into a greater love.  This new commandment is the ushering in of a new Messianic Age, an age…

On the Feast of St. Matthias we are reminded that authority is not something to be sought, but something which is accepted with humility…