https://youtu.be/7CzXCvClQ6Q Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing, nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation might not perish.” The theologian Frederick Bruckner, in his book Peculiar Treasures, writes that today’s gospel is […]

https://youtu.be/Az4jO-Nc0w8 A newly retired woman had plenty of time. And she had plenty of fabric! She started tinkering, testing, and sewing. Soon she brought a batch of homemade masks to the local children’s hospital. Since last Lent, sewers around the country have taken up that vocation. The motivation is simple. “It’s like war time, how […]

https://youtu.be/OYKtNcwTcoo Today the church celebrates The Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord. Its central focus is the incarnation. God has now become one of us. From all eternity, God had decided that the second person of the Blessed Trinity should become human. Now, Luke 1:26-38 tells us the decision is being realized. The God-man […]

https://youtu.be/UPnqGNiYgEY In today’s homily, Father Jerry shares a story where two veterans visited the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. “With tears in their eyes, they touched the names etched into the black marble… The names of their brothers with whom they served in southeast Asia.” As they leave the memorial, one of the ex-POWs […]