https://youtu.be/2B1IK6PvfMA “When I was a little boy, my grandmother kept a record of my growth on the door frame of her closet. On every visit, I’d stand very straight against the door frame and Nana would take a pencil and mark my new height on the wood,” said Father Jerry. “Then she would take a […]
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The Feast of Saint Barnabas
https://youtu.be/pAkXrSEbcYI “It is easy to compartmentalize one’s spiritual life and create comfort zones to feel right about oneself,” says Father Jerry in today’s homily, “One can also rationalize that reconciliation is secondary to worship and can be handled whenever. The phrase ‘your brother or sister has something against you’ suggests cases where we have wronged […]
Continue ReadingTrinity Sunday
https://youtu.be/8lLJrO_r65E Saint Augustine was walking along the seashore, contemplating how God could be three persons in one God. He encountered a little boy filling his bucket with water from the sea and emptying it into a hole he had dug in the sand. Augustine asked the boy, “What are you doing?” The boy responded, “I’m […]
Continue ReadingMemorial of Mary – Monday after Pentecost
https://youtu.be/YrUZ-RMQXvY If nothing else this pandemic has given many of us a new appreciation of church. We’ve missed the physical connection with the Holy God speaking to us the word made flesh. God sustaining us in the bread of life, that is His Christ. But we’ve come to appreciate one another as the church. On […]
Continue ReadingPentecost Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRtbsLx_GWw Pentecost is a Greek word meaning 50, which means it has been 50 days since the Great Feast of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday. Let us pray. God, who by the mystery of today’s great feast, sanctify Your whole church in every people and nation. Pour out, we pray, the gifts of the Holy […]
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