https://youtu.be/Xf2SvNgUeAc Advent begins tomorrow, and today is the last day of the Liturgical Year. Father Jerry encourages us to bring light into the new year, to be a sign of God’s compassion in our midst, to bring to birth the advent of the Christ of God. He offers, “May we decide that 2021, no matter […]
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Happy Thanksgiving from Father Jerry!
Today is Father Jerry’s favorite holiday. In his very emotional homily, he reminisces about traveling home, spending special time with each family member, sharing recipes, and hearing stories from around the dinner table. Click the video above and spend a few minutes celebrating with Father. It’s a sure guarantee to drum up some of your […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
https://youtu.be/dwT_TFiR0g8 Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a virgin and martyr. Catherine was a learned woman of the early 4th Century who, according to legend following her conversion at the age of 18, preached the gospel throughout Alexandria in Egypt. While imprisoned by the Emperor Magnus Maximus, she converted both […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc
https://youtu.be/HH3NTUYFYmo Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, priest, martyr, and companions, also martyrs. During the 17th to the 19th centuries in Vietnam, some 130 Christians suffered cruel martyrdom, many by decapitation or strangulation. Today, 117 most of them killed between 1820 and 1840, are remembered. They include seven Dominicans, 10 members […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Miguel Pro
https://youtu.be/2Pkr8BGhPpc Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Miguel Pro, who on the 23rd of November 1927, at the age of 36, was martyred for his Catholic sympathies. He was a Jesuit, and was martyred during the government persecutions of Catholicism in the 1920s. As he was executed, he cried, “Long live Christ the […]
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