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 putting […]
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Finding Grace within our Republic of Suffering
A Statement by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego A deep and crippling sadness envelops this nation that we love so deeply. The peril and the burden of pandemic have worn us down. We have become isolated, cut off from so many of the joys that give meaning to our lives, and in many cases […]
Continue ReadingMemorial of Mary – Monday after Pentecost
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 the […]
Continue ReadingPentecost Sunday
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 Spirit […]
Continue ReadingHappy Memorial Day
“Today throughout the United States, we celebrate Memorial Day,” says Father Jerry in this morning’s new video, “The unofficial beginning of the summer, and the day on which we remember all those heroic men and women in our armed services, who gave their lives in the many wars that have been fought to safeguard the […]
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