In case you were not able to attend last night’s Good Friday mass or you just need to hear these words again here is the text of Deacon Jay’s homily. GOOD FRIDAY — March 25, 2016

When I was a kid, I dreaded Palm Sunday Mass. It wasn’t because the Mass was a little longer than usual, nor was it because I am allergic to palms – I’m not. No, it was because I knew that the whole congregation would join in the reading of the...

As we journey through Lent, let us reflect on its penitential practices. Penance is not an end in itself, but rather a help to recognizing the difference between “things of this passing world” and those “that eternally endure” (Preface II of Lent); a help to “raising up our minds,” so...

Reflection 3-6-2016 You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. (Matt. 16:3) Now snow, now sun, now cold, now warmth; the changes come rapidly and are accepted as part of life because that’s what weather does. Our lives change...