Hello, hope all goes well with you and yours. How would you describe living in a world that war and strife did not exists. A world that there would be no poverty, no suffering, everyone would have enough and not without. Sounds a bit like what heaven may be like. Not having to worry about…

Hello, hope all goes well with you and yours. How would you describe living in a world that war and strife did not exists. A world that there would be no poverty, no suffering, everyone would have enough and not without. Sounds a bit like what heaven may be like. Not having to worry about…

Hello, hope all is well. Have you found yourself running through life that those you pass become more like a blur? If you are asked if you saw this on or that one, you would not even remember. Live is like that sometimes. The spiritual writer Leo Buscaglia says, “Too often we underestimate the power…

God day. Hope you are all well. Yes, I am still having difficulties with this computer. I just hope you all are receiving these meditation. Today’s Gospel, if it is the first time you are hearing this passage from Matthew’s Gospel one might get the wrong idea about how Jesus interacted with those who were…

Hello. Today we celebrate of the major feasts in the Church calendar. In some places it is known as the “DORMITION” or the “falling asleep” of Mary. We in the West know it as the Assumption. It is a feast when Mary was taken up into heaven, body and soul. As you know we do…

Hello, peace to you all. Today we remember Maximilian Kolbe, priest and martyr. St. Maximilian born in 1894 and died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1941. He was a Conventual Franciscan friar and had a deep devotion to Our Blessed Mother who he referred to as the “Immaculata.” After his first arrest he said…

Greetings, hope all goes well with you. Both my brothers have children and grandchildren. I know that they delight in the sight that their family grows into the future. Having worked in hospitals and the health care system, I cannot imagine what parents go through when they lose a child. I have seen the effect…

Greetings. I am sure there are days when, for whatever reason, you feel alone. Not just being with others, but a feeling in your being that you are alone. No matter how busy we are, we are always ready to welcome the phone call, the knock on the door. It has a very sinking feeling.…

Hello! Not too long ago I spoke about time. It is how we keep order of our lives, our days, weeks, months, years. It is how we calculate moment of our day. It is something we believe we have so much of until we don’t. The American author and businessman, Hervey McKay. once wrote, “Time is…

Greetings, hope all is well As I thought about what I would write to you today, I realized that on a Sunday, I usually center the theme on the Gospel. Well, as I read through the readings for this Sunday, I could not be drawn to the first reading from 1Kings:19:9a – 11-13a. Elijah is…

Hello, and a Happy Feast to all our Dominican Brothers and Sisters. We are told that Francis and Dominic met a few times during their lives. One of the hallmarks of the saints is that they say this earthly life as a testing ground of their faith and a preparation for the life to come. Each saw…

Greeting and a happy Friday. I guess this only make sense if your workweek is Monday through Friday. For homemakers, one day is very much the same as any other. Well anyway, A Blessed Day to you All. It’s nice to be served. You go to a fancy restaurant, and someone is there to answer…

Greetings. I pray that all goes well with yours. Today we remember an event that would have taken our breath away. The Transfiguration of the Lord. In the central part of the country of Isarel, is a large hill called Mt. Tabor. Tradition tells us that it was here that Jesus took his three closes’…

The Basilica of St. Mary Major is one of the oldest churches in Rome. It is the place that Pope Francis wished to be buried. Religious buildings have always had a special spot in the human heart. If we took a tour of Europe, we would see a number of temples and other religious spots where…

Hello, hope all goes well. Today we remember a very simple and holy man by the name of John Baptiste-Marie Vianney. John was a country priest in a small little out of the way parish. John almost did not make the grade to be ordained, but his simplicity and holiness moved his superiors to pass…

Greetings, hope all is well. I cannot believe it but here we are in starting the second month of our summer. Someone said on the TV the other day “as we enter the middle of summer. . . ” I thought, “wait, the middle of summer????” I guess it is true that “time waits for…