HAPPY FEAST DAY!!   Well today we celebrate the feast of our Holy Father St. Francis (1181-1226). I as sure the all of you have heard of him, if not you surly have seen a statue of him in a garden as a bird bath.     There is much that can be said about…

Hello, well here is another weekend. I don’t know how many of you are working or retired. Sometimes, as I remember, being a priest, weekends were defiantly work days. But it was a work the I truly enjoyed. I would not have stayed as long as I have if I did not enjoy the work…

Hello! Today we remember those angels that Jesus told us who view His Father’s face in heaven. We have come to know them as our Guardian Angel. Each of us has such an angel who has been with us from our first day until the present. I know that many of us have different ideas…

Greetings. Good day to you all. Today we remember yet another saint that is familiar  to most of us. She is St. Theresa of the Little Flower. She lived from 1873 to 1893. She was just 24 when she died of acute tuberculosis. She was a clustered Carmelite Nun and lived most of her short…

Greetings, I hope your week is going well. (Here’s that word HOPE again 😉 I would  dare say that most of our prayers are requesting God to help in some way or another. It might be for a problem we are going through or for a sick family member or friend. It could also be…

Hello!   Today we have another one of those feasts that we have from the tradition of our Church. It is the Feast of the Holy Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.    We know of these angels only for the book of Revelations. When we envision angels, most of us remember these little pictures of babies with wings,…

Hello.   This past week has been a little bit nuts for me. It seems that everything all happened at once. Be that as it may, I will keep this meditation short.   I opened one of my old notebooks and I have and found a sermon from Pope Francis which he gave in June…

Hello, and happy Sunday. Yes,, we are still in Ordinary Time and will be until the 29th of November when we will celebrate the First Sunday of Advent.   Today we hear yet another story, that Jesus uses to get His point across. Remember, stories are much easier to remember than facts and figures. And…

Hello. Hope all goes well.   As I wrote the above, I just remembered what I was going to write about, that being Hope. I said that I hope. . . We all hope for something. “I hope it will stop raining before the outing, I hope the gravy will come out good for lunch…

Greetings. Yes it is the end of another week. Where they go, I could not even begin to say.   Those of us who are old enough the “good old days” of the Church, where Friday was a day of fast, no meat, and if one could to attend Mass. Though those days are gone, it…

Hello, hope all is well. For the last few weeks, we have had some thunderstorms here in South Florida. I don’t remember it thundering as much as it has in the last few weeks. And let us not talk about the dark days we have had. It is like winter up north where it is…

The Greetings, In our day, we don’t have the opportunity to celebrate a person who lived in our “time zone”. Today we remember a person know as Pedro Pio (1887-1968), who was a Capuchin Franciscan Friar. He is known for his holiness and that he was blessed with the stigmata that St. Francis once was…

Greetings, I hope your weekend will be restful.   Well here we are yet in one more week. I don’t know about you, but these weeks seem to just fly by. I remember as a kid, saying to my mother “I can’t wait until Saturday so I can go horseback riding. The days are going…

Good morning. I pray that your week ahead will be a good one. Today we remember the author of the Gospel we have been hearing from for the last number of Sundays. Matthew, remembers the Tax Collector. And we all know how we feel about the tax collector.    But here is a man that…

“Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money?”   At first reading of this parable from Matthew’s Gospel, I am sure we all would side with the workers who who worked all daly long and find out that those who were only working for an hour are receiving the…

Hello,   What do you consider prayer? Where should it be said? What words should you use?    There is a little story of a novice in the monastery who asked his Abbot, “Is it OK if I smoke during prayer?” The Abbot, with a stern face said, “Not at all, Brother,” and he went on…