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Greetings, well it looks like I am getting the hand of this new computer. I should not gloat over it , the whole thing could come apart even as I write this to you. All during this new adventure, I have truly been tried to be patient. A friend of my called me and encouraged […]

Greetings.I am sure that you have been inspired by what you read or what you have heard from someone. It is amazing where and when God will send us a message that will move us or enable us to accomplish a task that we are working on. As I have told you before, I have […]

Good morning. Hope your week is going well.I don’t know about you, but sometimes I find myself during my pryers or meditation, wondering who God is. I think of story creation in the Old Testament. God saying let us make . . .  I wonder about the size of the universe, which no one really […]

Good day to you all. Here we are again as we were yesterday celebrating the sorrow of a mother who stood at the foot of the Cross watching her only child die a horrible death. Let us read what St. Luke tells us in the second chapter of his Gospel. Following the Law of Moses, Joseph and […]

Hello. Hope all is well.It would seem ironic that we should call this day the “feast” of the Holy Cross. An installment of a gruesome, painful, long lasting way to be put to death. But we see this Cross adorn our homes and in our churches. We sign ourselves with the “Sign of the Cross”. […]

Hello. I hope this finds you all well.Our Gospel today speaks to us about something we all find very difficult to do. That is to FORGIVE another.Depending on the fault we have committed, those two simple words “I sorry” always seem so hard to say. But we know that forgiveness is something we all are […]

Hello, hope all are well and that you have a restful weekend ahead of you. How many times have we put aside our ideas, our dreams, our hopes because someone said that we were foolish to believe that something like that could come to be. How many of our dreams have never come to fruition  because […]

Hello,25 years ago. Can it be so long ago that we experienced the horrible event that took place? Let us pray that God gives us the gift of understanding. An eye for an eye just does not work any more. We start with an eye for an eye. Then a building for a building. Then a city for […]

Hello, yes, it’s me. Sorry for the mix up with sending out the wrong days and the other mix ups. It is truly a learning curve. I would dare say that we all say prayers of petition.  We say our novenas for nine days, we say the correct number of prayers, we follow the instructions to […]

Hello, Well, it looks like we are back in business, for now anyway.I will be sending you the meditation on the Birth of Mary which was yesterday. I’m sorry that I have not been able to send these thoughts out to you. I just hope that I will be able to get something out for you […]

Greetings, hope all is well.I am sure we all watch the news on TV, at some part of the day. I know I turn it on when I wake up in the morning not because I’m interested in what is happening, but just to get my head together and I turn off the TV and […]

Greetings. Yes it is Friday and another weekend. For some is a couple of days to relax. But I know after being a priest for some 48 years, weekends were just other work days. I guess I enjoyed it after 48 years. Oh well, happy Friday and a safe and blessed weekend.The 5th of Sept. […]

Good morning, (just hope you get this in the morning.)I happened to open up one of my older books where I keep my quotes and other little things to send out to you, Today I opened one that goes bace several years and came across the following. So this meditation on my part may be […]

Hello. Well it looks like I have a handle on this new computer. I should keep my mouth shot less something goes bust.I dare say that we all have had some hard days. Some of our making, though we like to think that it someone else’s doing. We are told over and over again in our […]

Greetings, hope all goes well. My last few meditations have been on Hope. I really don’t know why I am focusing in on this virtue but for some reason I have been praying and meditating about it for the last week or so.  “HOPE”, we use this word in so many ways that it sometimes […]

Hello. Hope your weekend has gone well. Well here we are at the end of another month. The Fall is just about here and we will once again enter a time when the Mother Earth will take her rest. Winter, in most parts of the world will be somewhat cold and bleak, but Mother Earth […]

Hello and happy Sunday. Yes these weeks are going by so quickly. Sept. is just around the corner. Time goes by so quickly when one is having fun. Oh, are we having fun yet?Our Gospel from Matthew begins with Jesus telling his disciples that in a short while He will be going up to Jerusalem to face His […]

Hello. Today we remember when the cousin of Jesus, John the Baptist gave his life to appease the revengeful heat of his wife and her daughter Solome. For the dance to please her stepfather, he promised anything she asked for. At the urgings of her mother, she asked for the head of John the Baptist on […]

Good morning.Little by little I am getting use to this new computer. Sometimes good, sometimes not so . . .Today we remember one of the great saints of the Church. St. Augustine. Born in 354 he died in 430. Augustine was by no means born a saint. His early days were one of a well to […]

Good day to you all.I am sure that at one time or another we all have prayed for peace. And sometimes like the psalms say, “Pearce, peace, and there is no peace.”Peace is something that does not come in a pretty wrapped package. Peace is one of those virtues that WE must work for. God […]

I am getting a LITTLE better on this new computer. NOT great, but a little better. I hope!!As we go through our Ordinary Time we should keep in mind that this time is to put into practice what we had celebrated at our last major feast, that being Christmas. It is unfortunate that we have […]

Hello, hope all goes well. I’m slowly learning how to use this new computer, as I have said to others, “baby steps before you can run.” In St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, he speaks about the Spirit of God groaning as he says, “ . . . the Spirit  himself makes intercessions for us […]

Good day to  you all. Today we remember one of the little known apostles, St. Bartholomew. He was also known as Nathaniel of Cana. We know of him because his name is in the list of the twelve. Tradition tells us that he met a very gruesome and painful death for the Lord. Being a […]

Hello. I know that some of you may be receiving more than one of these. Well like the song says, “Double your pleasure, double your fun. . .” It is slow, but we are learning. Today’s Gospel story relates to us the time that Jesus and the disciples are in the most northern part of […]

Greetings. Well I got my new computer. BUT now it is teaching an old dog new tricks. I will keep this short and offer a thought by St.  Maximilian. Hopefully tomorrow I will be a he to get back on track St. Maximilian offers this prayer about the Blessed Virgin Mray., “Prayer is powerful beyond limits when […]

Hellol I remember a number of years ago, I watched a movie called “Evan Almighty.” It was a story of a young father who finds out that his future is to be the “new Noah.” The story evolves around his coming to understand that he is to build an ark and save the animals and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hello. Yes, I am still having trouble with my computer, but fear not, another is on its way like a knight in shining armor!!  Anyway, happy Sunday.  Today our Gospel comes from Matthew 14:13-21. It is a story we, I am sure, are familiar with. It is the story about Jesus feeding the multitudes in […]

Greetings to you all. Today we remember Alphonsus Ligori who developed the foundation of moral theology in the Church. In his day he fought for the liberation of moral theology form the rigidity of Jansenism. Alphonsus went on to establish a religious community known as the Redemptorist who would continue his work in moral theology.  […]

Hello, happy Friday! Are we pack rats? Do we keep things that we will never use just in case we may need them. Those pants that don’t fit but we will keep them and when we go on that diet, we will be able to put them on again. And I have a bridge in […]

Good day to all. Today we remember three good friends of Jesus. We hare of their encounters several times in the Gospels. It is said that they lived in a village “a sabboth’s walk” wich would be about 2/3 of a mile, (1 kilometer). I remember walking to the sight of the village when I […]

Good morning!! I hope you get this in the morning. I wake up and the first thing I think about is getting this meditation off to you. Then I try to wake up a little more by turning on the news, well, that works but I then forget to send off the meditation. Getting old […]

 Good day to you all. I hope all is well. It’s morning, we open our eyes and our ears to the sound of the alarm clock, or we just wake up because we always wake up at the same time. We have a routine that we automatically follow. God forbid should that routine be altered […]

Today we remember the Apostle James, the brother of John.  James was one of the chosen three with Peter and John. When the Lord would go off he would ask these three to go with Him. He was present for the transfiguration, the raising to life of the daughter of Jairus and accompanied the Lord […]

Greetings, hope all goes well. Why do we attend church on Sunday? It is because we really get something out of it, or because that is what we do on a Sunday like going to work on Monday.? Do I feel different after attending a service, do I find it challenging in that I see […]

Hello.  There is a story of St. Francis of Assisi that tells about when out walking to a village, Francis came across an earthworm that was crawling across the walking path. Francis not wanting to step on it, pick it up and moved it off the path to a grassy area and let it go. […]

Good day to you all. Hope all goes well. If you were to pick a “saint” from the Bible, who would you choose? As you know I have long standing relationship with St. Anthony of Padua. But if I had to choose one from the New Testament I think I would choose St. Mary Magdalene.  […]

Hello. I hope your week went well and that you may have a restful time ahead of you. Have you ever had to deal with a person who was indifferent to whatever you may ask them. “Do you want to have this or that for dinner?” And the answer is “I don’t care.” So you […]

Hello all, hope your weekend went well. I remember when I first entered religious life, one of the hardest things to do was to keep quiet. When you walked, worked you tried to make as little noise as possible. And there was no speaking unless it had to do with what you were doing, or […]

Hello, I hope your week went well. A am still having trouble with my computer and had a tech over on Thursday. The computer I have may have seen better days and I may have to get another one. I will be so glade when I use it that I will not have to have […]

Good day to you all. I have had the blessed opportunity, as some of know, to have been able to study in the Holy Land. It is an opportunity that, when I asked my Abbot if I should go, he told me that I would never get such an opportunity again. He was so right  […]

Hello. How many times have we prayed the following from Ps. 23, “And I will dwell in the House of the Lord all the days of my life.”? Charles Spurgeon, “While I am here I will be a child at home with my God; the whole world shall be his house to me; and when I […]

Greetings. Today we remember Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Mt. Carmel is a hill overlooking the northern city of Haifa in Israel. It is here in the very early days of the Church men took refuge as a place where they could find solitude and quiet to live a life of prayer.  In time, more […]

Good day to you all. Today we remember one of the great theologians and saints of the Franciscan family. St. Bonaventure, though a well-educated person, was also a truly humble and friendly person. It is said in the Franciscan family that “To know him was to love him, to read him is still for us today […]

Hallo We all have had those days when nothing goes right, or we have to deal with the problems of others who come to our door.  I remember when I worked for the hospice I would go to an 8:00am meeting with the other team managers. It was only a 30-minute meeting. The next thing […]

Greetings, I hope you all had a good weekend. How many masks do we wear? How many different people reside within us? We present one person to our boss, our significant other, and our friends. But do we ever really present our true self? Nathaniel Hawthorn once told us, “No man for any considerable period can wear […]