Eight days after the birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph took him to be circumcised. So we hear the brief Gospel account of that read on the Octave Day of Christmas. But today the Church invites us to look beyond...

The life of Jesus with our Blessed Lady and St. Joseph at Nazareth is a mystery the Church wants us to ponder, enter into, learn from, wonder at. St. Luke draws a veil of silence over almost all the details of this life, but he and the other Evangelists actually tell us all we need to know about it. Once established...

According to the Second Preface of Apostles, God has granted that his “Church might be built upon apostolic foundations” - Quoniam Ecclesiam tuam in apostolicis tribuisti consistere fundamentis. Two New Testament texts in particular are referred to here. Towards the end of the Apocalypse, St. John has a vision of the Church...

Dignus est Agnus qui occisus est - Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and glory (Apoc 5:12).

So we sang in the Introit to today’s Mass. So we make our own the cry of the numberless Angels gathered around the Throne in Heaven, as seen and reported by St. John in the Apocalypse. And with this cry, this Chant, we bring our liturgical year to its close: celebrating our faith in Christ on a...

I think that many, if not most people here now were with us on Thursday for the re-Dedication of this Church. In that beautiful and lengthy ceremony, the Bishop...