Dear Friends in Christ, Christ is risen. He is truly risen. Today we celebrate not a symbol, not a memory, but a reality: Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. The tomb is empty. Death has been conquered. Sin has been defeated. And because of this, everything has changed. This is not just...
Lent is drawing to a close. We have entered the desert. We have faced the reality of sin. We have looked upon the Cross. Now the Church places before us a final, urgent question: Where do we actually encounter the mercy of Christ? Not in theory. Not in vague hope. But concretely &mdash...
We have entered the desert. We have spoken honestly about sin and mercy. Now Lent brings us to the heart of everything: The Cross. St. Paul writes, “We preach Christ crucified” (cf. Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 1:23). Not Christ as an idea. Not Christ as inspiration...
Last Sunday we entered the desert with Christ. We spoke about conversion — about turning back to the Lord with intention. But conversion requires honesty. And honesty requires that we speak clearly about sin. In every age there is a temptation to soften sin, to rename...
Each year, on the First Sunday of Lent, the Church brings us into the desert. In the Gospel, we see Jesus led by the Spirit into the wilderness for forty days of fasting and temptation (cf. Holy Bible, Matthew 4:1–11). Before He begins His public ministry, before the miracles...
On February 11, the Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a young girl, St. Bernadette Soubirous, in Lourdes, France, in 1858. What took place in that quiet town has since become one of the Church’s most enduring...
Guardian Angels Parish has received an Apostolic Blessing from Pope Leo, bestowed upon Fr. Joe Connelly and our parish. An Apostolic Blessing is a special prayer and blessing given by the Holy Father, invoking God’s grace upon a person or community and uniting us in a particular way to the...
Forty days after Christmas, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, a mystery that draws together Christmas and Lent, joy and sacrifice, promise and prophecy. Though the infant Christ is still carried in His Mother’s arms, the shadow of the Cross already stretches...
On January 31, the Church celebrates the Memorial of Saint John Bosco, a priest whose life was poured out in love for young people, especially the poor and abandoned. Known simply as “Don Bosco,” he saw in every child not a problem to be solved, but a soul to be loved and led to...
January 22 Each year on January 22, the Church in the United States observes the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. This date marks the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. For Catholics, this is not a day of anger or...
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