“When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they are destroyed at…

     “Do not ask for love from your neighbor, for if you ask and he does not respond you will be troubled.  Instead show your love for your neighbor and you will be at rest, and so will bring…

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: Christ is Risen!  Every year as we read this Gospel, the Prologue of St. John, the first chapter, verses 1-17, I’m always struck by the…

Fr. Patrick’s eulogy for his mother, + Lenna Katherine Kinder (Baba Jo),   8-24-1928 — 3-3-2014      “God bless you, God watch over you, God protect you from any harm, and God love you.  And I know He does –…

   “The Holy Church of God is an image of God because it realizes the same union of the faithful with God.  As different as they [we] are by language, place, and custom, they [we] are made one by it…