Matt 13: 24-43 In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus speaks again about seeds. Today’s parable is different, though. He tells us that even when the farmer sows good seed in good ground, it’s still possible that treacherous weeds may be found in the soil and
Matthew 13: 1-23 How appropriate that today’s readings for Mass are about seeds and harvest. The majority of us probably buy our food from the supermarket. But how can we not bear in mind, these muggy, steamy days of July, our sisters and brothers laboring
Matthew 11:25-30 Have you thought much about how you came to be a believer in the Word of God–that is in Jesus the Word of God and in the Scriptures as His written word? Whether you grew up in a Catholic family or became a
MT 10:37-42 In today’s Gospel, Jesus makes no bones about it: to follow Him is to live your life in a way that is a sign of contradiction to the world. Love God more than you love your family. If you don’t take up your
A phone chimes, a car horn honks, countless one-sided conversations being “shared” by anyone close enough to hear. Radio advertisements, TV commercials, billboards, window advertisements each telling you what you need. Newspapers, magazines, social media, evening news broadcasts layering their own version of truth with
March 23, 1933 – June 18, 2023 Sister Marie Joseph Gardes, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady, Mother of the Church, Baltic, was called Home to God on Sunday afternoon, June 18, 2023. Sister was born at Avignon,
No matter what your relationship with your father might have been (or perhaps you never knew your father), this day will bring certain emotions to your heart. You may feel you had/have a father who was definitely a gift from God to you. You may
My Dear Good People, This weekend we celebrate the beautiful Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also called Corpus Christi. In the olden days in this village where I now live, and in countless others throughout our nation, on this day
Reflection for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, 2023 There are few mysteries in our faith that are as difficult to comprehend as the Mystery of the Holy Trinity. We have nothing in our experience with which to compare it, no frame of reference to
Today is the Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of the Holy Spirit of God who comes to us silently and brings us the desire to think of God, to immerse ourselves in Him and to love Him in the moment. Cardinal Robert Sarah
Whether your parish celebrated the Feast of the Ascension this past Thursday or is celebrating it today, you and I find ourselves looking forward with hope to the Feast of Pentecost, celebrated next Sunday, May 29. Pentecost is the day the Holy Spirit of Jesus
Happy Mother’s Day to all who are mothers– to your biological children, And those you Love with a Mother’s heart. My Dear Good People, Throughout this past week in the First Readings at daily Mass we have been listening to the
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As Sisters of Charity of Our Lady, Mother of the Church we embrace our two-fold mission of sanctity and service. In a spirit of simplicity we aspire to live a life rooted in the Gospel, in imitation of Mary and expressed by prayer, charity, self sacrifice and loving obedience. We devote ourselves to the works of charity, and as true daughters in the heart of the Church, we serve others through the apostolates of education, caring for the sick, the aging and the poor, wherever there is a need.
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