by Fr. Francis | Apr 4, 2021 | Sunday Homilies
Easter Sunday (Fr. Francis) New life, with Jesus Easter Sunday is what we have all been waiting for! The forty days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving during Lent was in preparation for this day, when our hearts and souls can drink in deeply the culmination of the...
by Fr. Francis | Apr 4, 2021 | Sunday Homilies
Easter Vigil (Fr. Francis) In this holy night we celebrate the Lord’s resurrection. We rejoice in the victory of Jesus Christ over sin and death. We pledge to live our own lives as children of the light of the Risen Lord. We have listened in the readings to the...
by Fr. Francis | Apr 2, 2021 | Sunday Homilies
Good Friday (Fr. Francis) Calvary sets in consoling relief the experience of all who suffer, whether the nightmare of physical pain or the emotional trauma of significant loss or the prospect of imminent death. The human Jesus, struggling to come to terms with the...
by Fr. Francis | Apr 1, 2021 | Sunday Homilies
Holy Thursday (Fr. Francis) If you are observant, you noticed when you came into church tonight that the tabernacle is empty. Why? For two reasons, really: First, to ensure that everyone receiving Holy Communion this evening does so from altar breads consecrated at...
by Fr. Francis | Mar 27, 2021 | Sunday Homilies
Palm Sunday (Fr. Francis) An interesting as well as challenging old fable tells of the colt that carried Jesus on Palm Sunday. The colt thought that the reception was organized to honor him. “I am a unique donkey!” this excited animal might have thought. When he...
