Signs of Resurrection
My dear friends, With all my heart, I wish you and your families a blessed Easter day, filled with joyful “Alleluias,” as we celebrate, once again, the Gift of salvation through our Lord, Jesus Christ. It’s wonderful how our celebration of the Resurrection in the Easter Season coincides with the [...]
Guilt For Past Sins
My dear friends, When we visited the topic of guilt a few weeks ago, I was not able to address a question that often comes up, which runs something like this: “Father, when I remember my past sins, sometimes I feel guilty again, even though I’ve already confessed them. This [...]
I Believe in Love
My dear friends, A very important part of this Jubilee Year is allowing God to form our minds and hearts with the right understanding of His mercy, so that we will approach His mercy with greater confidence and trust. This is precisely what Jesus is doing through the parables of [...]
Acting on Mercy
My dear friends, The Bible reveals that God is a God of mercy, that mercy is part of God’s very nature. This being true, it is not surprising that the Lord calls us to be merciful, we who are made in God’s own image. During this special Jubilee year, we [...]
Reflections from Fr. Steven on the Epiphany
My dear friends, This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of Epiphany, which is a Greek word that means “manifestation.” God has manifested Himself in Christ, and manifested Himself in such a way that inspires great amazement and wonder. The Creator of the whole universe has assumed a created human nature. [...]
Do Not Be Afraid
My dear friends, With all my heart I wish to you and your families a most blessed Christmas, filled with the joy and peace of Christ. This will be our second Christmas together—praise God! I pray God will give us many more. The first pulpit of our Lord was the [...]
The Comings of Christ
My dear Friends, In a beautiful Advent homily St. Bernard, a 12th century Cistercian monk, speaks of three comings of Christ. Normally in Advent we speak of two: Christ’s first coming by his birth through Mary, and the second final coming at the end of time. But St. Bernard mentions [...]
Advent: The Silent, Hidden Presence that brings Hope
My dear friends, This Sunday we begin another season of Advent together. Advent, like all liturgical seasons, comes with its own special grace, or graces. And the grace that marks this season more than any other is the grace of hope, a joyful hope that springs from the birth of [...]
Imaging the Generosity of God
My dear friends, In the Gospel we have an example, among many found in Sacred Scripture, which shows that God does not judge by outward appearances, but by what is in the heart. And the question the Gospel invites us to ask is, “Lord, what do you see in the [...]
Our Holy Communion with the Saints
My dear friends, What makes the celebration of the Feast of All Saints such a joyful feast and relevant to our simple, ordinary lives, is that the Christian women and men that we honor for their holiness and fidelity to Christ, are not just holy figures of a distant past. [...]
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