Category Archives: From Our Pastors

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles…

This coming Sunday, July 11th, is the feast for St. Benedict of Nursia, “Abbot and Founder of the Benedictine Order.” The work and impact of St. Benedict on the Western…

They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them,…

Imagine a Carmelite monastery in 17th-century Paris, France. Monks set about their daily task of ora et labora—prayer and work. Deep in a kitchen, hands buried in a basin of soapy…

The Scriptures are full of stories of storms at sea. Paul was shipwrecked. Jonah was thrown overboard because of a storm at sea. The lessons for this Sunday speak of…