If you lived in the city of London, you would be familiar with a certain way of speaking, and it is distinctive to that city, and those who are Londoners, also known as ‘Cockneys’. Cockneys have…

None of us can fail to have marveled at the beauty of the Magnolia trees at Sacred Heart this year. Warmed by the gentle sunshine, they burst into life on the Holy Night, and during this Octave…

The point is that the Lord has a message for us today on this day of Resurrection: “Go to Galilee!” What a curious thing to say. The first news of the Resurrection, “He is risen. He is not here….

The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnand is not the typical Resurrection scene.  Rather than focusing on the usual subjects,…

Priests should not tell tales: so I will refrain from repeating the story I told to the little ones of Darien one year about how the Easter Bunny in fact lays her eggs. They bought it hook, line…

“Hear now, is it my way that is unfair or rather your way is not unfair?” We can see an illustration of those ways when we consider the story of the healing at the pool of Bethesda: because what…

Thanks to the graciousness of his Lordship, the Bishop, we will be able to celebrate the Sacred Triduum here in Georgetown, which is a remarkable…

The Ognissanti Crucifix, c. 1315, hangs in the chiesa di Ognissanti, or the Church of All Saints, in Florence, Italy.  A seven year project,…

Just as on the Via Dolorosa the Lord will carry his Cross, so, too, we commit to carry our crosses as well, symbolically by the palms that we have taken in our…