Fr. Bob’s Thoughts for the Third Sunday of Advent
Third Sunday of Advent 'Signs for All to See?' (Matthew 11:2-11)
Fr. Bob’s Thoughts for the Second Week of Advent
There’s a lot of secular sentimentality at Christmas, which makes it difficult for the Christ to make an impact.
Second Week of Advent – In Home Retreat
In this second week of Advent, we take time to reflect on what it means to experience God’s gift of peace, and how we can be peacemakers in the world.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Second Sunday of Advent
This is a stern gospel about a stern John the Baptist. If you were making up a list for a Christmas Party, you would leave his name off.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – First Sunday of Advent
Today is the first Sunday of Advent and no one really celebrates it anymore. The season has been swallowed up by commercial Christmas. Yes, we come to church and note the purple vestments and sing the Advent Hymns.
Fr. Bob’s Thoughts for the First Week of Advent
As we enter the season of Advent, the prophet Isaiah says to God, “Would that You might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of You in our ways.”
First Week of Advent – In Home Retreat
As we prepare for Christmas in our homes, let us also prepare for Christmas in our hearts, minds and souls.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Thirty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Christ the King Solemnity
Charlie Brown is leaning against a tree talking to Lucy. She asks, “What do you think security is, Charlie Brown?”
Father Custos Speaks at Conference on the Sultan and the Saint
Greg Friedman, OFM On Thursday, November 7, Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, addressed a conference at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., entitled “The Sultan
Obituary Notice for Br. Paschal Steen, TSA
Father Peter J. Taran (nee Tarantino), SA, a Franciscan Friar of the Atonement, passed from this life on Sunday, June 30, 2019 at Cabrini of Westchester Nursing Home in Dobbs Ferry, NY.