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Answers to all of your pertinent questions regarding the Live-Streamed Masses! 1. We’re figuring this out as we go. We’ve made much progress in a short amount of time, but please realize we’re just amateurs at this live-streaming process, as are…

The first reading for this Second Sunday of Easter from St. Paul, is very appropriate for us during this time of pandemic. “They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers…

The timelessness of the Easter Sequence lives on despite world-changing diseases that have occurred throughout the centuries. Coronavirus isn’t the first and probably won’t be the last. Easter may not seem like quite the celebration this year, but…

Easter is new life! Easter is the story of Jesus rising from the dead as a sign of hope and promise for all who live in Christ. Easter this year will be with no Eucharist for most in our parish and world, but that does NOT mean it will be without…

I remember a time in my first three years of priesthood, when I was in campus ministry at the University of Kansas. At the age of 26, I was pretty much a peer with some of the students. We related very well and could be pretty honest and blunt with…

I don’t even know how to begin this article.  During this turbulent and unknown time, it is hitting every aspect of life in some way.  While I feel incredibly honored to be able to assist in bringing the Mass to all of you through Live streaming on…

We are now here at the last Sunday of Lent. Next week begins Holy Week, with the celebration of Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil, and Easter Sunday. I would highly recommend that you make plans NOW…

Part of our Christian faith is the belief that our unity and community with each other in Christ is so real, so deep, so physical, and so mutually interdependent that we constitute not a cluster of different parts, but something organic and living.…

This 4th Sunday of Lent is known as Laetare Sunday. The entrance antiphon for this Sunday in Latin is “Laetare Jerusalem” or “Rejoice, Jerusalem”. We are halfway through Lent now, and the Church gives us this Sunday to add in a little ‘rejoicing’.…

Not knowing what is happening day by day, I am not sure what to write about, but in my 53 years of life and 27 years as a priest, this is unprecedented. It is weird and new for us all as Sunday Mass is cancelled, or you are choosing to not attend…