Parish Catechetical Awareness Week Homily, September 20, 2009
There is an ancient story about a king who “had everything,” as the saying goes: more gold than he could count, an enormous palace, a multitude of servants, and all the rest. Although he possessed all of the creature comforts imaginable in his time the king felt the need for something more fulfilling in his life. As a result, he developed a passionate desire to find God ……
He read books …

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time(B)
Isaiah 50:5-9; Psalms 116:1-6,8-9; James 2:14-18; Mark 8:27-35
The legendary Hollywood motion picture executive, Samuel Goldwyn, was one of those people who “saves” everything. Through the years, he refused to allow his staff to throw anything away. His secretary began to get the feeling that she was drowning in the stacks of old telephone messages, letters and inter-office memos that were piled everywhere in the office. Consequently, in desperation, she pleaded with Goldwyn: “Please,” she said, “Won’t you allow me at least to throw away the memos …

Catechetical Awareness Month for September,
Sunday Sermon, September 6, 2009
The teacher gathered her Sunday school group around her and exclaimed, “Well, class, all those who want to go to heaven raise your hands.”
Everyone around the circle raised their hands, except one boy.
Don’t you want to go to heaven, Henry?” asked the teacher.
“I can’t, ma’am,” Henry replied, “My mom wants me to come straight home.”
Today’s Gospel describes a brief episode in which Jesus was asked to lay His hands on “a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech … He …

THE FIFTEEN PROMISES OF MARY TO CHRISTIANS WHO RECITE THE ROSARY
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, decreate sin, and defeat heresies.
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men
from the love of …

“The worship given to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit… must fill our churches also outside the timetable of the Masses… This worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament… Adoration of Christ in this sacrament of love must also find expression in varous forms of Eucharistic devotion: personal prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, hours of adoration, periods of exposition - short, prolonged, and annual (Forty Hours) - Eucharistic benediction, Eucharistic procession, Eucharistic Congresses… Let us be generous …