Perhaps the most abused word in the English language is the word love. We claim that we love God, you love your spouse, you love your children, but we also claim to love our dog, we love chocolate and wouldn’t most of us say we love how beautiful the church… Continue reading 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C
Easter Sunday 2016
This morning we gather at the empty tomb to celebrate a historic truth; the truth that Christ “was dead and is alive again.”[1] This feast of Easter is revolutionary. Their have been many great thinkers, many founders of religions and many holy people in the course of human history, but… Continue reading Easter Sunday 2016
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
Today, as we gather at the hour when our Savior gave up His spirit, we recall that “the cross of Christ is not a theory, but a dreadful ordeal and a sign of love.”[1] We come to pay the highest honor to our Lord’s cross recognizing it as the means of our salvation… Continue reading Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
Introduction To The Liturgies Of The Sacred Triduum
Introduction to the Triduum An Introduction To The Liturgies Of Sacred Triduum Rev. Peter Fonseca This is the text for an Adult Faith Workshop on the Mass. It is intended to be an incomplete, yet simple introduction to what happens at the liturgies of the Triduum. The Easter Triduum is the culmination of the Liturgical Year.[1]… Continue reading Introduction To The Liturgies Of The Sacred Triduum
Palm Sunday 2016
St. Luke organizes his entire Gospel around Jesus pilgrimage to Jerusalem, reminding his reader that the whole goal of Jesus’ life on earth was to go to Jerusalem to suffer, die and rise from the dead so that you and I could be lead from the slavery of sin into… Continue reading Palm Sunday 2016
5th Sunday of Lent Year C
I think most of us would agree that one of the worst things we can experience in our lives is public embarrassment. There is something about having our faults drug into the light for everyone to see which seems to tear us up inside and yet that is precisely what… Continue reading 5th Sunday of Lent Year C
A Quick Journey Through The Mass
A Quick Journey Through The Mass This is the text for an Adult Faith Workshop on the Mass. It is intended to be an incomplete, yet simple introductory what happens for at the Mass for those who only have an experiential knowledge of the Mass. The first Christians gathered to celebrate the Eucharist on the Sabbath[1] carrying… Continue reading A Quick Journey Through The Mass
3rd Sunday of Lent Year C
This past weekend some of the men from our parish were away on an ACTS retreat. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go out for the morning to speak with them and answer some questions. As I listened to their questions it was clear that many of them had come to… Continue reading 3rd Sunday of Lent Year C
2nd Sunday of Lent Year C
In the summer of 2013, Archbishop Carlson sent myself and two of my classmates to the picturesque city of Villa de Leyva in the beautiful country of Colombia. The city located at the high elevation of 7,000 feet, is surrounded by mountains which peaked out another 5,000 feet above us… Continue reading 2nd Sunday of Lent Year C
A Concise History of the Mass
This is the text for an Adult Faith Workshop on the History of the Mass at a Catholic Parish. It is intended to be an incomplete, yet simple introductory History of the Mass for those with very little knowledge of Church History or the Mass. Introduction The Mass, like all the sacraments, was instituted by Christ,… Continue reading A Concise History of the Mass
Through The Cross To Light 