My dear St. Philip parishioners, The Sacrament of Confirmation comprises a two year journey of prayer, discernment, learning, and service which begins...

My dear parishioners, grace and peace be yours in the Lord’s name! On January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court abolished the abortion laws of all fifty states. The members of the Court, in an unprecedented and disturbing act...

My dear St. Philip parishioners, The Sacrament of Confirmation comprises a two year journey of prayer, discernment, learning, and service which begins...

My dear parishioners, sacred Tradition tells us that Joseph was an older man. Matthew's gospel recounts marvelous instances in which God directs...

My dear parishioners, we speak of celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Mass is rightly called the “sacrament of love”. We say that we love ...

My dear parishioners, the door to a house opens inward. The door to the human heart, it seems to me, must open outward. The phrase “reaching out”...

My dear parishioners, the great adventure of salvation history starts with the first Sunday of Advent and offers an entire year of breathtaking experiences.

My dear parishioners, as Christ offers to us his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity—the pledge of his eternal love—we are given an example to love ...

My dear parishioners, the sun ascends the morning sky. It rejoices in splendor at the summit of day. Evening appears, night encroaches,...

Dear Parish families, I would like to share a poem that means a lot to me, written by my dad for the funeral of my grandma Rockey.  I have fond ...

MY DEAR parishioners, speaking of prayer. When I was seven, I prayed to God for a pair of invisible wings. Big feathered ones. I promised God...

MY DEAR parishioners, I know a person who thinks faith and choosing are the same thing. He thinks his “power” to choose is supreme and that his

My dear parishioners, more and more people comment that America has become a nation of children in grown-up bodies. We watch children grow...

My dear parishioners, fidelity and devotion to the third commandment -- “remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy”  [Exo 20:8] -- is a testimony...

One has only to recall the astonishment of Mary and Joseph who glimpsed for themselves the divinity of God in the wisdom of the child Jesus: “...all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers . .

My dear parishioners, many storms arise in the the deep valley between what a person professes and how that person lives. Many well-intentioned...

Six times the prayer of the Roman Canon (EP I) and Communion Rite of Mass invokes God’s “peace” upon his Church, the Body of Christ. Interestingly,

My dear parishioners, If you have traveled through states north and east of Texas, driving on farm-to-market roads, your memories of spectacular ...

My dear parishioners, a desperate man stands at the threshold of his neighbor's door, his cries shattering the solemn stillness of the sleeping

[Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Italy (Padre Pio) was a Franciscan priest and mystic who bore the stigmata. He died September 23, 1968. Pope Saint John Paul II