Today is the feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist. We celebrate only three earthly birthdays in the course of the liturgical year, ea...

This past weekend I had the joy of assisting at the diocesan Catholic Engaged Encounter retreat for couples preparing for the sacrament of m...

This Friday we celebrate the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. With this in mind we offer this week's HWP, which was employed da...

This Friday we celebrate the feast of St. Boniface, the great apostle of the German people. Filled with holy boldness, he went into the lan...

Today in the Ordinary Form (and tomorrow in the Extraordinary Form) we celebrate the feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury, often referred t...

Yesterday in the Extraordinary Form calendar Mother Church honored Pope St. Peter Celestine. St. Peter Celestine was a man of humble beginn...

In the Extraordinary Form yesterday (and Ordinary Form last Thursday) we celebrated the feast of Pope St. Pius V. He is arguably one of the...

Yesterday was the feast of St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort, whose book "True Devotion to Mary" is one of the classics on Mari...

Monday was the feast of Pope St. Martin I, who reigned as Supreme Pontiff in the 7th Century. The imperial powers of the day began to enfor...

Today we find ourselves midway into the Easter Octave, that 8-day festival honoring the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. I was intrigue...

Today we celebrate the feast of the Annunciation, when the Archangel Gabriel announced to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would bear the S...

Tomorrow we celebrate the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church. This man of faith and foster-father of the our Lord cont...

Yesterday was the feast of the 40 Holy Martyrs, sometimes knows as the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste. These martyrs numbered 40 Roman soldiers who ...

Today is the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Lourdes. Her appearances to St. Bernadette led to what has bec...

Yesterday was the feast of St. Ansgar ( more on him here ) who is generally passed over on account of his sharing a feast with the more not...

Today is the feast of St. Peter Nolasco, who, alongside St. Raymond of Penyafort, founded the Mercedarians. This community was formed with ...

This week I am in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life at our nation's capital. Today being the feast of St. Agnes, I wanted ...

As my brother priests and I take a bit of time away from our parishes for continued formation and education, it highlights that fact that w...

This past Sunday (or yesterday in the Extraordinary Form calendar) we celebrated the Solemnity of Epiphany, marking the arrival of the Magi...

Advent and Christmas preparations got the best of me with posting things here in a timely manner or any manner at all. So today we begin ag...