Good Wednesday Morning to all Priests! Good Wednesday Morning all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. Michael Brehl, C.Ss .R. celebrating his Birthday today! Let us pray for Chaplain Father Michael J.T. Nguyen performing his duties in the Army this week! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning prayers on our Website! Merry Christmas and Happy Epiphany!

MASS READINGS Gospel Mark 6:45-52 After the five thousand had eaten and were satisfied, Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. And when he had taken leave of them, he went off to the mountain to pray. When it was evening, the boat was far out on the sea and he was alone on shore. Then he saw that they were tossed about while rowing, for the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of th

"The door to heaven is the heart of Jesus. The key to this door is prayer and love." ~ Saint Andrew Bessette

READINGS Reading 1 John 4:7-10 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us an

Good Tuesday Morning to all Priests! Good Tuesday Morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. Joseph Chau Xuan Bau, C.Ss .R. celebrating his 64th Ordination Anniversary! Let us pray for Chaplain Father Michael J. T. Nguyen as he fullfils his military duties this week. Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning Prayers on our Website! Merry Christmas!

"Only a poor priest, one who can endure hardship can labor here. His duties call him far and near... he leads a wandering life. There is no pleasure, except the care of souls." ~ St. John Neumann

Good Morning to all Priests! Good Morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Msgr. Peter Quang Nguyen and Fr. Ovidio Eduardo Duarte Torres both celebrating their Birthdays today! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning Prayers on our Website! Merry Christmas!

Gospel Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death lig

"Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament ... I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!" ~ St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

MASS READINGS Gospel Matthew 2:1-12 When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,  “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.” When King Herod heard this, he was greatly troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, He inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They said to hi

Good Sunday Morning and Blessed Epiphany of the Lord to all Priests! Happy Epiphany of the Lord to all our PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. Orin Nicholas Halepeska celebrating his Birthday today! Let us pray for Fr. Francis Dang Hoa, C.Ss .R. celebrating his Ordination Anniversary! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning Prayers on our Website! Have a Blessed Epiphany of the Lord!

"One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office." ~ Dietrich von Hildebrand #Saints #Quotes

Good First Saturday Morning to all Priests! Good First Saturday Morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. John Payne, S.J. and Fr. Chris Smith celebrating their Birthdays, today! Let us pray for Fr. Matthew Krulesky celebrating his Ordination Anniversary today! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning Prayers on our Website! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

OUR LADY OF FATIMA MASS READINGS: Reading 1 1 John 2:29–3:6 If you consider that God is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him. See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,

"In doing our work we can expect to find insults, crosses and failures. That is the way in which we are tried, and through these crosses we will gain many blessings from God." ~ Servant of God Fr. Emil Kapaun #Saints #Quotes

Good First Friday Morning to all Priests! Good First Friday Morning to all our PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for   Fr. Linh Nguyen celebrating his Birthday, today! Let 's pray for Fr. Thomas Ha, C.Ss .R. and Fr. John Vu, C.Ss .R. celebrating their Ordination Anniversaries, today! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning Prayers on our Website! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MASS READINGS: Gospel John 1:19-28 This is the testimony of John. When the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to him to ask him, “Who are you?” he admitted and did not deny it, but admitted, “I am not the Christ.” So they asked him, “What are you then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you, so we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you have to say for yourself?” He said: “I

""Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain"; whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that.""  (James 4: 13-14) REFLECTION Saint James enjoyed considerable authority in Jerusalem and outside of Palestine. Here he gives us gol

Happy New Year 2026 to all Priests! Good Thursday morning and Happy New Year 2026, PAPA Missionaries and families! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are the PAPA Morning prayers on our Website! May Jesus bless you this New Year 2026!

SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD MASS READINGS: Gospel Luke 2:16-21 The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph,  and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this,  they made known the message  that had been told them about this child. All who heard it were amazed  by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things,  reflecting on them in her heart . Then the shepherds returned,  glorifying and praising God  for a