MASS READINGS: "When will I come to the end of my pilgrimage and enter the Presence of the Lord?" In today's morning prayer, a verse...

POPE'S PRAYER INTENTIONS For our relationship with all of creation Let us pray that, inspired by Pope Francis, we might experience our...

God's Word Speaks for Itself: LORD, you have probed me, you know me: you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar....

"Every vocation to the priesthood comes from the heart of God, but it passes through the heart of a mother." ~ St. Pope Pius X

MASS READINGS Reading 1 Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 My child, conduct your affairs with humility,  and you will be loved more than a giver...

Today is tomorrow’s past; Think it well, then, how to live it fully; tend to its cares if you must; forget not to love tenderly those...

"I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes...

MASS READINGS Responsorial Psalm Psalm 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab R. (1) You have searched me and you know me, Lord. From your presence where...

MASS READINGS: Gospel Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus told his disciples this parable: "A man going on a journey called in his servants and...

"Without priests the Church would not be able to live that fundamental obedience which is at the very heart of her existence and her...

MASS READINGS: Gospel Mark 6:17-29 Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the...

"I appeal especially to families. May parents, mothers in particular, be generous in giving their sons to the Lord when he calls them to...

MASS READINGS: Gospel Matthew 24:42-51 Jesus said to his disciples: "Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be...

"It is necessary to pray for priests because they are so often forgotten by the living, since Christians often consider that priests do...

MASS READINGS: Reading 1 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 You recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery. Working night and day in order...

"When people wish to destroy religion, they begin by attacking the priest, because where there is no longer any priest there is no...

READINGS Gospel Matthew 23:23-26 Jesus said: ...

"And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today; ...the LORD...