Focus on Faith

Worship is a pastor’s highest responsibility, and the experience of worship must always be prayerful, not distracting or distressing.

c. 675 – 754 Feast Date: June 5 Boniface, the apostle of Germany, started out as an English monk, a popular teacher, preacher and writer who […]

What are our retirement years meant for, spiritually?

Pentecost Sunday
First reading: Acts 2:1-11
Second reading: 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13
Gospel: John 20:19-23

A tribunal of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services has wrapped up its nearly four-year inquiry into whether the life of Father Vincent R. Capodanno, a Vietnam War hero and U.S. Navy chaplain, merits consideration for sainthood.

Sister Tracey Horan’s willingness to listen to people as they discover the power they hold to achieve social justice earned her the 2017 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops’ domestic anti-poverty and social justice program.

The Ascension of the Lord — First reading: Acts 1:1-11; Second reading: Ephesians 1:17-23;
Gospel: Matthew 28:16-20

Attending my first Mass at the age of 19 was a peculiar experience. The bells and smells were all new to me, as were the collective prayers. But most striking were two other facets of the Mass: the centrality of the sacraments and the reverence in which the Mass was celebrated.