What are you praying for this Lent?

Success isn't the prophet's reward. Obedience is.

Through the Word, with him and in him, we become powerful heralds and agents of God's healing justice and copious mercy.

The criteria for admission into eternal life may surprise us.

A love that is forced is not love at all.

The Devil tempts the holy and causes them to fall. BUT...Jesus doesn't fall into temptation. Why is that?

Jesus always notices us!

We, as the church (the body of Christ), are the instruments God has chosen to bring salvation to others.

God respects the freedom he endowed us with, even to the point of respecting our choice for death and doom.

If the ashes on your forehead today cause you to sin by pride, wash your face.

The Lord Jesus gives us spiritual food and supernatural strength (faith, hope, and love) to seek his face and to prepare ourselves for spiritual combat and testing.

We sin to the degree that we consent to the sinful action. Jesus is trying to teach us prevention.

Love, in the Catholic tradition, is a decision – it is the decision to will/to desire the good of the other person. Love is not egocentric; it’s other-centered.

Blessed are they who mourn; not only at the death of loved ones, but also at the injustices of those who are most vulnerable.

He is making all things new, and the newness of life does not include divisions among ourselves.

With a sad, yet hopeful heart, we announce that Fr. Victor Laroche, OP, passed away on Friday, January 23, 2026.

Mary proved to be the fundamental example of faithfulness to God in her choice to cooperate with the words of an angel in becoming the Mother of Jesus.

This is the end of another year of God's grace...

I squirm and twitch.

The Mass celebrates not only the birth of Christ but, being the Eucharist, his death as well.