I have often gone to the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at a parish where everyone washes everyone else’s feet… during the Gospel. The people remove their shoes and socks when they stand for the Gospel, the priest reads up to the point where Jesus says, “Do you know what I have done for you?” and thereupon starts singing the mandate. He Read more
Sometimes it is just best to let others’ words speak for themselves. Our new Pope’s reflection on the purpose of anointing is profound, and this line in particular struck me as a good summary of the moral life in particular: When we have this relationship with God and with his people, and grace passes through us, then we are [anointed] priests, mediators Read more
Our society presents several problems facing the parish. Consumerism or politics tends to be the dominant lens through which we interpret our lives, including our faith. These frameworks are difficult to change because relationships and communities are hard to sustain. It takes almost all of our effort just to survive and take care of the ones closest to us. In my previous Read more
Guest Blog By Hoon Choi, Assistant Professor of Theology & Religious Studies, St John’s University (NY) Bodily experiences are unique. They can be vehicles to an immediate knowledge of reality. The human body–and the sexual experience enjoyed in the body–can reveal to us “what is beyond our conscious rational apprehension,” according to Mircea Eliade. When I reflect on the experience of my body, Read more
Lectionary 42 Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Col 3:1-4 Jn 20:1-9 Lent is finally over and now in the Church we feast. And yet we should be changed by our Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. We should go on from Easter a little more prayerful, a little more temperate, and a little more charitable. For Christians, the death Read more
Pope Francis has made quite the impression in his first week of Petrine ministry. He has already become endeared to many with his gestures of humility, including his bowing and asking the crowd’s blessing on election night, his paying his own hotel bill, his declining papal regalia such as a gold pectoral cross, and his spontaneous acts of greeting the crowds and Read more
It is an exciting time for the Church. The papal transition and its significance for the Church has been covered in many venues by our bloggers, and we have collected some of our contributions here. Ramon Luzarraga CBS.com interview (text only) Comments in the Guardian (UK) newspaper Comments inThe Dayton Daily News article Comments in USA Today article WDEL (Delaware) radio interview Read more
Concern for the environment is often portrayed as a “luxury” issue, a bourgeois issue, compared to concern for the poor. Economists often suggest that care for the environment and “reducing pollution” is a luxury that becomes more attractive with wealth and development. So it is noteworthy that Pope Francis, who is of and for the poor, made the protection of creation central to his Read more
I write this as someone who is not committed to either major American political party, but–boy oh boy–didn’t CPAC reveal that my Republican friends have their work cut out for them? As I wrote in today’s “On Faith” section of the Washington Post: The Republican party is a fracturing coalition in disarray. This past week’s CPAC meetings have revealed that, though they Read more
Rape Culture. It’s a term that I used in my recent blog, in which I express my anger over the pervasive focus in the media on the effect the guilty verdict affects the “promising futures” of the perpetrators and not what all of this does to the promising future of the sixteen year old rape victim in the Steubenville rape case. What Read more
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
