Good Friday: The Return

Drizzly, rainy day today.  Feels like Good Friday.  Uptown, the NY Tri-State youth team has already set out on their cross walk from Columbus Circle. I know from past years they will be touching hundreds if not thousands of souls with their witness as they collect prayers for their crosses on the long walk to

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Spy Wednesday: Brothers in the Byways

If the last two nights were the story of a handful of missionaries panning for souls in a fast moving, at times overwhelming, secular river of souls, tonight was almost the polar opposite.  Tonight, the entire Cheshire seminary arrived, in force.  We sent them out in teams of four into the streets, throughout the parish

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Heaven can begin here on Earth

Happiness and joy can be a very subjective experience. I recall one of my brother priests sharing what a big impression visiting a dump in a poor town in Nicaragua had left on him. There was a six year old girl who, with a big smile and a sense of pride, was showing the visitors

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Novena for the Solemnity of Pentecost- Day 10

 Opening Prayer Come, Holy Spirit, and fill the hearts of your faithful! Come, Holy Spirit and “Refresh my heart in Christ” (Philem20). Like the apostles, I am awaiting your coming by devoting myself to prayer (cfr.Acts1:14). May these days dispose my heart to receive you, as the apostles received you in the Upper Room and

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