The Lesson of the Cross

https://afireblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/fsr-16-sept-2018-st-vito.mp3 Peter resists the cross. Mary embraces it. Resist or embrace: that’s our choice too. Fr. Steven Reilly’s homily at St. Vito-Most Holy Trinity Parish, Mamaroneck, New York Photo by Paul Keiffer on Unsplash

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Mortification: Spiritual Masochism?

As a 20 year old seminarian I began studying the lives of the saints and one thing that soon stood out was the extreme measures some of them took to discipline “the flesh”.  And so we read the heroic feats of martyrs, the extreme measures of St. Francis of Assisi who would jump into cold

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Cross of Love

Advent Mission 2016 Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral, SoHo.    Cold, blustery night in SoHo.  Market making new highs.  Pedestrians in a hurry to escape the cold, finish their Christmas shopping, or to get to dinner.  And everywhere they walked in the neighborhood, they found missionaries.  We had nearly 40 young Legionary seminarians surrounding the parish perimeter,

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