NYC Holy Week Missions, Day 1: It Begins

March 27, 2018  |   | NYC Missions

SIGN UP TO BE A NYC HOLY WEEK MISSIONARY   |   MORE INFO 2018 Holy Week Mission Blog, Day 1 “It Begins” St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, SoHo, 2018.   One of the topics we’ve discussed with the missionaries  in our missionary boot camp program has been the role of you know who—the Prince of Darkness.  The Devil

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St Patrick, the Grain that Falls

March 19, 2018  |   | AFIRE

In the gospel reading, our Lord speaks about the grain of wheat that falls to the ground and, dying, bears much fruit. This was the template for the apostle of Ireland, St Patrick. Fr Steven Reilly’s homily at St Patrick’s Parish, Yorktown Heights, New York.

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Mortification: Spiritual Masochism?

September 18, 2017  |   | Formation

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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We are Pilgrims

April 10, 2017  |   | Marriage & Family

  A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of visiting a woman at Mount Sinai hospital.  Her 19-year-old daughter had spent her life battling a series of life-threatening illnesses. She had never been able to speak and in just a few hours, she was about to be taken off life support.  In addition to

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