Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Sunday Homilies
My Sunday homilies are now being posted on the Church website. If you would like to hear the homilies, please visit www.olvboston.com.
St Philip Neri
Today we honor a saintly priest who lived in Rome during the middle of the 1500's, when Catholicism was recovering from the Protestant Revolution, and when St Ignatius was beginning the foudnations of the Society of Jesus in Spain. He was a joyful priest, finding in his vocation the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit.
His is an example for all of us to know that whatever vocation is yours, find peace and joy in your work. Many people are miserable in their careers, but they stay in it, usually because of the money. Love what you do, as long as it builds up the Kingdom of God and does not lead to immorality. And pray for your priests. we need more priests to be cheerful in their vocation. In fact, this is the antidote the shortage of vocations. Young men will be attracted to serving God as a Catholic priest if they find other Catholic priests to be happy and joyful.
His is an example for all of us to know that whatever vocation is yours, find peace and joy in your work. Many people are miserable in their careers, but they stay in it, usually because of the money. Love what you do, as long as it builds up the Kingdom of God and does not lead to immorality. And pray for your priests. we need more priests to be cheerful in their vocation. In fact, this is the antidote the shortage of vocations. Young men will be attracted to serving God as a Catholic priest if they find other Catholic priests to be happy and joyful.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Mother's Day
Another year has gone by and we are celebrating Mother's Day, 2010. In this past year, motherhood is still disparaged throughout our society, and many news outlets are calling new pro-life measures in some states harmful to women. And with divorce and absent fathers, many women are trying to raise children on thier own and they are not getting much help. Even in the families where the fathers are present, many mothers are frustrated and exhausted.
God's original plan for motherhood was not to be this way. A mother is to be united with her husband the two shall become one flesh. Fathers are called to be a support for their wives, who are the mothers of their children. And mothers are, in the words of Pope John Paul II, the heart of the home.
The dignity and respect that we owe all women is immeasurable, especially in light of salvation history, when God, in the fullness of time, sent his Son, born of a woman. With Mary as the model for all mothers, we can see that society has fallen a long way away from the dignity of womankind.
During this month of May, let us turn to the Blessed Mother, and ask her for her intercession for an increase in respect for women and an increase in a culture of life where women will not turn to abortion but have loving fathers who are willing to be there for the children that are conceived. Mothers are a precious gift, for it is thorugh a mother that she becomes a co-creator with God, knitting a child in her womb and carrying her child for nine months, so that with each child born, our world is changed.
Let also pray for all mothers, both living and deceased on this Mother's Day.
God's original plan for motherhood was not to be this way. A mother is to be united with her husband the two shall become one flesh. Fathers are called to be a support for their wives, who are the mothers of their children. And mothers are, in the words of Pope John Paul II, the heart of the home.
The dignity and respect that we owe all women is immeasurable, especially in light of salvation history, when God, in the fullness of time, sent his Son, born of a woman. With Mary as the model for all mothers, we can see that society has fallen a long way away from the dignity of womankind.
During this month of May, let us turn to the Blessed Mother, and ask her for her intercession for an increase in respect for women and an increase in a culture of life where women will not turn to abortion but have loving fathers who are willing to be there for the children that are conceived. Mothers are a precious gift, for it is thorugh a mother that she becomes a co-creator with God, knitting a child in her womb and carrying her child for nine months, so that with each child born, our world is changed.
Let also pray for all mothers, both living and deceased on this Mother's Day.
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