This fall, the cathedral celebrates an important birthday. 95 years ago, workers from Quebec arrived at the new church of the Most Blessed Sacrament on a train with a whole boxcar of wood, metal tubing, screws, wiring, leather, and pipes. These 3,504 pipes ranged in size from that of a narrow pencil to thirty-two feet. …
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Beautiful Mercy
Every now and then, the NAB translation of the Scriptures we use at Mass combined with our modern culture may leave us with less clarity than the author intended. I’m no Greek scholar, but one of my favorite teachers says that according to the Greek original, the man in today’s gospel story owes the king …
Perspective
I am not sure how many of you feel, but I had a very difficult time this past spring when life as we knew it changed. I thought it would only be for a couple weeks, but as the time kept extending and we all realized this would not end in just a few weeks …
Deacon on Duty – Love Stories
Deacon on Duty – Love Stories Our Gospel this weekend is a real doozy. On the surface, Jesus basically ignores a distraught woman, announces her unworthiness because of her nationality, and then compares her to a dog. The seemingly unloving nature of this passage reminds me of the story of Abraham and Isaac from Genesis. …