Spiritual Reflections
Palm Sunday Reflection – 2022
Palm Sunday - The Start of Holy Week With the celebration of Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, the church begins the celebration of the great Holy Week, the holiest of all the weeks in the Liturgical year. Palm Sunday therefore serves as the gateway to the celebration of the most profound mysteries...
Second Sunday in Lent 2022
The second Sunday of Lent is always the account of the Transfiguration. If the first Sunday of Lent is a striking reminder of Jesus’s solidarity with us in temptation, the second Sunday is meant to remind us that the glory that burst forth from Jesus’s body is a glory that he means to share with...
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Trust has consequences and trust issues have become more prominent in the 21st century. Passwords, alarms, fingerprint locks, face recognition devices and other security gadgets are common because of trust issues. It is becoming increasingly risky to trust human...
4th Sunday in OT 2022
Today’s Gospel follows last Sunday’s when Jesus solemnly announced the fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah’s text concerning the identity and the evangelizing mission of the Anointed one of God. When Jesus came back to His hometown, He may not be wearing new clothes, but there was something...
3rd Sunday in OT: Fulfilled in Faith
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022 The First Reading of today taken from the Book of Nehemiah tells of the crucial role of the Law of God in the Israel community. Ezra and Nehemiah were given the special task of God to rebuild the community. They were also given the task of rebuilding the Temple...
2nd Sunday in OT: Christ in Abundance
The first reading has Prophet Isaiah speaking to the people of Israel in exile when they were driven from their homeland. He speaks of God’s power in their life when they will be changed from being known as “Forsaken, to being known as “Chosen.” He speaks of the power of God to Change a life....
Baptism of Our Lord 2022
Through Christ's Baptism, We become Adopted Children of God Today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord in the River Jordan by John the Baptist. This feast officially ends the season of Christmas which began on the 24th Night of December. The Church as we know exists to evangelize and...
Happy New Year 2022
Dear Brother Knights, Happy New Year and greetings of Christ’s peace and Love! I pray that these words find a place in your heart to dispel the frustrations, suffering, grief, and loneliness due to COVID-19 pandemic and now Omicron. Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God On New Year’s...
Christmas Reflection 2021
Dear Brothers, On this Christmas, we encounter the splendor of the divinity of Christ, who for the sake of our salvation became man and born of the Virgin Mary. The celebration of the birth of Christ is a joyful moment and it also calls for deeper reflection. The Nativity Scene beckons us to look...
Merry Christmas 2021
Dear Brothers, "The Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means, God is with us." Matthew 1:23 Christmas is a celebration of Joy, because God has shown to us that He enjoys communion with humanity, and He does like the distance created y our human frailty....
Third Sunday of Advent 2021
GAUDETE SUNDAY = Rejoice Sunday! Is the third Sunday of Advent, this day expresses the joy of anticipation at the approach of the birth of our Lord. We are invited to rejoice because the Lord is near. Zephaniah 3: 14 – 18; Philippians 4: 4 – 7; Luke 3: 10 -18 St Paul’s first letter to the...
Second Sunday of Advent 2021
2nd Sunday of Advent Year C Baruch 5: 1-9, Phil 1: 4-6,8-11, Luke 3: 4. 6 Sometimes when people point out something that is wrong with us, we see what they are saying, recognize it as true but proceed to do nothing about it. Recognizing the truth does not compel us to alter our ways. In today’s...
Feast of the Assumption – Rev. Osei
Honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary The Church attributes three glorifying honors to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The first is the Immaculate Conception of Mary. This feast was a gradual development from the 12th century until Pope Pius IX in his Papal Bull, Ineffabilis Deus, promulgated it to be...
A Celebration of Spirit
Brother Knights, Today the church celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles in the image of tongues of fire and thus began the mission of the Church in the world. As we celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost, let us linger awhile on the action of the Holy Spirit in the Christian...
New Invocations of St. Joseph
Dear Brother Knights, The month of May dedicated to our Lady, Pope Francis prayed to entrust in the hands of our Holy Mother all of humanity, strongly tried in this period of pandemic: “In the present dramatic situation, full of suffering and anxieties that grip the whole world, we turn to you,...