As a closing to the Easter season, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Pentecost, the Descent of the Holy Spirit. Following the ascension of our Lord, on Ascension Thursday, Jesus told the apostles to wait for the Holy Spirit. “While staying with them, [Jesus] ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for […]
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At long last, following the discipline and sacrifice of the Lenten season we have arrived at the glory of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. On this Sunday we will hear the first reactions of the apostles as they are confronted with the empty tomb and grow in faith that Jesus is
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As we approach the end of the Lenten season this year we focus on two of the miracle stories within the Gospel of St. John. On the Fourth Sunday of Lent we hear the miracle of the healing of the man born blind and on the Fifth Sunday of Lent (Passion Sunday) we hear the
As February comes to a close we enter the season of Great Lent, a season to begin the spiritual practices which allow us to unite ourselves with the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ and grow closer to Him in our journey of faith. In the Gospel reading of Ash Wednesday we hear
As we now find ourselves in the Ordinary Time season following the Christmas and Epiphany solemnities, these Sundays speak to us in a different way than the Ordinary Time Sundays much later in the year. These Sundays are in some ways an extension of the Solemnity of the Epiphany. Although on that particular day we
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As we join together in the celebration of Holy Mass at midnight on Christmas Eve, or in the morning hours of Christmas Day we will have an opportunity, either before Mass or in the moments following, to approach the Manger within our parish churches and spend a few moments there in contemplation and prayer. These
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As we now enter into this Advent season, the beginning of a new liturgical year, we have a wonderful opportunity to turn over a new leaf in our spiritual and religious life. During this past year within our Future Direction program we have all been charged to accomplish five themes for ourselves and our parishes.
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We have just concluded the XXVI General Synod of the Polish National Catholic Church. It was most certainly an exhausting few days as we started off our days with early breakfast and continued with sessions all during the day and into the evening after dinner. The days were also extended since, as faithful members of
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As we find ourselves now in the month of September, there is just about one month until we gather for the XXVI General Synod held within the Central Diocese of our Church. We remind ourselves that the Holy Synod is such a critical part of what we do as members of God’s Holy Church. We
As the summer is now coming to its close, we still find ourselves within the Ordinary Time season working our way through the Gospel of St. Luke. Within the Gospel readings of these many weeks, we have been traveling with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as He makes His way from the beginnings of
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