Happy Easter from Hawaii! The day after Easter Sunday my family and I flew to the island of Oahu for a much-anticipated two weeks of vacation together. If you As we continue into this season celebrating the Lord’s resurrection and His triumph over sin & death, my...
In preparing for Pentecost this last weekend, I found myself unexpectedly melancholic. Though not unfamiliar emotional territory, I was caught off guard by the strength of the feeling of sorrow at the end of Easter. Sitting in my chapel on Saturday morning, I was...
(Wikipedia has helpful side-by-side translations) In just a couple of days we will celebrate the last day of Easter and the birthday of the Church – Pentecost Sunday. The sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit) will be chanted just before we hear the...
Happy Easter! It is strange to find ourselves in the final week before the end of the season, the celebration of Pentecost, and the return to Ordinary Time. After the forty days of Lent, the forty days leading up to the Ascension, and these last ten days before...
Across the archdiocese, announcements are being made at every parish about priest transitions. On one hand – and I’m surely not alone in this! – it is good to finally have priest (re)assignments known publicly. On the other hand, this is another...
