Come January, St. Mary of the Angels will enter Renew My Church, phase I: Discernment and Decisions.  “Parish teams selected by the pastors meet with other parish teams in their grouping to pray and reflect upon the current realities of their communities. The...

November 1, 2020 This past year has been filled with challenges—new and old—as the Covid-19 pandemic has affected each and everyone of us. We had to go three months without Sunday Mass and other Sacraments: many weddings, baptisms, and First Holy Communions had to be...

October 25, 2020 All fatherhood comes from God (cf. Ephesians 3:14-15), but us men seem reluctant to embrace it and live it—we prefer to remain as little boys, being fed by our mothers and playing with our toys and silly games. Yet women call us to sacrifice ourselves...

October 18, 2020 In an interview a few years ago, Pope Francis’ reflections on the Church gave us some valuable insights into family and marriage. This makes sense, since God entrusts every family to a mother and father, just as God entrusts the Church—his family—to...

 October 11, 2020 In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus condemned the Jewish Leaders for being tenant farmers who refused to give the owner of the vineyard his share of the fruit. Instead, “the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third...

Some think St. Paul’s statement: “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22) is sexist and old fashion, perhaps like using Mary and Jesus as paradigms of femininity and masculinity. Yet any misreading of St. Paul to “lord over” women would be...

Let’s return to the Gospel scene of the wedding feast of Cana. Mary presented Jesus with a problem: “They have no wine.” Jesus responds: “Woman, what is this to you and to me? My hour has not yet come” (John 2:4). When God gave Eve to the first man, Adam called his...

St. Mary of the Angels is celebrating a Year of the Family, we are considering topics that can support Christian marriages and families, which would mean supporting wives and mothers (as well as husbands and fathers, but on that we’ll write later).  Because...