bulletin articles
Like my homilies, my bulletin articles are written for a particular audience: my parishioners. On weeks when an article is written just for them, I don't publish it here.
2026
- Our True King
- Give to God What Belongs to God
- St. Francis of Assisi Wasn't Born a Saint
- Why We Sing the Kyrie in Greek
- Follow Me: The Call of St. Matthew
- The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- Guarding What Matters Most
- The Transfiguration, the Assumption, and Our Resurrection
- St. Philip Neri Seminary
- Saints Joachim and Anne, and Our Grandparents
- What Does a Priest Do All Summer?
- Symbols in the Church and at Mass
- Not a Vending Machine for Sacraments: What a Priest Is
- Pentecost: The Second Greatest Feast
- Called to Holiness: Why Priests Make a Retreat
- Encountering Christ on the Road to Emmaus
- Why Easter Is the Greatest Feast
- Holy Week: What Are All These Feasts?
- Is God Unfair?
- Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving Against the Three Temptations
- Gifts We Cannot Keep to Ourselves
- What Stewardship Really Is
2025
- The Nativity in Art
- Gaudete Sunday and the O Antiphons
- Living Our Faith Boldly, One Step at a Time
- Advent: The Courage to Be Counter-Cultural
- Why Celebrate a Church in Rome? The Lateran Basilica
- All Souls Day on a Sunday
- Celebrating the Holiday Season as Catholics
- We Are Made for Heaven
- Who Are Our Local Saints?
- Why Go on Pilgrimage?
- Love Your Enemies, and Lift Your Eyes to Heaven
- Do Not Fear the Cross
- Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori
- Back to School: We All Have a Part to Play
- Why Do We Have Holy Days of Obligation?
- The Gift of Silence
- Don't Be Lukewarm: The Precepts of the Church
- How to Pray Lectio Divina
- Sundays Give Shape to Our Lives
- Saints Peter and Paul: The Foundations of the Church
- What the Eucharist Is, and What It Does
- Grasping at the Mystery of the Trinity
- Divine Mercy
- Easter: What are we celebrating?
- Holy Week
- Unity as a Parish through Worship
- Looking Forward, with hope, as one Parish
- Celebrating our Holy Patron, St. Joseph
- The Mass: being Spiritually Prepared for the Eucharist
- Preparing for Lent
- The Mass: Why did we kick out the catechumens?
- On suffering and the tragic mid-air collision in Washington, D.C.
- The Mass: the Readings
- The Mass: the "Collect" Prayer
- The Creed series on pause for a while
- The Creed: Part Seventeen
2024
- The Creed: Part Sixteen
- Holy Days & the Immaculate Conception
- The Creed: Part Fifteen
- The Creed: Part Fourteen
- The Creed: Part Thirteen
- All About Mass Intentions
- The Creed: Part Twelve
- The Creed: Part Eleven
- The Creed: Part Ten
- The Creed: Part Nine
- The Creed: Part Eight
- The Creed: Part Seven
- The Creed: Part Six
- The Creed: Part Five
- The Creed: Part Four
- The Creed: Part Three
- The Creed: Part Two
- The Creed: Part One
- The Importance of Keeping Pentecost
- 1000 Years and the same Love of God
- The Joy of the Sacraments
- The Mercy of God Conquers Death