For the past five years, our Office of Multicultural Ministry has gathered Catholics from as many different cultures represented in the Archdiocese for a celebration in the cathedral. While the attendance at such celebrations is still slow to come back since COVID, the joy and beauty were on full display Read more…
As we begin this Sacred Triduum, I share with you the homily from this evening’s Mass of the Lord’s Supper at St. James Cathedral. You can watch the video below, or read the text that follows. As I write, a group of young adults has begun a pilgrimage in Seattle Read more…
Generation to generation, God is faithful, and continues to call His family to be a people of faith. So begins this Year of the Family … On this Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of Mary, we read in Sacred Scripture of God’s patience and faithfulness. God promised Abraham his descendants Read more…
The Prophet Isaiah in today’s readings again renews the call of Lent: “Let us set things right.” The readings today give us three perspectives for self-examination. The towns of Sodom and Gomorrah were notorious for the sinful practices so prevalent in their day. Thus, the first point for our consideration Read more…
Merry Christmas! God’s entrance into the world through the Incarnation allows us to penetrate the ways of God. The humility of Christ to enter our humanity creates the capacity for us to share in his divinity! Is there room for God in our world today? Is there room for Christ Read more…
Today’s readings continue the call to conversion of this Advent season. As the Prophet Zephaniah proclaims, we must confess our own ‘rebellious, polluted and tyrannical’ ways that ignore God. Now is the time to admit we no longer hear God’s voice or accept correction, and have failed to place our Read more…
Today we celebrated another Catholic Schools Mass with help from students at Holy Names Academy. Our readings on the feast of St. Leo the Great give us at least two titles. Imagine beginning each day mindful of the reality that each of us is a child of God… This would Read more…
Jesus speaks of the Kingdom of God in today’s readings. The Kingdom can be likened to a small mustard seed or a tiny amount of yeast. Each are representative of humble beginnings which advance great growth. Similarly, we as disciples of Jesus and servants of his Kingdom are to become Read more…
Today’s readings are summarized nicely in the words of St. Paul to the Ephesians: I urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to persevere in the unity of the Read more…
As this day draws towards sunset, I invite all of us to turn to our Blessed Mother, whose birth we recall this day. Mary played a pivotal role in the history of salvation. She, in all humanity, by God’s grace, became a worthy woman who would conceive the Son of Read more…