Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish

Dear Family in Christ, Father Janusz, Father Don and I recently watched ‘Coco’, the 2017 Disney movie inspired and built around the Mexican cultural celebration Dia de los Muertos (a quasi-Catholic celebration of All Souls’ Day). Central to the theme of the movie (read: it does not accurately reflect Church teaching nor Mexican culture) is the practice of remembering the dead through pictures and celebrations. There is an urgency to this practice in the movie, as the souls of the departed...

Today’s Gospel concerns people who go to church, but also those who don’t go to church. Those who don’t come to church sometimes torment us exactly because we go. During one meeting of Christian students some said: “People go to church with a pious face, with the Bible under their left arm and with a song book under the right one. They sing Hallelujah with a loud voice all excited; they receive Communion with great devotion, but they are hypocrites. As soon as they go out of the church, they...

Dear Family in Christ,  I wanted to share with you an abridged excerpt of a sermon from Francis Chan, a popular American evangelical preacher who made headlines in the Catholic world with a sermon that just seemed very… Catholic. In this Sunday’s homily, I’ll refer to Francis’ sermon in relation to Christian unity, what Jesus left us with and commanded us to do, and the haunting question from today's Gospel: “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?” God love you,  Father Corso...