Working with Adoptive Families

Since I was called to start The Family of the Good Shepherd, I have worked with Adoptive Families as well as Foster Children. While the ministry will continue to serve Foster children, I feel in prayer that the ministry needs to step up our service to adoptive...

Our Lady of Fatima

I pray you are all having a wonderful Easter Season!  As I mentioned before in my Happy Easter, May is the month of Mary!  Today we celebrate Our Lady of Fatima, along with Sts. Imelda and Julia of Norwich. I love how the regular Gospel reading for Monday of the 4th...

Happy Easter Season and Month of Mary!

We are now Joyfully in the Easter Season! Alleluia, Alleluia, He is Risen! The Month of May begins the month of Mary.  How does the month of Mary start…with St. Joseph! St. Joseph, the husband of Mary, foster father of Our Lord Jesus Christ!  Not much is said of...

Have a Blessed Triduum!

May you all have a very Blessed Triduum, leading up to the Easter Season! The summit of the Liturgical Year is the Easter Triduum—from the evening of Holy Thursday to the evening of Easter Sunday. Though chronologically three days, they are liturgically one day...

3rd week of Lent and the Annunciation!

Wow the 3rd week of Lent already! Responsorial Psalm Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11 R. (8a and 9a) Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. Sacrifice or oblation you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I,...

2nd Sunday of Lent

Happy 2nd Sunday of Lent and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Responsorial Psalm Ps 27:1, 7-8, 8-9, 13-14. R. (1a) The Lord is my light and my salvation. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be...