Patience is a key Advent virtue, and one for which our culture is especially ill-suited. Christmas music fills the air waves since before Thanksgiving. You may well attend a Christmas party by this weekend. Relatedly, technology has diminished our ability to be patient. Texts are more efficient than calls, and who in the world sits down to write a letter to a friend or...

This Monday, we were blessed to provide food for 333 families. Thank you for your continued generosity-especially to our friends at Rose of Lima, St. Francis, St. Bartholomew, Our Lady of Mercy parishes, and to St. Martin’s parishioners. We are also deeply grateful for...

Advent blessings! When I meet with couples for marriage preparation, I will sometimes ask them when it was that they began to prepare for marriage. They will likely respond by referring to the date they got engaged or when they first discussed marriage while dating. The answer is surprising, though: they first began preparing for marriage when they were little kids. It started with seeing how their parents...