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Fall of 2021 Retreat Opportunities at Notre Dame Retreat House
“Finding God in Life’s Transitions”September 17-19, 2021 Women’s WeekendSeptember 24-26, 2021 Men’s WeekendOctober 1-3, 2021 Women’s WeekendOctober 15-17, 2021 Couple’s Weekend October 22-24, 2021 Women’s Weekend October 29-31, 2021 Men’s WeekendEach weekend begins on...
Deborah Housel – Diocese of Rochester
Statement of a Return to Sunday Mass
A Statement on a Return to Sunday Mass by the Roman Catholic Bishops of the Upstate New York Dioceses of Buffalo, Ogdensburg, Rochester and Syracuse Praise be to Almighty God, who has been by our side throughout this long and devastating pandemic. He has...
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Jesus Sent the Twelve Disciples out two by two.
When Jesus summoned the twelve and told them he was sending them out two by two it was a kind of training mission. He gave them instructions as to what they should take with them; he told them to go to various places to stay there proclaiming the gospel and...
Independence Day: God Bless America
Archbishop John Carroll, the first bishop of Baltimore, was asked to compose the Inauguration Prayer for President George Washington’s first inauguration as President of the United States. I am going to borrow some of the lines from the Archbishop’s Inauguration...
Miracles Then and Now
This Sunday’s gospel gives us yet another account of two different people approaching Jesus seeking healing: Jairus who comes to plead that Jesus come down and heal his daughter who is at the point of death. The second, a woman afflicted with severe...
