For the New Year Only God will do! It’s hard to believe that some of the people attending Mass today were not born when the movie “Jerry...

CHRISTMAS WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE St. Aloysius on the Ohio St. Simon the Apostle December 23rd 5 PM ...

Second Sunday of Advent 2023 A few weeks ago, I flew to Ireland and the flight from Newark landed in Dublin at 4.30am. Two of my nieces,...

Stars One of the major images of the Christmas story is the “Star of Bethlehem.” For centuries people navigated by looking at the stars....

Christ the King I was walking along a street in Dublin city center on a cold, wintry, wet, dark evening a few years ago, and two old...

Thanksgiving In his proclamation of the 3rd October 1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November to be National...

Stay awake and focus on what matters! When I was a child growing up in Dublin, I can recall that almost every year we had a visit from...

Miscarriage will remain legal in Ohio, even if Issue 1 fails. Miscarriage is a traumatic end to pregnancy experienced by 10-15% of all...

Profile in Courage – Standing for life is doing the right thing and that takes courage. Over the years since his assassination, we have...

Take it to heart. I don’t know if this is universally true, but I have noticed an interesting tender rivalry between the parents of...

When we share everyone has enough I could certainly be described as a picky eater. Not only don’t I experiment with my food selections I...

Curious about how the first year of Beacons of Light has gone in our 57 Families of Parishes? Archbishop Schnurr has released the Year 1...

The Heart is the Vineyard of the Lord When I was a child, I was very close to my grandfather and in his last days he gave my father a toy...

God is generous with His mercy There is a charming little village in Ireland called Fore which, in Irish Folklore, has seven wonders...

How many times must I forgive? In her old age my grandmother had beautiful long pure white hair stretching all the way down to the back...

It takes courage to be who God created you to be. Back in the seventies there were several really bad musicals about Jesus. Andrew Lloyd...

To burn with love is to really experience life as it should be lived. I was at the scene of a large house fire once where I saw a dog run...

DEAR PARISHIONERS OF ST. ALOYSIUS PARISH It has been over a year since Archbishop Schnurr appointed me as pastor of St. Aloysius on the...

Who do people say I am? According to Plato at his trial the Greek philosopher Socrates (d. 399 BC) said “the unexamined life is not worth...