by Abbot | Mar 9, 2026 | Homily
Readings: First Book of Samuel 16:1-13; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians 5:8-14; Gospel According to Saint John 9:1-41 The color of the Mass vestments worn today is rose, a reminder for us to rejoice, for we are half way through the Lenten journey and our...
by Abbot | Mar 2, 2026 | Homily
Readings: Exodus 17:3-7; Romans 5:1- 8; John 4:5-42 A precious commodity anywhere, and certainly in New Mexico, is water, something many of us perhaps take for granted. For the gift of water, we are always grateful. Saint Francis of Assisi went so far as to call it,...
by Abbot | Feb 27, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of Genesis 12:1-4; Second Letter of Saint Paul to Timothy 1:8-10; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 17:1-9 This Sunday the Gospel text recounts the Transfiguration of the Lord, with its focus on that great mystery in the life of Christ and its...
by Abbot | Feb 18, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Romans 12-19; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 4:1-11 Each year the Church gives us this season of Lent to renew our intention of living more completely for Christ. Lent is a word in English that is related to...
by Abbot | Feb 9, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of Sirach 15:15-20; Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 2:6-10; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 5:17-37 As Christians believe, rooted in the words of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, that Christ came into the world to fulfill the Law and...
by Abbot | Feb 6, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 58:7-10; Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 2:1-5; Gospel of Saint Matthew 5:13-16 Listening to the Scripture lessons for this Sunday, we hear a message that is clearly about being concerned, as followers of...
by Abbot | Jan 28, 2026 | Homily
Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A Scripture Readings: Prophet Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13; Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:26-31; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 5:1-12 We continue our way through Ordinary Time, leading up to the season of Lent,...
by Abbot | Jan 20, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 8:23-9:3; Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:10-13, 17; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 4:12-33 These first Sunday’s of Ordinary Time, leading up to Lent, we are being called to reflect on the beginnings of...
by Abbot | Jan 12, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 49: 3,5-6; Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:1-3; Gospel According to Saint John 1:29-34 Probably many or maybe even most of us like to have someone travel with us when we make a long journey. It helps to...
by Abbot | Jan 9, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7; Acts of the Apostles 10:34-38; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 3:13-17 The Christmas season comes to an end with the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord. We still have a glimpse of the season when we...
by Abbot | Jan 3, 2026 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 60:1-6; Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 2:1-12 The Solemnity of the Epiphany, literally the “manifestation” or “showing,” of the Lord Jesus Christ to the nations, is...
by Abbot | Dec 31, 2025 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of Numbers 6:22-27; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 4:4-7; Gospel According to Saint Luke 2:16-21 The shepherds who “went in haste to Bethlehem,” as directed by the angel, can be understood as the whole human race seeking Jesus. The quick...
by Abbot | Dec 28, 2025 | Homily
Readings: Book of Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Colossians 3:12-21; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 In our Catholic Liturgical Calendar, the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas is always dedicated to the mystery of the Holy Family...
by Abbot | Dec 17, 2025 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 7:10-14; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans 1:1-7; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 1:18-25 It is still Adventide, with only a matter of days remaining before we celebrate the Nativity of the Lord on December 25th. We...
by Abbot | Dec 10, 2025 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 35:1-6, 10; Letter of Saint James 5:7-10; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 11:2-11 We are now very close to celebrating the Solemnity of the Lord’s Nativity, Christmas Day, on December 25th. The Lord is very near and is...
by Abbot | Dec 4, 2025 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 11:1-10; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans 15:4-9; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 3:1-12 A fundamental emphasis of the Season of Advent each year is to welcome Jesus, who came in time, who will come at the end of time,...
by Abbot | Nov 28, 2025 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Isaiah 11:1-10; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans 15:4-9; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 3:1-12 On this First Sunday of Advent, we can focus some on the fact that in order to recognize God’s gift of salvation, we need an...
by Abbot | Nov 26, 2025 | Homily
While Thanksgiving Day is a national, we could even say, secular, holiday, filled with parades and fancy meals, it is also a day for us Christians and Catholics to stop, look and listen with the ear of the heart to what our God is saying to us. First, we can say that...
by Abbot | Nov 22, 2025 | Homily
In the Liturgical Calendar of the Catholic Church, this Sunday we celebrate the last Sunday of Ordinary Time, dedicated to Christ the King. Next Sunday a new Liturgical Year begins with the First Sunday of Advent, leading up to Christmas and the celebrations...
by Abbot | Nov 10, 2025 | Homily
Readings: Book of the Prophet Malachi 3:19-20; Saint Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians 3:7-12; Gospel According to Saint Luke 21:5-19 As we come to the end of the Liturgical Year, the Church is directing us to meditate on the final times, the end of our life,...
by Abbot | Nov 9, 2025 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Ezequiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17; Gospel According to Saint John 2:13-22 Every year on November 9th, on whatever day of the week it falls, the Church recounts the dedication,...
by Abbot | Oct 27, 2025 | Homily
This year All Souls Day fall on a Sunday. Always following the festive day of All Saints on November 1st, in our Catholic Liturgical calendar the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls) on November 2nd has a particular character or structure. All Souls Day...
by Abbot | Oct 22, 2025 | Homily
Book of Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18; Second Letter of Saint Paul to Timothy 4:6-8; 16-18; Gospel According to Saint Luke 18:9-14 Jesus’ famous parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector praying in the temple might seem like an exaggeration or a parody, even something...
by Abbot | Oct 14, 2025 | Homily
Readings: Book of Exodus 17:8-13; Second Letter of Saint Paul to Timothy 3:14-4:2; Gospel According to Saint Luke 18:1-8 Our ancestors in the faith, the children of Israel, went forth from slavery in Egypt accompanied by the patriarch Moses. Their destination was the...
by Abbot | Oct 7, 2025 | Homily
Readings: Second Book of Kings 5:14-17; Second Letter of Paul to Timothy 2:8:13; Gospel According to Saint Luke 17:11-19 Throughout the Gospels we read that our Lord had the power of healing people. Sometimes the faith of the one or more persons who want to be cured...
