The Chapel of Emerald Hill Children’s Home (5)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, as a new calendar year begins, the Church places before us a woman and a child and asks us to begin here.

We come into this year carrying many things. Relief that a difficult year has ended. Concern about what has not changed. Questions …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, it is good to be with you this morning. Today’s feast touches something very close to the heart of African life. God chooses to come to us through family — not only the small household, but the wider family that carries us, names us, and …

The readings today are about quiet, faithful service — the kind that gives without looking for thanks, that loves because it is right to love.

Dear sisters, in the first reading from the Book of Wisdom, we hear that “the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God.” The …

Sisters in Christ, today’s solemnity draws us close to a mystery both vast and familiar—the communion of saints. It is the feast of those who have allowed grace to take flesh in their ordinary lives: the faithful ones who prayed, taught, healed, wept, and forgave until their …

The readings today are about humility, service, and God’s invitation to the banquet feast of His love.

Dear sisters in Christ,

Today we remember Saint Charles Borromeo who was born into wealth, but he lived with humility. He was made a cardinal at twenty-two, yet he saw …