“Lord, make us an instrument of your peace.” These words of St. Francis of Assisi resonated across eight centuries, and on June 7, 2026, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, our Collaborative, will gather to process with the Blessed Sacrament. We do so at a remarkable confluence: 800 years since Francis’s transitus (his death and entrance into eternal life, 1226), and 250 years since the birth of the United States of America (1776): One Nation under God. We do so in the prayerful context of....
SAVE THE DATE: Sunday, June 7th, 2026–The Feast of Corpus Christi, our next Eucharistic Procession! Please join in our collaborative Eucharistic Procession as we walk from St. Mary Church to the Maples, then to the....
Last week this column mentioned St. Peter and the popes who have succeeded him. One of their primary roles has always been to unify the Church in “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” (Eph. 4:5). This unity is expressed and strengthened in the Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Christ that we share as Communion each Sunday. We know that often unity can be hard to achieve, and even....