33rd Week in Ordinary Time. A Call to Vigilance, A call to Serve. Each year as we draw a close to the liturgical year, we listen to scriptures about the end times.  The Word of God calls us to vigilance, reminding us that the Lord is near.  Although the hour of the Lord's return … Continue reading A Call To Vigilance is a Call to Service

  Today we here of the great love of God shown in the great gift of two Widows.   As we reflect on these women of faith and trust we must understand that a widow with an only son would have been truly marginalized and on the peripheries,  The poorest of the poor, no one … Continue reading Giving Your All, Brings forth God’s Blessings

    31st Week in Ordinary Time This week we listen to a not only a word about Love, but a real call to embody and embrace the Love that comes to us from the Father.   When asked the greatest of the commandments Jesus responds and calls on the People to hear in the … Continue reading God’s Love, Your power to Love.

  By all means people get to Jesus. Our God is an awesome God and desires to restore us and to make us whole.  Each of us comes as women and men broken, blinded by our  challenges and need to touch the healing hand of Jesus.   Today the Word of God leads us to … Continue reading Get to Jesus By All Means Possible, Step into your Blessing

Mission Sunday, 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Greetings from the River City, Richmond Virginia, three of us from Saint Joseph came to the National Black Catholic Men’s conference. The conference which welcomes all Catholic men came to “The River City” oh the subject “Know Yourself, Share Yourself”. Each of us is, gifted, equipped and anointed … Continue reading Show Up, Stand Up, Serve

  How often do we look at our lives, our circumstances, and we state. "This is impossible."  We look at our resources, our abilities and talents and we simple say.   "It's impossible I just can't do it or I just can't make it."    In our lives it may seem daily that we find … Continue reading God makes the Impossible Possible, The Un-doable, doable, the unthinkable, thinkable

  God created and saw all that he created as good.   In creating the natural world around us the high point of His creation is Man.  In creating Man in His own image, God created him to be in relation with others.   In Genesis we hear,  "It is not good for Man to … Continue reading Family, Where we Courageously Live the Gospel

This week we see how the Lord imparts His Spirit and ability upon us.  It is God's desire that we share in His authority.   So often we do not realize that not only does God love us, and desire that we do great things for him, but that He empowers us with His grace … Continue reading Oh, That we might All be Prophets! Let’s be a Prophetic Church.

  We live in a world where people want to be first, we seek to place ourselves above, or as being worth more than others.  There are those voices that would say everyone else get behind me, "I'm First"!   To be first has the connotation of others being and having less significance than the … Continue reading To be First of All, We must be Servants all.

Our coming together this week brings us to a place before the very presence of God.  For as we approach our God we recognize God's goodness towards us.  Because it is out of God's goodness and willingness to allow us to be born into his Word of truth.   James 1:17&18  God's desire and willingness … Continue reading You Can’t Beat God’s Giving. So what are you giving back?