Please be aware that Holy Mass will be celebrated at 10.00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day and that the Gift Shop will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.

18 November, The Dedication of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Today’s celebration of the 74th anniversary of our community’s foundation compels me to say a few words. Better than anything that could arise from my imagination are these words of Oscar Romero: …we plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water […]

God, my God, because you are mine, I lack nothing.  And because I am yours, I will glory in you, God, my savior, for eternity.  In all my sadness, you prepare for me in you the banquets of homage.  And where is my soul’s well-being if not in you, O God of my life?  If […]

Not one who has begun, but one who shall persevere unto the end, they shall be saved.  There are many who begin, few who persevere. Perseverance is the singular daughter of the high king, the goal of virtues and their consummation, repository of all good, a virtue without which no one shall see God, nor shall one […]

I am now able to see what I must seek for and receive before I may hope to attain to a higher and holier state.  I do not wish to be suddenly on the heights, my desire is to advance by degrees.  The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of […]

My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.O you whom no one truly seeks and does not find,come within usthat we may go to you and live in you,for surely this comes not from the personwilling, nor from the person running,but from you who have mercy!Inspire us first that we may believe!Strengthen […]

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord. I love you, O Lord, my strength; through you every hostile power yields to me, worm that I am, and the guile of the ancient Serpent is laughed to scorn by the angels you send to minister to us, so that his desire to hurt is […]

Please be advised that the Gift Shop will be closed on Thursday, July 4, (Independence Day) and will reopen again on Friday, July 5.

 “My king and my God – God, love and joy – my soul and my heart are jubilant to you. My heart desires to greet, praise, magnify, and bless you, life of my soul, my God – God living and true, fountain of sempiternal light … And with what will I reward you, my Lord, for […]

Only, be grateful for God’s grace; and as you have been transformed into a new creation by Easter’s healing action, so walk always in newness of life.  You have been given a share in Christ through the fellowship of faith, by participation in his sacrament, by communion in the Holy Spirit.  Strive not only to […]