FrKevinEstabrook

  For decades of his life, St. Augustine wandered in the darkness. He sought happiness in the pleasures of the flesh. He sought happiness in...

“Do not weep” the Lord said to the mournful mother. For any grief-stricken parent, those are challenging words. How does a parent hold back ...

  Two weeks ago, we heard the story of the woman at the well.   She encountered the Lord Jesus, who said to her, “I will give you living wat...

  Last week, we considered the wisdom of the parable of the weeds and the wheat and how many of the saints throughout history, if you would ...

 This month, many of my bulletin columns and homilies have been about the virtue of humility. If you remember, we began the month of August ...

Prior to his conversion to Christianity, Ambrose was of the Roman nobility, trained in the classics, a poet, and a noted orator and governor...

  Thanks for everyone’s prayers these last two weeks. I had a very restful time away. A few priest friends of mine and I rented a little hou...

  We have come again to the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.  I don’t know who dreads this Sunday more, the priests who have to attempt t...

 The epistle today contains one of the most dramatic responses to the call to repentance in the entire old testament—the entire a city of Ni...

  Ambrose was of the Roman nobility, trained in the classics, a poet, and a noted orator made governor of the northern Italian city of Milan...

As I mentioned last week, the four candles of the Advent wreath traditionally represent the four Advent themes of hope, love, joy, and pea...

Throughout Advent, we are confronted with quite an interesting dimension of God’s plan for human redemption: God works so often through inte...

Lent is a powerful call to repentance, and repentance is a matter of life and death. As we heard from the prophet Ezekiel this morning: ...

Inside our school entrance is a lovely advent wreath, and written on the wall behind the Advent wreath are the words: “Advent is a time fo...

In his biography, the Confessions, St. Augustine details his conversion from heresy to orthodoxy, from vice to virtue. For years Augustine w...

Pope Benedict XVI wrote about St. Augustine, “A civilization has seldom encountered such a great spirit who was able to assimilate Chris...