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...

  For the past two weeks of the easter season, we have been reading from the acts of the apostles. We’ve heard Peter preaching in the street...

 As I began preparing to write my homily this weekend, I was trying to recall the last time we celebrated the Feast of the Presentation—Cand...

This week I watched a brilliant little film with a priest friend of mine. Neither of us had heard of it before, and so we gave it a chance, ...

 Light. Light features prominently in our faith. The first thing God created was light. God’s first words in the Bible are “Let there be lig...

  Chapter 25 of Matthew’s Gospel contains the Lord’s final teachings prior to the beginning of his Passion. In it we read two parables—the p...

In the Gospel, Jesus stresses the importance of allowing the light he gives us to shine forth for others to see. The idea that God’s wor...