FrKevinEstabrook

  Last week, on the Feast of Pope St. Sixtus, we recalled how in the mid-3 rd century, the Roman Emperor Valerian issued the cold imperial ...

  It seems strange that during this joyous easter season, we have these readings from the Acts of the Apostles about how the Church was bein...

  The month of November began with the great feast of All Saints. There are many types of saints canonized over the centuries. Saints who we...

St. John the Baptist plays a prominent role every year in our Advent preparations for Christmas. John is the great preparer, proclaiming “Pr...

  Our first readings at Mass this week have been taken from the Book of Revelation. On Wednesday, we read of John’s Vision of the Heavenly t...

Poor Saint Thomas the Apostle!  Whenever his name is heard, one tends to think of a skeptic, a doubter.  We even call people “doubting Thoma...

Saint Lawrence Ruiz is the first canonized Filipino martyr.  He was born in Manila around the year 1600 to a Chinese father and a Filipino m...

  The story of St. Justin’s conversion is well known.   Justin was born around the year 100 in the Holy Land, and was the son of pagan noble...

  Within 4 days of Christmas, we have the celebration of St Stephen, martyred for the faith, St. John the Apostle, not martyred, but excruci...

 An estimated 130,000 Catholics were martyred in Vietnam between the 17th and 19th centuries. And the tortures suffered by the Vietnamese Ca...

All throughout the scriptures God’s people are known for making music.  After escaping from the Egyptians and crossing the Red Sea, the peop...

 Last night, at the latin mass, we celebrated the vigil mass of St. Lawrence. So great was the reverence and respect for this holy saint, de...

 My final year of college seminary, I was able to spend a semester studying abroad in the Holy City of Rome.  Not only were we able to soak ...

 When I celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation last week, I was so impressed that all four of our confirmandi chose martyrs as their patro...

 In yesterday’s Gospel, the Lord condemned the Pharisees for seeking to sit upon the chair of moses—the exalted position of power and author...

  We have many great saints whose feasts days fall within the Lenten season.  Today is the feast day of saint who was born just about 40 yea...

 Saint Agatha is one of the great virgin martyrs honored by the early Roman church. She was martyred in the brief but ferocious persecution ...

About 300 years after the death of St. Ignatius of Antioch, the archbishop of Constantinople, the golden-tongued St. John Chrysostom gave a ...

 From his youth, Thomas Becket was a good friend of King Henry II, and it was the King who nominated Thomas as archbishop of Canterbury.  Bu...

  On this first weekday of Advent, we honor the apostle first-called by the Lord. The celebration of the Feast the Apostles outranks the Adv...