Posts by Father Michael Penn

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time    In the darkness and depths of life’s difficulties, God is there, whether we recognize it or not, to care for us and accompany us…

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time    Best wishes to each of you—parishioners and guests alike— for a safe and Happy Labor Day.  This day we celebrate a gift as we…

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time    Thursday morning—August 2nd— the traffic on HH was significantly backed up due to an auto accident.  How uncomfortable I felt as this trek was…

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time    Wisdom has prepared for us a banquet of food and wine: a sign that God desires communion with us.  Wisdom gives us pillars—His divine…

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time       Get rid of everything that prevents us from being in relationship with God and with each other.  It is difficult to forgive, yet God…

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   To the Israelite community, God provided bread for His people in the desert.  For us, His children, He gives us Bread from heaven, His…

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time    God feeds us with His very self: His Body and His Blood.  Unlike feeding Israel in the desert journey with manna, a substance promised…

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time    Jesus invites His apostles to a deserted place and rest awhile: in His company and in communion with one another.  The meaning of deserted…

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time    As Christians, each of us are called from being a follower to a leader.  By our Baptism, we have been anointed as “…priests, prophets…

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time    Often, Jesus was met with rejection, not only from the people of the towns and villages, but from His own family.  We, too, will…