Grace as Needed

A Homily for Father’s Day and for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary time, Year A Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.  Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. –Matthew 10:5-6–   If you

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Hooray for Fatherhood!

            In the second chapter of Saint Luke’s Gospel, Mary and Joseph discover the missing twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple, and Mary says: “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.”[1]  Our Lady is actually calling Saint Joseph

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