Sunday Sermon for First Communion
“As the deer long for the springs of water, so my soul longs for you, oh God.” The first words, my friends, of Psalm 41. Words that are very fitting for the occasion which we celebrate today, two young children receiving our Lord Jesus Christ for the first time in Holy Communion. And my dear […]
The example of Joan Catherine Hughes
Reflections on her life by Father M. Benedict Hughes, CMRI July 19, 2020 In the book of Tobias in the Old Testament, we read that the younger Tobias exhorted his wife Sara: We must practice virtue “for we are the children of saints” (Tobias 8:5). Indeed, we are who we are, to a great degree, […]
