November 4, 2025
Listen: Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
As the liturgical year winds down with the 31st week in Ordinary Time, All Souls Day on November 2nd gently preempts our usual Sunday celebration, inviting us to pause and remember the faithful departed. Far from a somber interruption, this ancient commemoration—rooted in the Benedictine tradition and echoed in vibrant global customs like Día de los Muertos—proclaims God’s triumphant love over death. Join Father Jim Sabak as he reflects on unbreakable bonds, enduring hope, and the life that death cannot conquer…
Communion of Saints: Deepening our Relationships with Those We’ve Lost
Through the communion of saints, we all have a profound second chance: not to erase the past, but to speak love into eternity and reclaim the relationship that death could not sever...
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Breaking Down Barriers
Reflect One of the saddest realizations of our current culture is how polarized we Americans have become—politics, faith, how we treat people different than us. While polarizations are living in camps or opposite spectrums, alienation completely isolates and ignores those ...
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How Can Mary Be the ‘Mother of God’?
In the second part of the Hail Mary, we say, "Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen." My fundamentalist brother wants to know how Mary can be the mother ...
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‘I Was the Beloved’
I needed to remember who I was in the midst of this loss of control and rejection. I was the beloved.
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After judge’s order, Trump administration to issue partial SNAP payments