Eccl 1:2, 2:21-23 / Col 3:1-5, 9-11 / Lk 12:13-21
Before any of us goes into the confessional, we usually spend a few minutes making an examination of conscience. There are many great examinations of conscience out there to help…

Is 66:10-14 / Gal 6:14-18 / Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 or 10:1-9 
Who made me? God made me. Why did He make me? To know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world and to be happy with…

(Fr Augustine H.T. Tran attended seminary at the North American College in Rome, Italy and was ordained to the holy priesthood in 1998. He serves in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, and is currently a teacher at Blessed Trinity High…

Happy New Year, everyone! As you all know, this week the Church began a new liturgical year; and, as usual, we begin the new year with the Season of Advent, a four-week period of preparation for the arrival, the…

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(Fr Augustine H.T. Tran attended seminary at the North American College in Rome, Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1998. He serves in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, and is currently in residence…

A word that very often pops up in our culture today is the word “scandal”. We hear it in reference to presidents, priests, and politicians. We talk of scandalous behavior, scandalous jokes, and even the scandal of the cross. Yet,…

“I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us” (Rom 8:18). Romans 8, as a whole, discusses a beautiful, but very difficult to accept and much misunderstood teaching…

It’s an unfortunate reality of our post-conciliar age that there has been a general decline in the devotional life of Catholics. The Second Vatican Council stressed the importance of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, reminding us that it is…

We celebrate this coming weekend, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, which is more commonly known as Corpus Christi. That’s what the priest says to you when you come up to receive Communion, Corpus Christi…

In 1930, at a conference of Anglican prelates in the Lambeth Palace, for the first time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Church of England declared that it was morally licit for married couples to use contraceptives under some very strict…