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This is your one task: love God and your neighbor. Do you feel that you do not know how to love God, how to do the one thing necessary?

The coin had the image of the Caesar, what has the image of God that we ought to hand it over to him?

Resurrection is the most important event in our salvation, and the cross is symbol of our faith. Cardinal McElroy speaks about how Jesus' suffering on the cross symbolizes that God loves us without limit, understands our struggle and takes our guilt and burden so we no longer need to suffer with it.

The Good News of the Third Invitation: all are invited, everything is ready!

Three considerations to overcome the temptation of thinking that life is outside of the vineyard.

Monsignor Watkins speaks on the importance of giving thanks, explaining how gratitude is a remedy to anxiety.

Our St. Irenaeus Ministry for Adult Faith Formation (SIM) launches its second year of bringing together adults who want to understand our Catholic faith more fully, experience it more deeply, and make it more relevant to our everyday lives.For their first meeting, SIM welcomed lecturer and pastor Monsignor Watkins to speak about “The Eucharist as the Perfection of Religion,” which was held in St. Ann Church on Tuesday, September 29th at 7:00pm. Next week, SIM launches our 20-session Catholicism series that will take participants on a journey around the world and deep into the faith:With acclaimed author, speaker and theologian Bishop Robert Barron, we’ll travel to more than 50 locations throughout 15 countries. You'll be illuminated by the spiritual and artistic treasures of this global culture, claiming more than one billion of the Earth’s people.You’ll experience the fullness of Catholicism in all its beauty, goodness, and truth.

Whatever "working in the vineyard" means for you, there are times in which we wrestle with God's will.

Two simple steps from the Gospel to combat envy.

Monsignor Watkins explains the parable of the workers in the vineyard.

Channels of Mercy – Fr. Joseph Piper Homily – Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sunday, September 13, 2026

How do I know that God is speaking to me in prayer, and it is not my own voice? Fr. Ivan explains in his homily.

Monsignor Watkins elaborates on the significance of titles.

Msgr. Watkins speaks on on the Lord's model of pity and the power of an openness to hear the suffering of others.

Think of your spiritual journey as constantly combatting heavy winds, and you lack the strength to fight. You must make a choice; focus on Jesus or look away to the storm around us. Peter understood the Lord was rescuing him, but he made the choice to divert his eyes to the sea of troubles around him. Taking your eyes off yourself and looking at Jesus, you can find yourself in peace and get through the storm.