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Pray and Reflect
These homilies and reflections by Father Silas explore the Readings of the Sunday Mass and the times and sesons of the Christian life
The Third Sunday of Advent (2025)
Faith is a decision to believe, and doubt can often play a role in the growth and the development of our faith
The Second Sunday of Advent
It is this grace of repentance that allows those divine gifts offered to Isaiah’s promised king to also take root in each of us
The First Sunday of Advent
This is the time we've been given and we are expected to do something with it!
Christ the King 2025
It is in the gift of love and forgiveness that we realize our dignity and worth.
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
Jesus stands with us, offering us God’s wisdom, asking us to give our witness to the world and to offer our testimony with courage and faith
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica (2025)
We have to live and pray and work in such a way that the glory of God will shine out from us.
All Souls Day (2025)
Work remains to be done, and we continue to be faced with essential questions. We continue to pray and entrust those we have lost to God’s mercy.
The Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time (2025)
“We belong to the humus, the soil, and it is in this belonging that we can find the deepest reason for gratitude.”
The Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
“Will not God secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night?”
The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
No transformative change ever comes without being grounded in the vision of the Reign of God
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
As we seek to be faithful, are we fulfilling our obligations to one another?
The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (2025)
God has hidden the seed of divine life in our experiences of suffering
The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
Humility is that virtue that allows us to understand who and what we are as God’s children
The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
The way we live proclaims to the world in which we live is that salvation is for all, and we are evidence of this
The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
What are you passionate about? What stirs up the fire within you?
The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
God is ready and waiting to open the door when we knock, to give us what we ask, to reveal himself when we seek
The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
This story is a lesson in discipleship which invites us to reflect on how we recognize and welcome Jesus as he comes to us today
The Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time (2025)
This Sunday’s Gospel reminds us that our commitment to live as disciples of Jesus asks that we imitate his selfless service