Reflections

This Lent, We Embrace Our Desert, Reflect on God’s Loving Presence

1st Sunday of Lent – Year B  Lent has begun, and we will spend the next 40 days preparing for the most important feast in the Church: Easter. In order to prepare for his public ministry, Jesus Himself spent 40 [read more...]

Christ: Uniter, Healer and Restorer

6th Sunday Ordinary Time – Year B In the Book of Leviticus, God commanded that those who were infected with leprosy be cast out of society. This disease was so terrible and there was no cure for it, so the [read more...]

Deacon’s Beacon: Jesus The Healer

The Message of Sunday’s Readings As we listen to this Sunday’s First Reading from the book of Job, it sounds much like our world for the past year.  Like Job, we all come on times of stress and chaos in [read more...]

Make/Take Time for Quiet Prayer with Jesus

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Yr B  Growing up with Mary and Joseph, Jesus surely prayed with them. In Jewish society, it was customary for families to pray together. In fact, the daily life of the Jewish people was [read more...]

Tune Out the Distracting Noise… and Listen

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B The action of this Sunday’s Gospel takes place in Capernaum. Did you ever wonder why Jesus made his authority known in Capernaum not some other city? We know Jesus’ forerunner, St. John [read more...]

Protection of the Unborn: Homily by Deacon Peter LeTourneau

Protection of the Unborn: A Homily given by Our Lady of the Wayside’s Deacon Peter LeTourneau, on the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children.   To view and print Deacon Peter’s Homily, click here.  

Focus on Christ: The Kingdom of God is at Hand

3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B The readings for this Sunday convey a sense of urgency to convert and change our ways because the Kingdom of God is at hand. If we observe the world around us, we [read more...]

We Must Preserve Human Dignity to Experience God’s Love

2nd Sunday Ordinary Time – Yr B  In the world, if we want to reach some goal and want to succeed, then we must be constantly ready and able to learn something new. We must be cunning and quick to [read more...]

A Reflection On Christ’s Baptism

Baptism of the Lord Today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Many of us might be wondering why Jesus, who was sinless, needed to be baptized. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “Our Lord [read more...]

The Magi Honored Christ, As Must We

When I was first married, we worked in my wife’s family greenhouses over Christmas break. It was a pleasant time, the sun and the warmth under the glass. We were not moving poinsettias around. Mostly we were working with immature [read more...]