Happy Birthday, Mary! Sept. 8 is the day when the Catholic Church celebrates Mary’s Nativity, nine months after Dec. 8, when we celebrate Mary being Immaculately Conceived. Recently I was asked ab...Read More
Some of you may have heard in the news that a few weeks ago, someone put up flyers on Latino-owned businesses in Hampton, flyers that expressed the hateful sentiment that illegal immigrants should be ...Read More
In Iowa, our Bishop is the Archbishop, making our diocese the Archdiocese. An Archbishop is the Bishop who oversees and leads the other bishops in his region, or in the USA, the other bishops of the s...Read More
Let’s talk about the Ark of the Covenant. I do not mean Noah’s Ark (which was a big boat). I mean a special golden treasure chest that Moses was commanded by the Lord to build (cf Exod 25:10-22). ...Read More
Do you have a garden at your house? Invite Fr. Kevin to come and bless it! There is a tradition that on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption “produce of fields, gardens, and orchards” (that ...Read More
At the opening of the National Eucharistic Congress, 55,000 people were gathered for Eucharistic Adoration and Bishop Cozzens of Crookston, MN, led a prayer, which I found very moving. Here is but a...Read More
July 17-20 the National Eucharistic Congress occurred in Indianapolis. An estimated 55,000 attended! These thousands of people gathered for Liturgical prayer together: Mass, Adoration, Eucharistic...Read More
This week, Thur. July 25 a good friend of mine from Loras College, Sister Lydia Marie Edwards, will be taking her Final Vows as a religious sister with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, in Nashvil...Read More