St. Mary's Basilica
Phoenix, Arizona
Pastor’s Notes
“Comfort, give comfort to my people,” old Isaiah the prophet cries out in the first reading of this Sunday. Comfortable…These words are connected with Advent tension. They leave musical echoes of Handel’s Messiah ringing our ears. But for Israel, after all the suffering, exile,…
Pastor’s Notes
“Once upon a time,“ “Algun dia,” someday,” “somehow,“ “someone” will pull it together. These coming weeks of Advent celebrate possibilities… “On that day,” says the prophet Isaiah, a vision of the ways things can be will be realized. But wait. There is more. Our…
Pastor’s Notes
God’s High Society. The Solemnity of Christ the King is the last Sunday in Ordinary Time. The history of this feast dates to 1925 when the fascists were coming into power in Italy, Spain and finally Germany. As Communism was threatening the social fabric…