Fr Stefan writes a litany to Mary

Father Stefan creates a Litany to Mary Mary the New Eve Send us the Spirit of JesusMary who the Angel said is Full of Grace Pour the Grace of the Holy Spirit upon usMary Mother of the all the Living Send us the Spirit of JesusMary the New Temple Send us the Spirit of...

Are funerals about the living

Monica said to St Augustine ‘I don’t care where you put this body of mine but don’t forget me at the altar of God.’ We often hear funerals are about the living not the dead. When I was first ordained over 27 years ago. When we got a funeral on the form was also a time...

Pain.. thought

A thought that struck me… a modern middle class person experiences less physical pain than a king 300, 500 a 1000 years ago.. the average middle class person has a level of physical comfort that rivaled or surpassed a person of nobility 1000 years ago!!! Why do I say...

Dream of man in the hospital

A dream!! Yesterday I was asked to go to a room.. a man of the Baptist faith.. he had a dream.. I was told before I went in the dream ‘a nun gave him Communion’ So in the room what does the nun look like ’white with blue ‘ I already had a sense before this that the...

Today is feast of the Miraculous Medal

A story about the Miraculous Medal!! When I was assigned to St Mary Fredericjsburg.. I went on a trip to England and Paris… today like to share my M medal story…i was walking thought Hyde Park.. pack pack on me.. looking for my hotel.. it was dark.. knowing that the...

Scapular story

St Therese Little Flower, Scapular!!! Yesterday 2 people came to Mass at the hospital..asked me to go visit 2 people, and give the sacraments.. which I did.. While I left second room.. a lady asked me to gIve Last Rites to her husband.. he was going to be taken off of...

St Therese Mother Theresa

I had a dream 2 weeks ago.. Saw St Therese the little flower.. but St Therese was transformed in St Mother Theresa of Calcutta.. and I saw Mother Theresa surrounded with Roses, and sending Ruses to Earth.. It was as if.. Mother Thersa was fulfilling St Thersa mission...

Reading a book on Mother Theresa

As I read this book.. it strikes me that as a brash young 22 year old, just out of college, how I went to Calcutta to see and work with Mother Theresa the Summer of 1992. How lucky I was that according to this excellent book on her life, how much she travelled that...

My day off…

Most of my masses in Nov are for the souls in Purgatory.. which I did offer but knowing my plans for the day.. remembered in a special way the souls of people who died because of Communism.. and knowing I was going to a museum that honored them.. without a ticket.....