Deacon Doug Mould

Come, Holy Spirit! Come, Holy Spirit! A couple weeks ago, Father Tom asked that we begin our liturgies and homilies by invoking the Holy Spirit to be present to us as we worship God, to animate us and draw us closer to Him. And that is so appropriate with the Gospel reading for this Mass […]

In the second reading today from the Letter to the Colossians, Saint Paul says something rather peculiar: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body which is the church.”  We know that Paul

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Okay, now, be honest.  When you just made the sign of the cross, was that an instinctive reaction, or were you really thinking of what you were doing? Too often, I think, we get into habits where we do things

In the Gospel passage that we just heard, Jesus and his disciples are at the Last Supper; they finished their meal, Jesus had already washed the disciples’ feet, and Judas just left to betray Jesus.  And then Jesus says something rather curious.  As soon as Judas left, Jesus says, “Now is the Son of Man

At the end of the Last Supper, Jesus says to Peter, “Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail.”  But Peter cannot even allow for the possibility that he would ever let the Lord down. “Lord, I am prepared

Last week we heard that the homilies given during the Season of Lent this year would focus on the Sacrament of Reconciliation with the theme “Healing Our Wounded Hearts.”  Our hearts, and indeed our souls, are wounded by sin, and it is only through the mercy of God through the death, resurrection and ascension of

For the past week or so in the daily Mass Readings, the Church has been reading from the first Book of Kings, and we’ve been hearing about the rise of Solomon to the kingship of Israel.  Solomon was the son of King David, of whom God promised “I will raise up your offspring after you,

The changing of water into wine by Jesus at the wedding feast at Cana is the first “sign” or “miracle” that is performed by Jesus; we’ve all heard the story time and time again, and we should be very familiar with it.  But it’s unfortunate (at least in my opinion) that the lectionary omits the