Author: Fr. Peter

Today is the feast of St. James the brother of our Lord. Fr. Greg and I served the Divine Liturgy of St. James. We had been preparing for this for months and it...

I guess you could consider today to be a very busy day for me. I have no less then three meetings to attend to today. And I guess you could say that they are so...

Word has reached us here in the village that Pope Benedict is going to sign what is called in the Roman Church as a Universal Indult. Since the suppression on t...

Yesterday I posted about church names and I mentioned if it was up to me, I would choose the name St. Snuffies. Some of you asked for the story behind that part...

Today on the Romanian Church Calendar is the feast of St. Parascheva. I believe her feast is latter in the year on the Greek calendar. I had the opportunity las...

Fr. Greg has a post on his blog about how the cathedral got it’s name. I find this topic interesting so I thought I would post about how our church, St. M...

Recently I wrote about loving your enemies. I spoke on this topic in church last Sunday and had some comments after from parishioners. Like I said, this is a ha...

In my previous post I mentioned my work as a fire chaplain. This has been a very rewarding ministry for me for the past few years. I serve a small department ma...

One of the most difficult parts of ministry is to be at the side of a family after the death of a loved one. This time is one of great spiritual grace for me as...

I mentioned this last week, but Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston is in Rome and has begun a blog. Although he does not make the posts himself, someone on ...