The Gospel will not go forward with boring, bitter evangelizers. No. It will only go forward with joyful evangelizers, full of life. #HomilySantaMarta

As part of Catholic Schools Week, we had the sixth grade choir from Saint Benedict Catholic School perform at the Pastoral Center today! Thank you for visiting us! #CSW20

Thanks to an anonymous donor, St. Mary’s School has established the Future Full of Hope scholarship program. The donor pledged $100,000 per year for 10 years to provide tuition assistance to local Catholic students who are new to the school. Learn more: bit.ly/37IpgSU

May the Lord give us the grace to send us a prophet always - be they a friend, our confessor, our child, our mother - who warns us when we are slipping into a feeling that everything seems legitimate because we have lost our sense of sin. #HomilySantaMarta

Whoever keeps their gaze fixed on Jesus learns to live in order to serve. They do not wait for others to start, but set out to seek their neighbor. #ConsecratedLife

Often we forget the Lord and deal with other gods: money, vanity, pride. Let us ask for the grace to understand when our heart begins to slide into worldliness. God's grace and love will stop us if we ask in prayer. #HomilySantaMarta

Philip Kamper, a Hermitage High School Humanities Center senior focused his senior project on educating youth about human trafficking. He views it as a way to practice his Catholic faith. Read more from The Catholic Virginian: bit.ly/39n21yw

Our prayer must not be limited only to our needs, to our necessities: a prayer is truly Christian if it has a universal dimension too.

In #TodaysGospel, Jesus encourages us to move from a formal observance of the Law to a substantial observance, accepting the Law in our hearts. From the heart comes good and bad deeds.

Saturday Feb 15th we witnessed installation of Bishop Alfred Rotich in Kericho. Pity the Media caught only mundane politics... Yet the Divine mandate to the new Shepherd was celebrated by over 10k. With the green tea carpet in the background... True blessing for the diocese!

Every one of us has something that has hardened within our heart. The medicine to combat hardheartedness is memory: recalling the blessings of the Lord. This keeps our heart open and faithful. #HomilySantaMarta

But you, Lord, will not leave us at the mercy of the storm. Tell us again: “Do not be afraid” (Mt 28:5). And we, together with Peter, “cast all our anxieties onto you, for you care about us” (cf. 1 Pet 5:7). w2.vatican.va/content/france…

It was great seeing everyone at Basilica of St. Mary Of The Immaculate Conception St. Mary's #Juneteenth voter registration drive in Norfolk this afternoon! Are you registered to vote?➡️Vote.org