I had just finished celebrating Mass. With altar servers ahead of me, I was processing down the aisle towards the back of the church. A...

The liturgical cycle has brought us once again to the season of Advent. The Advent season is unique in the sense that it anticipates...

Today is the Passover of the Lord. When Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples for the last time, it was different than all the...

Scripture Readings The story of Abraham willing to sacrifice his only son Isaac mystifies me on multiple levels. Even though surrounding...

Lent always raises a few all-familiar questions, “What are you doing for Lent?” or, “What are you giving up for Lent?” Answers to...

It has been quite a year. As parish priest of 5 parishes, life is a little complicated these days. The last two years have been...

At the school Mass last week, I processed into Church with a manger – the very one in the picture. The students were intrigued but...

On Palm Sunday, I recall inviting everybody to make Holy Week a time to ‘remember’ the events of our redemption. I recall saying that as...

“Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” Proclaiming those words during Good Friday liturgy is always deeply moving for me. We’re...

Fr. Satish Joseph Memory is everything. Amnesia is like a death. This Tuesday, I lost my dear uncle, my dad’s only surviving brother. My...

Fr. Satish Joseph Think about this for a minute. An entire people around the globe sets aside 40 days each year to live differently than...

There has been something inexplicable going on somewhere deep within me this Advent. I am finding it difficult to put it into words, but...

I hadn’t seen him in few months. Jerusalem, though, was abuzz with news about Jesus. Caiaphas, the high priest and the other religious...

Fr. Satish Joseph Super Bowl LVI is over, leaving some ecstatic and others crushed. Soon it will be time for March Madness – a thrilling...

I have never thought of myself as a hero... anyone's hero. I am keenly and painfully aware that I am an idealist. I have very high...

It was the summer of 1914. The Central Powers and the Allies had gone to war – the war we now know as the I World War. Both sides had...

It is intriguing for many people that each Advent (on which we begin a new liturgical year), the scripture readings for Mass almost...

A question has always plagued my mind. If the incarnation of Jesus, his life, his death and resurrection was indeed meant to be the...

When I prepared my Holy Thursday homily last year, the pandemic was raging. Public liturgies were suspended, everybody participated...

We have been through a lot in the last one year. As the human race, as a global community, as the people of God, we have been ground in...