Be consoled and strengthened every time you meditate on the Cross.

We celebrate several feasts of the saints which should remind us just what is of the greatest importance for us.

Our two newest priests and all our priests are living proof of His love.  

Our faith and hope remain intact and hopefully we have strengthened them by our prayer, good works and sacrifices

We have every reason to believe and to be hopeful and most especially in the midst of our sufferings, death, worries and uncertainties because of Easter.  

We should examine our consciences in preparation for confession.

In mid-January, my brother bishops and I made our Ad limina Apostolorum pilgrimage to Rome to report to Our Holy Father Francis about our dioceses.

This is not something any of us would want or expect of those in whom such great trust has been placed, but not to be transparent about this mortally sinful activity would be wrong.

Advent and Christmas are the blessed opportunities for us to regain our original child-like innocence received in baptism.

This year the month of November will be a memorable one for our diocese.

Praying the rosary teaches us how to imitate Jesus and foster our lives of virtue and it teaches us that we have no better person to guide us in virtue than Our Blessed Mother.

Autumn has always been my favorite time of the year.

Bishop Zipfel was and is a holy and virtuous man, a good priest and bishop who only wanted to serve you and me and everyone to the best of his ability.

Several feasts and solemnities which our beloved Catholic Church celebrates in June.

The Church wants and urges us to look to Mary, so we can know and understand what it means to know, love and serve God.

Celebrating the Easter season as members of His Body, we come to a better understanding of His sacrifice for us, but also what His sacrifice demands of us.

This holy season reminds us to strengthen the many virtues we live

February offers some beautiful feasts and memorials which the Church celebrates

If we really do want to keep Advent as it is meant to be kept, we certainly can by making good use of all the Church offers.

The saints in heaven and the holy souls in purgatory pray for us here on earth and they are anxious for each of us to join them in eternal happiness.