PERSPECTIVES
A call to penance, communion & change
“The earth was moved and trembled when your way lead through the sea, your path through the mighty waters, and no one saw your footprints.” (Psalm 77:19-20).
Bassi keeps on smiling in retirement
While Mrs. Bassi has technically retired from three jobs, the parishioner at St. Paul’s parish in Schenectady has found that each retirement wasn’t the closing of a book — as it often can appear — but the beginning of her next chapter in life.
Sunday Masses, heavy snow and “something missing”
Surely Mass is an obligation but, for most, it is more, and something isn’t quite right without it. No Jesus. No community. No light from the preached Word. No Eucharist.
‘THANK YOU’
Catholic school makes dream a reality for students, parents
The dream of having a child who wakes up on a Monday morning excited to go to school, isn’t a dream at all. It’s a reality for us at our Catholic school.
CHRISTMAS FRENZY
Finding a new perspective during these final days of Advent
There are many different Advents. Ad-venting is a challenge, if we are locked into one frame of reference.
ADVENT REFLECTION
Sacred signs at the kitchen table
Lighting the Advent wreath each night for prayers before dinner has long been my family’s tradition. The flickering candlelight growing brighter with each passing week mirrors the interplay of darkness and light we see outside our kitchen window at this time of year.
PERSPECTIVE
Glad I didn’t win the lottery
I bought a few tickets in the recent big lottery. Before the numbers were pulled, visions of sugarplums danced through my head.
REFLECTION
The challenge of Advent
At no time of the year is Christian faith more under siege by the secular, anti-Christian and consumerist world than in the Advent season. This is the time of year which is make-or-break for the purveyors of want rather than need. The pressure to entice us to its false values …
REFLECTION
‘Welcome, Father; we’ve been waiting for you’
I've always kept in mind a very special memory of a former parishioner that took place on the day I arrived in that parish long ago.
PERSPECTIVE
Ordained at tumultuous time, priest of 50 years reflects
Fifty years ago, my classmates here present and I were all asking the same question amid a world that was in turmoil. Before our ordination to the priesthood in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; right after our ordination, Sen. Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
PERSPECTIVE
The hidden horror of abortion
I went to see the new movie “Gosnell” recently. I asked a few friends if they wanted to join me. All responses were negative, with a few offering that they’d never heard of it and one suggesting that seeing Bradley Cooper in “A Star is Born” would make for a …
PERSPECTIVE
Missionary who is native of Diocese celebrates St. Romero in El Salvador
The canonization of Óscar Arnulfo Romero, martyred archbishop of San Salvador, was a true fiesta in the rural parish of Monte San Juan, El Salvador, where I work as a Maryknoll lay missioner.
PERSPECTIVE
Understanding trauma
I recently attended some training on “trauma-informed care.” It was quite eye-opening.
ALBANY DIOCESE
Local Catholics reflect on attending Encuentro
I was privileged to be part of the five-member delegation from the Diocese of Albany to the National V Encuentro, held Sept. 20-23 in Gaylord, Tx. We joined more than 3,000 Hispanic ministry leaders who participated in the event, representing 159 dioceses and national Catholic organizations and groups.
REFLECTION
A mighty tree
Parishioners and residents of Glens Falls are used to seeing the huge tree next to St. Mary’s rectory on Warren Street as they pass by our parish.
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