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March 7, 2019
On Ash Wednesday, each of us had a cross traced on our foreheads as a mark of our repentance. We began anew on the road of conversion, recalling our baptismal promises by once again taking up more fully the penitential practices highlighted in our Gospel on Ash Wednesday, those acts of fasting, almsgiving and more frequent prayer. They will hopefully move us from focusing on ourselves to taking on the poverty of Christ, in imitation of our Beloved.

February 16, 2019  
 It is difficult to find the right and appropriate words to share with you after hearing the news this morning from the Holy See about the removal from the priesthood of our founding bishop, Theodore McCarrick (1981-1986). My first act was to turn to the Lord in prayer, and to hold all of you there, along with all those who are survivors of child sexual abuse or harassed or abused by those in positions of authority over them.