By David Sedeño
The Texas Catholic
While many people were preparing to close out 2015 in their own special way, Dec. 31 found my wife and me traveling to Louisiana for the funeral of a dear friend’s mother.
As we headed east on Interstate...
Sunday, January 3, 20160733It is with a heavy heart that I mark the passing of Msgr. Thomas W. Weinzapfel the longest serving priest of the Diocese of Dallas.
Friday, December 25, 20150673Stop for a moment and reflect on the nativity scene that you have carefully arranged in your home, or the Christmas Pageant that your children were in at the school....
Thursday, December 24, 20150133Stop for a moment and reflect on the Nativity scene that you have carefully arranged in your home, or the Christmas pageant that your children were in at the school....
Sunday, December 20, 20150418When St. Augustine wrote that “whoever sings prays twice,” he was mindful of the essential role music has always played in the life of the church. (The quote is...
Friday, December 18, 20150234As the great feast of Christmas rushes in on us like a tsunami, many people are crying out in despair of ever having enough gifts purchased or of placing adequate...
Thursday, December 17, 20150247
In his sixth homily for the Vigil of Christmas, St. Bernard suggests how we might best prepare for the coming of Christ into our hearts. He contrasts the newness of...
Wednesday, December 9, 20150263“Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy,” the opening words of the Holy Father’s Bull Misericordiae Vultus, establishing the Jubilee Year of Mercy. ”...
Tuesday, December 1, 20150472Pope Francis came as a pilgrim where Jesus had come as a refugee. Joseph and Mary fled to Africa to seek refuge from Herod’s slaughter of the children of Bethlehem....
Wednesday, November 11, 20150444A good while back (about seven years ago), the parish of Holy Cross was debating the format of our proposed new sanctuary. We had a good committee of dedicated and...
