I bring you Good News of Great Joy: Our 13-year- old Abraham has been miraculously healed! We can all rejoice in Abraham's joy!!! We can all rejoice with Abraham's parents and three sisters! Abraham's parents have asked me to thank all of you for your continuous prayers! We can all be grateful to God for Abraham’s amazing recovery in last two weeks –a true miracle! You will recall that I asked the entire parish to pray for the healing of Abraham on the first day of our 40- hour Adoration, Thursday, September 7. On that very day,...

Padre Pio loved the Eucharist!! Padre Pio spent hours in prayer before Mass and often entered into ecstasy while celebrating the Eucharist—an inspiration for our entire parish as we just entered into the Year of Renewed: Renewed in the Eucharist! Renewed in Christ! Today, I am asking each of you to slowly read and meditate upon Padre Pio’s beautiful and inspirational Prayer After Communion: 1. Stay with me Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget you. You know how easily I abandon You. 2. Stay with me Lord, because I am weak and need your strength.

First, Padre Pio came to us in October 7. Last Saturday was one of the most spiritual and powerful events ever held at OLHOC with the Veneration of Padre Pio's Relics from 8 AM through 7 PM; it was also the Celebration of Our Lady of the Rosary Feast Day. There was a sense of awe. One could feel the presence of one of the most famous and powerful Saints of modern times. There was excitement, over 30...

Last month, I wrote a short column in the bulletin entitled, “A Beautiful Dream”. Many of you gave me very positive feedback and indicated that they also had experienced similar joyful dreams. I asked that they share one of their dreams. So far, only one person has written to me about one of her beautiful dreams. Here it is (with her permission) for your own reflection: “I enjoyed reading about your heavenly dream, and would like to tell you about one of my dreams. My mother died in January of 2004. In December, 2004, I had the following dream:...