Fr. Roger J. Landry Convent of the Missionaries of Charity, Bronx, NY Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C September 25, 2022 Amos 6:1,4-7, Ps 146, 1 Tim 6:11-16, Lk 16:19-31 To listen to a recording of today’s homily, please...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Christmas Midnight Mass 2010 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Christmas 2010 Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:18-25 Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Tit 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Tit3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 24, 2010 There is something beautifully symbolic about the tradition of Midnight Mass. It shows that Christians are so eager for Christmas to begin that they want to start celebrating on the first...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A December 19, 2010 Is 7:10-14; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 The following text guided today’s homily: PREPARING TO GREET THE LORD BY NAME Shift of Advent season...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 17, 2010 The Advent season focuses our attention on the first, second and daily comings of the Lord Jesus as Savior of the world. At Christmas we turn our attention to the Babe wrapped in swaddling...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday of Advent, Year A December 12, 2010 Is 35:1-6,10; James 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11 The following text guided today’s homily: HERALDS OF THE GOOD NEWS, PRECURSORS OF THE LORD...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 10, 2010 Among the many means bishops have to form their people, one of the greatest teaching tools is the pastoral letter, in which the leader of a local church focuses the attention of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Francis Xavier Parish Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady December 8, 2010 Gen 3:9-15, 20; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 The following text guided today’s homily: FIAT On this great feast day, we celebrate...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday of Advent, Year A December 5, 2010 Is 11:1-10; Rom 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 The following text guided today’s homily: 1) On the second Sunday of Advent each year, the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial December 3, 2010 On November 16, at the U.S. Bishops’ Conference’s annual meeting, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago gave his final address as president Conference. In it he looked back over his three-year...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA First Sunday of Advent, Year A November 28, 2010 Is 2:1-5; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 The following text guided today’s homily: We begin today, on this first Sunday of Advent, a new...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 26, 2010 Last weekend, headlines focused on how Pope Benedict was apparently changing the Church’s teachings about the immorality of the use of condoms. The comments, excerpted from a book length...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Christ the King, Year C November 21, 2010 2 Sam 5:1-13; Col 1:12-20; Lk 23:35-43 The following text guided today’s homily: There’s an aphorism, “be careful what you ask for.” That...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 19, 2010 Last month we discussed the embarrassing results of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which revealed that atheists and agnostics had a much...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Thirty-Third Sunday in OT, Year C November 14, 2010 Mal 3:19-20; 2 Thes 3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19 The following text guided today’s homily: Today’s readings focus on the end times, the day...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 12, 2010 Halloween proved to be particularly ghastly for Syrian Catholics in Baghdad as they went to Church for the Sunday afternoon Mass. During the Eucharistic Celebration at Our Lady of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-Second Sunday in OT, Year C November 7, 2010 2 Macc 7:1-2,9-14; 2 Thes 2:16-3:5; Lk 20:27-38 The following text guided today’s homily: I was re-reading recently Crossing the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial November 5, 2010 On Sunday, as we were being bombarded with robo-calls, advertisements, television news segments and special programs focused on Tuesday’s elections, a significant commemoration quietly took...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA All Saints Day 2010 Rev 7:2-4,9-14; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 The following text guided today’s homily: Today we celebrate all the saints, all those who have victoriously crossed the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Thirty-First Sunday in OT, Year C October 31, 2010 Wis 11:22-12:2; 2 Thes 1:11-2:2; Lk 19:1-10 The following text guided today’s homily: Last week Jesus presented us the parable...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 29, 2010 Several state bishops conferences, including the four Massachusetts bishop who comprise the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, have published letters or guides to the Catholic faithful about...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford Thirtieth Sunday in OT, Year C October 24, 2010 Sir 35:12-14,16-18; 2 Tim 4:6-8,16-18; Lk 18:9-14 The following text guided today’s homily: A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that there...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 22, 2010 The October 13 rescue of the 33 miners trapped for 69 days in a subterranean dungeon of the San Jose mine in Atacama was one of the most moving, exciting and literally uplifting moments the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Ninth Sunday in OT, Year C October 17, 2010 Ex 17:8-13; 2 Tim 3:14-4:2; Lk 18:1-8 The following text guided today’s homily: In today’s readings, the Lord stresses our need for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 15, 2010 In 1949, an enormous controversy was ignited when the Nobel Foundation awarded its Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Dr. Antonio Egas Moniz for developing the technique of prefrontal...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 8, 2010 The September 28 publication of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life lent itself to various surprising titles, many of which focused on how atheists...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Seventh Sunday in OT, Year C October 3, 2010 Hab 1:2-3;2:2-4; 2 Tim 1:6-8,13-14; Lk 17:5-10 The following text guided today’s homily: In the Gospel today, the apostles did not...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial October 1, 2010 Last week we examined how Pope Benedict, in his visit to Great Britain, got the “whole country to sit up and think,” to use the appreciative words of Prime Minister David Cameron. He reminded...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Sixth Sunday in OT, Year C September 26, 2010 Amos 6:1, 4-7; 1 Tim 6:11-16; Lk 16:19-31 The following text guided today’s homily: Unforgettable Gospel. Who among us is not moved...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 24, 2010 At the end of Pope Benedict’s highly successful four-day apostolic journey and state visit to Great Britain, British Prime Minister David Cameron, on behalf of all British citizens...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Fifth Sunday in OT, Year C September 19, 2010 Amos 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 The following text guided today’s homily: This Sunday’s Gospel contains what is probably the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 17, 2010 Around the anniversary of September 11, the subject of Islam in America was very much in the news. There has been the on-going controversy surrounding the planned construction of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Fourth Sunday in OT, Year C September 12, 2010 Ex 32:7-11,13-14; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 The following text guided today’s homily: St. Paul tells us in today’s second...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 10, 2010 What ought to be the response of Catholic believers to the rise of militant secularism in the West that is seeking to exile Christian faith from relevance, cultural history, and the public...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Twenty-Third Sunday in OT, Year C September 5, 2010 Wis 9:13-18; Philemon 9-10,12-17; Lk 14:25-33 The following text guided today’s homily: It’s tempting for us to try to smooth over...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial September 3, 2010 Over the past several weeks, we have received a half-dozen phone calls, emails and letters about the paid advertisement that we have been running by the Love and Mercy Publications, found...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 27, 2010 There’s a common phenomenon that occurs when a movie is made based on a best-selling book. Those who have never read the book go to the movie and often appreciate the story on its own merits...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 20, 2010 During the summer months, as there has been much higher volume on local roads as people head to cookouts, travel to Cape Cod, drive to the many local beaches, go to summer camps, sporting...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Solemnity of the Assumption, Year C August 15, 2010 Rev 11:19,12:1-6,10; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 The following text guided today’s homily: On this very rich feast of the Assumption...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 13, 2010 If pictures are said to be worth a thousand words, political cartoons are often far more visually voluble. In the immediate aftermath of Federal District Judge Vaughan R. Walker’s outrageous...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Nineteenth Sunday in OT, Year C August 8, 2010 Wis 18:6-9; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 12:32-48 The following text guided today’s homily: Once in St. Luke’s Gospel, Jesus asked aloud the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial August 6, 2010 On July 15, the Vatican released updated norms to handle what canon law calls “graviora delicta” or the “more serious crimes.” The publication of these new norms was occasioned above all...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 6, 2010 In this mini-series on the truly Catholic response to the scandals, we have looked at the example of saints, for every crisis in the Church is a crisis of saints and the holy ones...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Eighteenth Sunday in OT, Year C August 1, 2010 Eccl 1:2;2:21-23; Col 3:1-5,9-11; Lk 12:13-21 The following text guided today’s homily: Today in the Gospel, Jesus gets right to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 16, 2010 Ten days ago the Church celebrated the feast of St. Maria Goretti, whose Christian response to suffering sexual abuse as a minor is a light not only for those who have endured the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 16, 2010 On June 28, at the Roman basilica built over the human remains of the great apostle St. Paul, Pope Benedict announced that he was founding a new Vatican dicastery, which will be called the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Fifteenth Sunday in OT, Year C July 11, 2010 Dt 30:10-14; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 The following text guided today’s homily: GO AND DO THE SAME … AND YOU WILL LIVE The lawyer in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 9, 2010 In gambling, the house always wins. That’s why it is particularly worrisome to see those we have elected to guide us wisely behaving like a desperate gambler in the false belief that casino...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 9, 2010 One of the least covered aspects of the clergy sex abuse crisis concerns priests falsely accused. It is hard to put into words what it is like for a man who has dedicated himself to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourteenth Sunday in OT, C July 4, 2010 Is 66:10-14; Gal 6:14-18; Lk 10:1-12,17-20 The following text guided today’s homily: 1) Over the past few weeks, there has been a trilogy among...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 2, 2010 Recently the importance of priestly celibacy in the Church has been questioned from different quarters. Some, influenced by implicit Freudian premises, have suggested that priestly celibacy is a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep July 2, 2010 As the whole Church has been confronted with the evil of the sexual abuse of young people in her midst during the past several decades, one of the most frustrating explanations...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 25, 2010 One of the most pressing problems for our nation to solve is illegal immigration. Recent legislation in Arizona has brought the many social, political and moral issues regarding illegal...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep June 25, 2010 The crises that the Church and the world face are “crises of saints.” This insight of St. Josemaria Escriva, the 35th anniversary of whose birth into eternal life the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 18, 2010 Last month, we noted the irony that Mother’s Day fell on the 50th anniversary of FDA’s approval of something that symbolizes the antithesis of motherhood, the birth control pill. This month, as...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep June 18, 2010 Since last June, to mark the Year for Priests, which took place on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Year for Priests Vocational Reflection June 11, 2010 I have always believed that the seeds of priestly vocations are revealed not just in a general desire to give one’s life in the service of others — the starting...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 11, 2010 Today the Year for Priests comes to a close. In the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict is offering Mass with several thousand concelebrating priests joined by the prayers and gratitude...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 11, 2010 Approaching his death, St. Paul wrote to his spiritual son, St. Timothy,” I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” Those words could easily sum...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Corpus Christi, Year C June 6, 2010 Gen 14:18-20; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Lk 9:11-17 The following text guided today’s homily: Year for Priests is coming to an end on Friday. We’ve been guided...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 4, 2010 On behalf of the U.S. Bishops Conference, three leading prelates —Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Houston, Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center and Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City —...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 4, 2010 “God is always almighty,” the Curé of Ars once told his sister. “He can at all times work miracles and he would work them now as in the days of old were it not that faith is wanting.”...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Trinity Sunday, Year C May 30, 2010 Prov 8:22-31; Rom 5:1-5; Jn 16:12-15 The following text guided today’s homily: Feast of who God is. God is a communion of three persons, Father...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 28, 2010 The mission of Catholic schools emanates from the mission of the Catholic Church, commissioned by Jesus to “teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into the Deep May 28, 2010 In Catholic piety, May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It’s a fitting time, therefore, to see what we can learn from St. John Vianney’s ardent devotion to the Mother of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Pentecost Sunday 2010 May 23, 2010 Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3-7,12-13; Rom 8:8-17; Jn 20:19-23; Jn 14:15-16,23-26 The following text guided today’s homily: Beginning of the Church: When...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 21, 2010 The Solemn Feast of Pentecost, which the Church celebrates on Sunday, is an annual opportunity for authentic ecclesial renewal. This year the need for the Church to beg the Holy Spirit for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 21, 2010 St. John Vianney’s mission as pastor, as he mentioned the day of his arrival to eight year-old Antoine Givre, was to show the people of Ars the way to heaven. The beginning that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 14, 2010 On Sunday our nation celebrated Mother’s Day. It’s highly fitting that we stop, at least one day a year, to express our gratitude to and for our mothers, because so often so many children can...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 14, 2010 One of the most memorable events in St. John Vianney’s life occurred the first day he was on the job as pastor. He was near the completion of the 20 mile journey from Écully to Ars...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor First Communion Supplement Feature Article May 7, 2010 The first time a believer receives the flesh and blood of the eternal Son of God in holy Communion ought to be one of the greatest occasions in that person’s life...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 7, 2010 The May 1 Vatican communiqué in response to the Apostolic Visitation of the Legionaries of Christ was a powerful indication of Pope Benedict’s resolve to clean up what he described in his 2005...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 7, 2010 One of the most humbling events in the life of St. John Vianney occurred in May 1845 when Fr. Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, the famous Dominican whose homilies at Paris’ Notre Dame...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 30, 2010 Last week, we examined the Pope’s meeting with Maltese victims of clergy sexual abuse as well as the comments of retired Vatican Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos about the relationship between...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 30, 2010 One of St. John Vianney’s greatest priestly challenges came in the pulpit. He was not naturally eloquent or comfortable in front of crowds. He had not received much of a theological...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 23, 2010 Concentration on the Church’s response to the evil of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy has continued unabated. In the past week, among other headlines, there has been much attention given...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 23, 2010 Last week we focused on the importance of St. John Vianney’s longevity as pastor in Ars. Even though he was a holy, hardworking, amiable, and supremely self-sacrificing pastor, and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 16, 2010 Today is Pope Benedict’s 83rd birthday. The last few weeks have likely seemed for him as long as years, but some semblance of sanity seems to be returning, at least among those who take an...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 16, 2010 Toward the end of St. John Vianney’s life, as pilgrims flocked to Ars from all over France, they would leave marveling not only about having witnessed “God in a man,” as one...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 9, 2010 Lent continues for the Church. The coverage of the Sacred Triduum from the Vatican focused very little on the events of the Lord’s suffering, death and resurrection, but mainly on what Benedict...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 9, 2010 On Monday of Holy Week, the Gospel at daily Mass focused of Mary of Bethany’s anointing Jesus’ feet with oil made from genuine aromatic nard. Judas Iscariot immediately objected to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 2, 2010 Today the whole Church somberly meditates on the Passion of the Lord Jesus. We focus anew on how the chief priests of the temple and others plotted to get him killed: how they put Jesus on a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 2, 2010 The saints are always given to us as models of the Christian life. St. John Vianney is given not merely to priests as a patron and exemplar but to all the faithful as an icon of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 26, 2010 Pope Benedict’s March 19 pastoral letter to the Church of Ireland was an unprecedentedly candid and direct condemnation of the double-evil of the clerical sexual abuse of minors and of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 26, 2010 On Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the whole Church will contemplate in unison the Passion of the Lord Jesus. It is a day on which we seek to grasp the greatest of all paradoxes: how a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 19, 2010 On Monday, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, published a lengthy statement — entitled “The Cost is Too High; The Loss is Too...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 19, 2010 Last week we saw the heroic charity of St. John Vianney, who sought to treat others with the same limitless love with which Christ loves. He was never content to give merely...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 12, 2010 As President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress continue to approach the artificial deadline of March 18 to have the House of Representatives pass the Senate version of the Health...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 12, 2010 Because love is the point of human life and the means of holiness, it’s not at all surprising that St. John Vianney excelled in Christ-like charity. The Curé of Ars’ example is a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 5, 2010 Fifty years ago this September, while campaigning for the presidency, John F. Kennedy went to Houston to try to convince the Protestant Ministers of the Great Houston Ministerial Association...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 5, 2010 “I’m a liar. Do you believe me?” That mind-twisting statement, said to me humorously by a high school teacher, is germane to whether we can consider credible anything the devil says...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 26, 2010 The richness, depth and clarity of the homilies and catecheses Pope Benedict has given during his first five years as the successor of St. Peter have provoked several experts in Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 26, 2010 Last we described the various vexations by which the devil for over 35 years harassed the patron saint of priests at night as he was trying to get a couple of hours of rest...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 19, 2010 The Catholic Church as a whole has its work cut out to respond adequately to the secularizing push of American culture. In Catholic homes, parishes, schools, religious education programs...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 19, 2010 “The first time the devil came to torment me,” St. John Vianney recounted to catechism students many years later, “was one night at 9 pm, just as I was about to go to bed. Three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 12, 2010 Ever since the Bush Administration and a cooperative Congress increased funding for abstinence-only education programs, there has been a concerted effort to try to say that such instruction...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 12, 2010 Among those who, prior to this Year for Priests, had heard about the Curé of Ars but did not know much about him, most likely they had heard of two facts: that he was an heroic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 5, 2010 Last year, for his annual message for World Communications Day, Pope Benedict made a powerful appeal to young Catholics to become the apostles of the new communications frontier produced by...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 5, 2010 Last week, as the Church in the United States was preparing for Catholic Schools Week, we focused on all the sacrifices St. John Vianney made and work he did in Ars to found a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
February 1, 2010
1Sam 15:13-14 30; 16:5-13, Ps 3:2-7, Mk 5:1-20
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 31, 2010
Jer 1:4-5 17-19, Ps 71:1-6 15-17, 1Cor 12:31–13:13, Lk 4:21-30
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 29, 2010 Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley in the special election for U.S. Senate has not only massive national ramifications but perhaps even more pronounced statewide implications. January...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 29, 2010 Perhaps as a result of his many hardships due to the inadequate education he received as a young boy, St. John Vianney was always a great apostle of the importance of Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
January 29, 2010
2Sam 11:1-4a 5-10a 13-17, Ps 51:3-7 10-11, Mk 4:26-34
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
January 28, 2010
2Saml 7:18-19 24-29, Ps 132:1-5 11-14, Mk 4:21-25
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 27, 2010
2Sam 7:4-17, Ps 89:4-5 27-30, Mk 4:1-20
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops
January 26, 2010
PS 96:1-3 7-8 10, 2Tim 1:1-8, Lk 10:1-9
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, apostle
January 25, 2010
Ps 117:1-2, Mk 16:15-18
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 24, 2010
Neh 8:2-4a 5-6 8-10, Ps 19:8-10 15, 1Cor 12:12-30, Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 23, 2010
2Sam 1:1-4 11-12 19 23-27, Ps 80:2-3 5-7, Mk 3:20-21
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 22, 2010 We have all been watching with tear-filled eyes and pierced hearts the scenes of devastation coming from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We’re staggered by the estimated death toll of 200,000. Our...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 22, 2010 In the past two weeks, we’ve focused on two of the great challenges St. John Vianney faced in his priestly life. The first came from various lay people in Ars who disparaged...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 21, 2010
1Sam 18:6-9; 19:1-7, Ps 56:2-3 9-14, Mk 3:7-12
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 20, 2010
1Sam 17:32-33 37 40-51, Ps 144:1-2 9-10, Mk 3:1-6
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 19, 2010
1Sam 16:1-13, Ps 89:20-22 27-28, Mk 2:23-28
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 18, 2010
1Sam 15:16-23, Ps 50:8-9 16-17 21 23, Mk 2:18-22
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 17, 2010
Is 62:1-5, Ps 96:1-3 7-10, 1Cor 12:4-11, Jn 2:1-11
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 16, 2010
1Sam 9:1-4 17-19; 10:1, Ps 21:2-7, Mk 2:13-17
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 15, 2010 When civil governments declare a special year — like last year’s celebrations of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln — it generally remains on the periphery of most people’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 15, 2010 When I was a seminarian, a priest I knew was taking me out to dinner. On the way to the restaurant, we passed a church whose territory bordered the parish where he was pastor...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 15, 2010
1Sam 8:4-7 10-22, Ps 89:16-19, Mk 2:1-12
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 14, 2010
1Sam 4:1-11, Ps 44:10-11 14-15 25-26, Mk 1:40-45
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 12, 2010
1Sam 1:9-20, 1Sam 2:1 4-8, Mk 1:21-28
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the First week in Ordinary Time (C, II)
January 11, 2010
1Sam 1:1-8, Ps 116:12-19, Mk 1:14-20
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
January 10, 2010
Is 42:1-4 6-7, Ps 29:1-4 3 9-10, Acts 10:34-38, Lk 3:15-16 21-22
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday after the Epiphany of the Lord
January 9, 2010
1Jn 5:14-21, Ps 149:1-6a 9, Jn 3:22-30
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 8, 2010 On December 9, in the days of preparation for Christmas, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published the results of a survey that suggested that theological confusion may pose a larger...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 8, 2010 One of the most difficult things for any of us to deal with is criticism. It’s hard enough when we’re criticized justly and constructively. When the criticism is unmerited, off...