Let the Celebration Continue

Let the Celebration Continue

By Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S.   The Christmas season is over. The decorations put away. It’s Ordinary Time once again.   The prophet Isaiah challenges us to continue the celebration, to continue to make some noise. He continues to prophesy about the reign...
The Lord Has Done Great Things for Us!

The Lord Has Done Great Things for Us!

By Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S. Today’s readings call us to rejoice. While we wait for the coming of the Lord, we rejoice that Christ is already in our midst. While we prepare for the celebration of Christmas, we rejoice that our salvation has already come.   The...
Do More than Bury the Gift

Do More than Bury the Gift

By Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S. At a vastly different time and in a very different culture, the teacher who wrote the proverbs describes the perfect wife to young men who are not yet married. He tells them what they ought to value as they seek wives, in that time and...
Do More than Bury the Gift

This Will Be Our Feast Day

By Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S. One day, November 1st will be my feast day, and I expect that it will be your feast day, too. I suspect that there will never be a church named after any one of us. I doubt that there will be any stained glass windows, statues or...
Who, Me?

Who, Me?

By Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S. You are salt of the earth. You are light of the world. I don’t know about you, but I can understand how Jesus could be salt of the earth and light of the world, but the disciples? but me? He must mean someone else! How could those who...
Missionaries of the Precious Blood