Blog Category: Chaplain’s Blog

Here is a homily that is read each Holy Saturday morning by priests, religious, and those obligated to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. It’s one of my favorites. Enjoy. [From an ancient homily on Holy Saturday(PG 43, 439, 451, 462-463) The Lord descends into hell Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on […]

[So they took Jesus, and, carrying the cross himself, he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.] (Jn. 19:18) Good Friday.  Is today actually “good” if Jesus suffers and dies […]

[Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that His hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved His own in the world and he loved them to the end. The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand Him over. So, during supper, fully aware that […]

[One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.] (Mt. 26:14-16) The price […]

A live-streamed Easter Sunday Mass on April 12 @ 8am from Christ the King will be on our ACS Facebook page.

Father Becker is celebrating the Paschal Triduum with the Marshfield Deanery priests. He will be helping out, but not the main celebrant. (not sure if that matters) These three liturgies can all be watched live as well as recorded after the conclusion of the liturgy on the website of Our Lady of Peace Holy Thursday–April […]

[Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, “Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side. So Simon Peter […]

[Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the […]

[Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man […]

[The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?”] (Jn. 10:31-32) These two verses encapsulate the sad saga of God’s infinite love and mercy meeting the stoney hearts of the very people He […]