St. Gertrude the Great Lent 2011 Newsletter is available. Read our newsletter for a quick look inside our school, as well as commentary from Bp. Dolan. This month, as we do each Spring, we are asking for alms for our school. Be sure to buy your copy of Fr. Cekada’s book, “Work of Human Hands”. […]

Lent III

This week’s bonus sermon from Ash Wednesday: A Pile of 70 or 80 Calendars Bishop’s Corner March is certainly the month for weather, isn’t it? Heavy humidity and overcast skies bring us unhealthy, unwelcome warmth and rush the flowers out of the earth. Then the wet turns cold to threaten the blossoms with a wintry […]

Lent II

Bishop’s Corner It is a soft St. Patrick’s Day, mild for March, and glowing with the promise of green and growth for Spring as I write this. I hope yours was a pleasant one. The ever so talented children of the school choir surprised me with ancient Irish music for the High Mass today, a […]

Lent I

Bishop’s Corner Our latest of Lents got off to a good rainy start on Wednesday. Rain sometimes symbolizes an abundance of heavenly blessings (on a wedding day, for example) and our Ash Wednesday was full of graces. How many of you made the sacrifice to come through the dark and the rain to receive your […]

Ash Wednesday

Quinquagesima

Bishop’s Corner I was speaking with Fr. Hecquard the other day. He remembered fondly his stay with us last winter, and sends his prayerful greetings along with the report that France is also enjoying an early spring. The French call such mild weather (perfect days, really) “doux;” literally, sweet. And indeed how sweet have been […]

St. Gertrude the Great February 2011 Newsletter is available. Be sure to buy your copy of Fr. Cekada’s book, “Work of Human Hands”. “Work of Human Hands” is also available on Amazon.com.