Archive for March 2025
Responding to Euthanasia
The Rt. Rev. Patrick S. Fodor “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed”(2 Corinthians 4:8-9). Euthanasia is intentionally acting to cause death or refusing to take actions morally required to preserve life in order to remove a…
Read MoreResponding to Public Blasphemy
The Rt. Rev. Patrick S. Fodor [Jesus said:] “Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him theSon of Man also will confess before the angels of God. But he who deniesMe before men will be denied before the angels of God. And anyone whospeaks a word against the Son of Man, it…
Read MoreResponding to “Secularism”
The Rt. Rev. Patrick S. Fodor “The Mighty God, the LORD has spoken…the world is mine, and thefulness thereof” (Psalm 50:12). “For by Him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created…
Read MoreResponding to Denials of Infant Faith
The Rt. Rev. Patrick S. Fodor “At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, ‘Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, ‘Amen, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children,…
Read MoreLenten Pastoral Letter 2025
Lent is a time for renewal, a springtime for the mind and soul. We are pointed by the Church’s long practice laid out by Our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount: prayer and fasting and almsgiving. The real work of digging up the soil of our hearts is really the same work for the…
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