Video Transcript My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, For nearly 17 years, I have been blessed to serve the diverse and vibrant communities that make up the Diocese of Phoenix. We have 94 parishes and 23 missions serving more than a million Catholics throughout central and northwest Arizona. Maricopa County is one [...]
Video Transcript My brothers and sisters in Christ, This coming Sunday we will celebrate the great Feast of Pentecost – the Birthday of the Church. With joyful hearts, we will praise the Father for pouring forth the Holy Spirit and uniting us with Jesus, His Beloved Son. What Jesus did and taught [...]
Video Transcript My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In a variety of ways, Jesus constantly fulfills His promise: “Behold, I am with you always.” In the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, above all, He gives us the gift of His own Body and Blood, soul and divinity. In this wondrous mystery of [...]
Video Transcript My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Suspending the public celebration of the Holy Mass was a great sacrifice in the effort to help slow the spread of COVID-19. I am grateful to our pastors, their parish staff and volunteers who kept their churches open and worked hard to support the [...]
Video Transcript My brothers and Sisters in Christ, Christ is risen from the dead! By death He trampled Death; and to those in the tombs He granted life. This prayer of Byzantine Catholics expresses well the reason for our hope. We are able to cope with this pandemic because of the victory [...]
Video Transcript My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On the Road to Emmaus, following the Crucifixion and the discovery of the empty tomb, two of Jesus’ disciples encounter a traveler they don’t recognize. As they walk along, they share with him all that they had experienced in the previous days - all [...]
Video Transcript My Brothers and Sisters: Christ is Risen! He is truly risen! As we approach the Third Sunday of Easter, I know how disconcerting, even disorienting, the past several weeks have been and how painful for us not to be together to celebrate the Eucharist. It feels like an eternity since [...]
Video Transcript Alleluia, Christ has risen! Indeed, He is Risen! My brothers and sisters in Christ: Today we rejoice in the victory of the Risen Lord. He has conquered sin and death; He has given us new life! On Easter morning, nearly 2,000 years ago, the first disciples of Jesus could be [...]
Video Transcript My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Lent 2020 has been one that none of us will forget. Nonetheless, as these forty days of preparation for the Sacred Triduum draw to a close, the Church shall again be celebrating the Passion, death and Resurrection of Christ—His great work of Redemption. For [...]
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