Fr. Rick’s Two Minute Homily for Saturday – 12-18-2021

 Saturday of the Third Week in Advent Matthew 1:18-25 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121821.cfm  PRAY FOR ASHLEY “GOD IS WITH US!”  We all have people we pray for every day. The closer we are to the person, the more intense our prayer is. I heard yesterday from a friend that a mommy and daddy are expecting the birth of their […]

12/17/2021 – St. Olympias

Olympias born into a wealthy noble Constantinople family. She was orphaned when a child and was given over to the care of Theodosia by her uncle, the prefect Procopius. She married Nebridius, also a prefect, was widowed soon after, refused several offers of marriage, and had her fortune put in trust until she was thirty […]

12/16/2021 – St. Adelaide

Born c. 931 in Burgandy, St. Adelaide married, at 15 or 16, Lothair of Italy to whom her father had engaged her when she was two. When Lothair died three years later, his successor and usurper Berengar of Ivrea imprisoned Adelaide and attempted to force her to marry his son. Legends tell of Adelaide’s escape […]