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On next Saturday, May 24, 2025, several men from St. Joseph’s Seminary here in Yonkers will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New York.  I ask all of our parishioners to please pray for these young men as they prepare to accept Jesus’ invitation to “come follow Me” as His priests. Also, may we here at Annunciation-Our Lady of Fatima parish pray fervently every day for an increase in vocations to the priesthood.  Our Holy    Father, Pope St. John Paul II, made a special point that the local parish community and in fact each Catholic parish family […]

We are living in a forward-looking time.  Adventure and progress are the themes of the day.  Individuals and groups are breaking out of old forms and moving ahead into what they hope will be a bright new day. Though we are sometimes frightened by this rapid change, we dare not sit in total condemnation of it.  A lot of things needed to be changed for a long time.  But in days such as these, we should also recognize that there is a danger of throwing overboard some valuable cargo that ought to be kept.  So, in the midst of changing […]

A great life doesn’t come easy.  The scriptures say even of Jesus that He “learned obedience from the things He suffered.”  Behind every life is a story of struggle and self-discipline and willingness to try one more time.  Look at George Herman Ruth.  He is a classic example of what I am saying.  Most people know him as the “The Babe,” one of the most notable figures in   American baseball.  Yankee Stadium is sometimes called “the house that Ruth built.”  He is most remembered for hitting 714 career homeruns.  In 1927 he hit 60 in one season.  An interesting side […]

If we were to believe the statistical charts and reports so commonly quoted these days, a single conclusion is inescapable:  we, the disciples of Jesus, are not winning the world, we are losing it!  That is, of course, if we are to believe those statistical charts, because quite frankly, figures can be quoted, twisted, used, or misused, as we have seen in recent months, to prove virtually anything.  It is never easy to know just how reliable or accurate any particular survey is, at least not until we know the background and bias of the agency or individual responsible for […]