Jan 15, 2020 | Bishop Lucia
I am sitting at my desk on a snowy Wednesday after the Epiphany and have decided I better get next week’s Catholic Sun column done since I am on retreat next week. The snow has got me back in the Christmas spirit since the Christmas season doesn’t end...
Jan 8, 2020 | Bishop Lucia
The brightness of my holiday celebrations was overshadowed by the sad news of the attacks at a Hanukkah celebration near New York City and at a church service in Texas, along with the ongoing unease in U.S. and Iran relations. These situations are beyond our immediate...
Dec 18, 2019 | Bishop Lucia
Here we are — eight shopping days to Christmas — or as noted in the Church’s liturgical calendar, the beginning of the Late Advent Weekdays which are meant to prepare us more directly for the celebration of the Lord’s birth. I don’t know...
Dec 11, 2019 | Bishop Lucia
As I look out my office window, the snow is coming down quite steadily on this first Monday of December. This morning as I was returning from a workout, I came upon a car stuck and spinning its wheels on Montgomery Street. It was hard to get traction but another...
Dec 4, 2019 | Bishop Lucia
I have just returned from baking pies with the students at Blessed Sacrament School here in Syracuse. [See page 7 of this issue for more on this annual service event.] I was so impressed by the diligence and care with which the students not only made pies, but also...
Nov 21, 2019 | Bishop Lucia
I am back at my desk after a week away in Rome. It was a good trip and I will share more about the meeting the bishops of New York had with Pope Francis as we enter into the holy season of Advent. This week I want to focus on the coming national feast of Thanksgiving...
