by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Oct 22, 2025 | Homily Blog
A Recovery Story In college seminary, my roommate left the seminary to do alternative service working with at risk kids in the Bronx. A year or so later I went to visit him. Going there was a real eye opener for me. I remember walking down the streets of Harlem alone....
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 28, 2025 | Homily Blog
The Broken Case The emperor in a faraway land had a magnificent vase that was his pride and joy. But one day someone accidently knocked over the vase. It fell to the floor and shattered into a thousand pieces. The fragments of the vase were gathered up and the best...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 28, 2025 | Homily Blog
St. Phoebe We’re in our third year of the diocesan local synod conducted under the leadership of Archbishop Hebda. Not to be confused with that is the Global Synod started at the initiative of Pope Francis and now is being implemented under the leadership of Pope Leo....
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
At a weekend last summer, I talked to you briefly about the Archdiocesan “Lord, renew your church Capital campaign. All 180 parishes in the diocese are part of this. This weekend we’re officially kicking off this campaign. What’s different about this campaign is this....
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Sep 14, 2025 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob In the last few months within a short span of time, on three different occasions we saw innocent people savagely murdered. First at the beginning of the summer there was the murder of Minnesota speaker of the house Melisa Hortman and her husband Mark and their...
