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Monsignor urges us - as a community - to recover the habit of attending Mass.

We are the fragrance of Christ. Whatever we do, we must do it the way Jesus did. We need to do it with love.

All of us are sinners. All of us are loved by God. Christ comes to us in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The kiss of Christ is in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Monsignor Lavalley meditates on the Stations of the Cross, as imagined from the vantage of St. Peter

"The Father said, "This is my Son in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him." At the Wedding at Cana, his mother said, "Do as he tells you." Listen to him. Do as he tells you." - Monsignor Lavalley

Monsignor Lavalley wraps up his Advent mission at Holy Name of Jesus parish. Evening 3. He offers thoughts on St. Peter, a broken church, and us. "Are you broken? Are you broken?” he asks. “St. Therese says, ‘That's where the sun comes in. That's where the Son comes in.’”

Monsignor Lavalley continues his Advent retreat. Evening 2. "A college student once asked me, 'Father, if you learned that the Eucharist was just a symbol, would it change your life?' And, I said, 'change my life? It would absolutely devastate me - because I would have to adjust to the fact that God loves me less than I thought."

He is near – An Advent retreat with Monsignor Lavalley at the Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Morrisville (VT). First conference. “We are broken and we are weak. And we are a broken church, and we are weak. We do not save ourselves. Jesus does.”

Today, we celebrate the feast of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. And I want to put the emphasis right here on Jesus himself to explain the Immaculate Conception. Because Jesus was the cause of the Immaculate Conception, the reason for the Immaculate Conception, and the fruit of the Immaculate Conception.

Pray for the grace of humility. Place your hand in God's. Let him lead - and trust him.

Advent is the season of the seed. Not of the harvest. Not of the planting. Not of the harvesting. The season of the seed. Join Mary in the watching and waitng.

Monsignor Lavalley inquires, "How do we look at Purgatory, and what do we really know about it?" "I believe in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting."

No one sees Jesus alone. We all have "branches" - people, places, books, things - that help us see Jesus. Monsignor Lavalley shares some of the branches in his life.

Monsignor Lavalley comments on the readings for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Archangels. "Angels are real. Maybe that's the most important thing to say on this feast. Angels are real, Jesus talks about them, He wouldn't lie." May the angels watch over us, and when we die, may they lead us into paradise.

"I walked by the chapel; it was night and I looked in. And there was one light on over at the side. And Charlie was praying there. ... He was looking at the tabernacle. He looked like a man in love."

"The only way we're going to understand today's Gospel is by seeing Our Lady not just as the Immaculate Conception but as a very human mother because that's what she is."

We do not bring out a crucifix on Good Friday. It's the cross itself. So intimate was our Lord's connection with his cross that we celebrate a feast in honor of an object made of wood.