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April 13, 2024Stay with it – even when you're bored. If you're still there, it is still pleasing to God. … Your prayer and my prayer do not glorify God the way we think it does. You can't add to God's glory. He already has it. God didn't create us because he was lonesome. He didn't create us because he needed more glory. He can't have more glory than he always has. He never changes. He is infinite - without end. But we glorify Him in our prayer - because his glory shows itself in us.Read More -
March 22, 2024Monsignor Lavalley weaves two great saints - Joseph and Peter - into his meditations on the way of the cross.Read More -
March 11, 2024"Surrender to the love of God. That's the heart of contemplative prayer." In the fifth in Monsignor's continuing talks on silent prayer, he reflects on passages in the Gospel of Mark, where Jesus prays.Read More -
February 19, 2024Prayer is a dialogue between God and a human being. Prayer is not a feeling; it’s opening the heart to God. In this talk, Monsignor Lavalley discusses what Jesus – the ultimate authority – says about prayer in Matthew’s Gospel.Read More
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February 14, 2024In his third talk, Monsignor Lavalley distinguishes between two types of silence. One is just a void. The other is contemplation. It's preparing a place where God is in control. Embrace the silence, he urges, where God is in control.Read More
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February 4, 2024In the second of a series on silent prayer, Monsignor Lavalley addresses our felt need to appear better than we are - even when we're alone with God. "You can't earn God's love," he says. "I'm going to repeat that. You can't earn God's love - because you already have it. The imposter does not need to exist in front of God."Read More
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January 29, 2024Today, there's a hunger for God, and a hunger for prayer. With this talk, Msgr. Lavalley begins a series on contemplative prayer. Practicing contemplative prayer is not for the chosen few, an exclusive club, he says.Read More
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December 21, 2023Monsignor Lavalley reflects on our preparation for the Feast of the NativityRead More -
December 8, 2023Monsignor Lavalley reflects on the primary feast day of Mary, the mother of God.Read More -
December 7, 2023Monsignor Lavalley reflects on the primary feast day of Mary, the mother of God.Read More -
September 2, 2023The church is asking us to reinstate a devotion to our Lord in the blessed sacrament, a Eucharistic revival.Read More -
June 8, 2023Monsignor urges us - as a community - to recover the habit of attending Mass.Read More
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April 3, 2023We are the fragrance of Christ. Whatever we do, we must do it the way Jesus did. We need to do it with love.Read More
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March 27, 2023All 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.Read More
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March 26, 2023Monsignor Lavalley meditates on the Stations of the Cross, as imagined from the vantage of St. PeterRead More
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January 2, 2023"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 LavalleyRead More
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December 21, 2022Monsignor 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.’”Read More
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December 20, 2022Monsignor 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."Read More
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December 20, 2022He 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.”Read More
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December 19, 2022Father Yvon’s remarks on the 4th Sunday of Advent include an examination of conscience, an aid to preparing for Confession, as we journey toward Christmas.Read More
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