Comments on: Merry Christmas!

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:37:01 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,
I liked reading this week’s blog! I enjoyed watching the Holy Night video and how it showed the happiness of Jesus’s birth. I hope you had a blessed Christmas!

By: Mikayla

Mikayla — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:23:18 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean

I hope that Father Michael Bercik gets well soon! I loved your blog and the pictures were beautiful! I hope you can come and celebrate a mass with us soon!

Mikayla McGrath
St Paul School
Grade 8

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:19:17 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,
This week’s blog was very interesting! I will keep Father Michael Bercik in my prayers and I hope he feels better soon! Thanks for keeping everyone posted in the Religious world. I cannot wait for next week’s blog!

Nikki
Saint Paul School
Grade 8

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:56:35 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,

I’m a bit late in saying this, but Merry Christmas!

I hope that Father Michael Bercik gets better soon! It was so nice of you to visit him and his family, and to give him a blessing.

The semitarians at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary sang beautifully! It must have been wonderful to visit them!

Thank you for another great blog!

Kate
Saint Paul School
Grade 8

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:56:18 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,

I loved your blog this week! It looks like you had a nice Christmas Eve and I loved the beautiful pictures. I can’t wait to see your next blog!

Caroline
St Paul School
Grade 8

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:07:01 +0000

Dear Cardinal Seàn,
I enjoyed reading this week’s blog very much! From the pictures I saw, Our Lady of the Assumption is very beautiful and was decorated very well! I hope that Father Michael Bercik has a quick recovery. I hope to see you at mass at Saint Paul very soon!

Thank you,

Louise
Saint Paul School
Grade7

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:03:37 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,
Even though there was a snowstorm, it looked as if you had a good turnout for all the events you attended on Christmas Eve, which is always a good sign! That video of O Holy Night is absolutly beautiful!!!!!! What wonderful voices they have!
-Lindsey
Saint Paul School
Grade 8

By: Mariah

Mariah — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:19 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,

Thank you for these pictures and the wonderful blog. I watched the video of the seminarians singing O Holy Night. They did a beautiful job. Listening and watching the video reminded me of the Christmas cheer that filled the air just a short while ago.

Sincerely,
Mariah
St. Paul School
Grade 8

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:06:43 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,

Thank you for the wonderful blog! I hope that Father Michael Bercik gets well. I hope that you are able to celebrate a mass with the St. Paul community.

I hope you had a Merry Christmas!

Thank you,

Gabrielle
St Paul School
Grade 8

By: shannon

shannon — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:52:01 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,

This weeks blog was very interesting. That was so nice that people attended St. Leonard’s in the North End despite the snow. The pictures were great. Your staff who joined you at the Cathedral for Mass, followed by an Advent, pre-Christmas dinner, were really wonderful. Can’t wait for the next blog!

~Shannon
Grade 8
Saint Paul School

By: Kristopher Boushie

Kristopher Boushie — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:40:56 +0000

Dear Cardinal Seán,

Thank you for a wonderful Blog.

By: Paul Haley

Paul Haley — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:43:37 +0000

My dear Cardinal O’Malley, though I am but a poor inconsequential layman, may I suggest to you that this attack on the Holy Father is in many ways a reflection that our society, indeed our Holy Church, has in the last 40 years gone off the tracks and lost the sense of the sacred. Nothing is sacred anymore, not our liturgy, not our Pope, not any of the traditional devotions we had before the radical changes invoked after Vatican II. Has the “let it all hang out” generation, in fact, done exactly what that phrase implies so that attacking the Holy Father is somehow seen by the radical fringe as “Justified”.

When I was a growing up in the Archdiocese of Boston from 1941 to 1962, I remember the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God, the Rosary, said every morning in Catholic grade school, led by nuns in their penitential habits with Archbishop later Cardinal Cushing being heard on the radio and Catholic Mass where the entire congregation was on their knees reverently adoring the sacred mysteries taking place before their very eyes. This was the practice then but what is the practice now? It’s a rhetorical question, my dear Cardinal, but I ask you to solemnly reflect on WHY it is what it is now and what you may do personally to reverse trends towards loss of the sacred. Could it just be that a return to the Traditional Mass and devotions to the Blessed Mother are called for? I think so.

By: Víctor Mariño

Víctor Mariño — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:52:28 +0000

Feliz Navidad, Cardenal Sean!

Tengo un hermano sacerdote desde hace un año en Lynn. Sigo su trabajo pastoral por esta bella página que recomiendo en mi blog católico.

Desde Sevilla (España) deseo que su labor como Pastor siga siendo bendecida por este Dios-con-nosotros que se hace presente gracias a esta Iglesia cercana que usted representa. Que Cristo siga cuidando de su archidiócesis. Cuente con mis oraciones.

Cordialmente. Pax tecum!

Víctor MB

By: Mark from PA

Mark from PA — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:00:55 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean: I hope that you had a blessed and joyful Christmas. I really enjoyed this post and the beautiful pictures. I live in a small town in Northeastern Pennsylavania and am active in my parish. I teach 8th Grade religion at my parish. I am also in the choir. We sang for a 4 PM vigil Mass and also midnight Mass. Today our pastor said that there were 1400 people at the vigil Mass (in the church and overflow in our basement with the Mass televised). We have a wonderful diverse parish, we have a Polish Mass every Sunday and a Spanish Mass on Tuesdays. I attend both of these Masses from time to time. I am proud of my diverse parish, along with our Polish and Latino community. we also have numerous black, gay and Asian parishioners, as well as a lot of Irish and Italians, of course. I think we may be one of the most diverse parishes in the Scrantonn diocese as well as being a welcoming Church.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:02:03 +0000

Dear Cardinal Seán,

I pray that you and all the good people of your diocese have a blessed Christmas season!!

By: Myriam Frias-Dox

Myriam Frias-Dox — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:28:17 +0000

FELICES PASCUAS PADRE SEAN! MIL GRACIAS POR SU “BLOG” Y POR INCLUIR SUS HOMILIAS.
PAZ Y BIEN PARA USTED Y TODOS LOS FIELES DE BOSTON.

By: Rick Voss

Rick Voss — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:31:23 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean: Thank you for showing the mercy of God through your ministry. You have always been a healing presence from those early days at that little office of the Spanish Catholic Center in DC to your plea for compassion and defense of the “seamless garment” of Catholic moral teaching today. You have always been, and continue to be a true inspiration. From your former student. Much love through this season of Christmas. Rick.