You can watch Fr. Ryan Muldoon’s homily from this morning’s Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral here.

Today we celebrate the Franciscan priests and the feast of Padre Pio. People came from far and wide to seek out his counsel. We would be wise to do the same. In light of our Gospel, let’s ask Padre Pio how we might be good soil.

He knew it was through the Mass that Jesus comes to us.