from New Guinea, Phillipines, Denmark, Sweden, Malta, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Ireland, Thailand, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa, USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom
"I've been using Fr Mark Link, S.J., & Fr James McKarns, but I think you've got them beat!" --Deacon Gordon Kenny, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Thank you very much for your website. I am very happy for having you in
cyberspace!!! I will share this site with my friends. Your notes in the liturgy are helpful to us. I am in the 'Lahar country' called Pampanga. We
experienced a mudflow in 1995. Our place is now under 20 feet of
sand.
--Gerry E. Macapinlac, Philippines
Dear Father,
What an excellent work are you offering to the whole world! In the
middle of all the confusion you have a simple answer: this is the faith
that saves us. My congratulations and thanks.
--Father Francisco Blazek, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dear Fr Cusick,
We recently discovered your page. Some of the young priests have been
delighted to have access to your thoughts on the Sunday readings as they
prepare their sermons. Fr Alphonse Dende, who is saying Mass this morning at a plantation not
far from Vunapope, is normally based in Aona, some two days walk
into the hills above Pomio, and enjoys having access to your page on
the days he is here in the diocesan chancery. Thank you.
--Lawrence Stephens, Archdiocese of Rabaul, Island of New Britain, Papua, New Guinea
Father Cusick,
I visit your page almost once a week, and I admire your efforts to take The Word to others. Your texts are very useful, and I use them to make some reflections in the weekly "Prayer and Reflection Meeting" with a group of young people I'm coordinating in our parish. God bless you.
--Gilberto Ledgard, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
I am from Denmark and every so often visit. I have made a link to your pages.
A profund thanks to you and to our dear Savior.
--Bonnie Bondolma
Fr. Cusick: I wanted to take a moment to thank you for providing the
MCITL web site. It readily provides me a wealth of information that
would take hours to find elsewhere. May God bless you.
--Fr. William E.Sanderson, Pastor, Holy Trinity Church, Hartington, Nebraska, USA
Dear Father Cusick, My name is Anders Jonsson and I am a convert to the
Catholic Church from a Protestant church here in Sweden. Thanks for your
work for the Catholic faith. I live in a small town named Hudiksvall and
not far from here in a little village named Sörforsa we have a convent with
Missionary of Charity contemplative sisters. May God bless you and your
work for the Church.
--Anders Jonsson
Hi Father,
Just want to let you know that this web site is powerful.
It is definitely a big help in focusing my life on the Lord!!
--CPT Dave Ratte, USMC, North Carolina, USA
I and all my family were received into the church at Easter. I want to tell
you that it is really great to be able to get on-line and get such a blessing
from just reading your web-site.
It is not always possible to take the Eucharist everyday for us as we both
work and the kids are young but we try as often as possible.
I come from a free church background and so all of the sacraments are new to
me and I am constantly amazed at the new things I learn about God everytime I
participate in them.
I hope to visit you regularly. God bless you in your witness for Him.
--Marcus Ineson, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
I thoroughly enjoyed your page and the great information it
provides. It is a great service to the web!
Sincerely,
--Terry Mac Lean, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dear Father Cusick,
I'm in charge of doing the church bulletin for Nativity Church and the two
mission churches that are in this area. The bulletin services all three
churches. We are located in Campti, Louisiana which is about an hour from
Shreveport. The mission churches are in Creston and Trichell. I just wanted
you to know that I include your sermon as part of the bulletin every week.
You are a gifted writer and I was delighted to find you on the web. You are
really an answer to prayer. Thank you for this service.
Sincerely,
--Janet Ernst
Father Cusick,
As I wrote before, thank you for the ministry of your web site. To paraphrase
President John Kennedy, in whatever men undertake, the Body of Christ must fully
share -- especially in so potentially powerful an area as the internet.
Between MCITL and the "Catechism of the Catholic Church", which I'm continuing to
study, my viewpoint is broadening in, shall we say, unexpected ways. As I believe I've
mentioned, I'm not a Catholic -- actually, I was born and raised in a Jewish family, and
became a Christian some eleven years ago -- but just this morning, I found myself in
the utterly unexpected position of defending (conceptually, at least) the magisterium of
the Church...to a Catholic co-worker! I've always suspected that the Lord has a sense
of humor....
Again, my thanks and best wishes,
--Peter Shaw
Greetings,
I really found your sermons very challenging and interesting.
Much love and prayers,
--The Revd. Martin Luther King Louw, South Africa
Thank you for the effort you put into these homilies. I find them very
helpful and inspiring each week. I don't know how long you have been
doing this as I just found this site about 2 weeks ago while searching
for homily ideas. May God bless you and reward you for your good works.
Sincerely in Christ,
--Deacon Ray Jilek, Church of St. Wenceslaus, Diocese of Bismarck
Dear Father Cusick,
A note to thank you. I have always wanted and searched for any homepage
dedicated to the word of the Lord. I am a young Catholic and an IT
professional and spend most of my time with computers, therefore I'm
happy to have found your homepage. Now I can access the word of the
Lord via internet.
Thanks and may the Lord bless you, Father.
--Patrick Thong, Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia
I took note of your new URL and shall make regular use of it.
There are 2 more "white people" in our parish now (1x Irish &
1x USA) so I give a copy of your sermon since they cannot understand
the Thai sermon yet. We have in Father Thongchai a good preacher though.
On Sunday 22nd I shall go with Father Thongchai to the far out
mountain village of Mae Aeb for the dedication of their brand new chapel.
People in Mae Aeb are Chinese and Moosur tribe. Maybe you know of the
so-called hill tribes in the North of Thailand, Burma, Laos and
in the Southern provinces of China. They are Lahu, Moosur, Akha, Mhon, etc.
We go there once a month. Many baptized and catechumens here. From there
we go to Pa-ler-Luang village one hour farther up, also monthly business.
People here are Akha tribe. Many are baptized and all the rest are
catechumens owing to the great faith of Mr. Ado - one of them - who is
the catechist. We instruct him and he passes that on.
We need him also for simultaneous translation. English is useless here.
Akha have their own language and only a few know Thai.
We go there for Holy Mass and blessing of the ancestor's graves.
This is always done after Holy Mass and on the 30 minute walk to the
bamboo grove where they are buried we say the rosary.
Yours in our Lord Jesus,
--Hans L. Doets, Thailand
Just found your URL. Wonderful.
I am a pastor and superintendent of a Catholic parish and school in
Falls City, Nebraska. Well done. I will be a frequent visitor. Thank
you. Oremus pro invicem.
--Rev. Robert A. Roh, '66
Dear Father,
I visited your site today for the first time and just thought I would let you know
how wonderful it is to have access to such a resource. I think you are doing a very special thing by offering your homilies on the internet
...you have touched my life in a special way today, as I am sure you have many others. I am very happy to have discovered a way of remaining in touch with
Catholic theological thought (in English!) while I am so deeply involved with the life and events of a non-Christian country.
I look forward to visiting this sight again! Thank you!
--Lisa Hodgkinson, Japan
Dear Father Cusick,
My family and I are newcomers to the internet. I very much appreciate your weekly
"homilies", and in particular, the present one around the Holy Family. I
feel as if it was written just for me to read....I'm kind of "stuck" at home
just now recovering from a Caesarean operation for the birth of our 5th baby
(a beautiful boy ...our first.) Despite being over the moon about our new
arrival, I have really missed the services at church over Christmas. So it
is wonderful to have a topical and suitable reflection there, and to be able
to go to it when the time is right (and energy levels!!) So thanks, and I
look forward to many more.
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