Regina Coeli Catholic Church

06/03/2026

06/02/2026

As summer fun begins, here is a coloring page to complete with the special kiddos in your lives of St. Isidore the Farmer! 🔆

05/31/2026

Love is the Key to Everything
“For God so loved the world....”
Love is the key to understanding God. And love is the key to becoming truly who we were created out of love to be. On this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, we speak about the deepest truth of God’s identity: a God who is Love (see 1 Jn 4:8), who, because of His great love for us, brought us to life in Christ (see Eph 2:4-5).
From the beginning, before the foundation of the world, the Father has loved us and chosen us (see Eph 1:4). He loves the world—the whole world, in all its brokenness—and moves toward it in mercy. The origin of our salvation is not human pleading, but divine initiative. Love begins with the Father.
Jesus gave His life for us that we might live (see 1 Jn 4:9-10). Jesus, the Word made flesh, enters our story not with condemnation but with compassion. In Him we see what divine love looks like: it walks with the poor, heals the sick, forgives the sinner, and lays down its life. To believe in Him is to trust that we are loved beyond measure. It is to allow ourselves to be drawn into the relationship He shares with the Father.
The Holy Spirit is love poured into our hearts, the bond between God and us (Rom 5:5). The Spirit is the hidden presence of God who awakens faith, convicts the heart, and dwells in those who believe. The Holy Spirit is the love between the Father and the Son poured out into our hearts, drawing us into their communion.
It is not easy for us to allow ourselves to be loved like this. On this earth you and I know only imperfect love. Indeed, we ourselves can give to others only a love that is broken. Love on this earth is confined and distorted and confused and manipulated. In the name of love people are used and treated as objects. The beauty of love is lost when it is traded for gain, prestige, advancement, and power.
And yet we long to love and to be loved and to give love. We yearn to live in the communion of love we see in the Triune God, in the perfect, eternal, self-giving communion of love that overflows and reaches out to us. Our thirsty souls stretch out to this everlasting well of life-giving water so that we might be the presence of the Kingdom on this earth precisely through the way we love like God.
Draw us, most Holy Trinity, into Your divine communion,
God the Father and Source of Love, we praise you.
God the Son, Love made visible, we praise you.
God the Holy Spirit, Love poured into our hearts, we praise you.
Amen.

By Sr. Kathryn Hermes
Diocesan Publications

05/30/2026

05/26/2026

SAINT PHILIP NERI (1515-1595)
May 26th
In a shop near the Vatican, a group of Americans laughed as the shopkeeper showed off his fluent English and latest souvenir, a key ring whose papal portrait, when pressed, activated a recorded blessing. Through the shop window, two clerics scowled disapproval. The shopkeeper grunted, “They’re a very somber order who’ve left the Church. I recognize them.” “By their long robes?” an American asked. “Many in Rome wear robes,” replied the shopkeeper. “It’s their long faces!” When Philip Neri arrived in sixteenth-century Rome, there was reason to be somber. Swiss Guards had been massacred on Saint Peter’s steps defending the pope. Parts of Europe were abandoning the Church. But Philip resolved to be an “Apostle of Joy,” drawing especially the young to Christ—and frequent confession and Communion—by his sincere interest in their problems, prayerful example, and gentle humor. His “Oratory,” a movement as well as a place, provided recreation and devotion in a joyful atmosphere of companionship, service, and liturgy. Philip Neri challenges each of us to begin improving Church and world by changing ourselves with unfailing joy.
—Peter Scagnelli
Diocesan Publications

05/25/2026

In honor of Memorial Day, the parish office will be closed today. It will reopen tomorrow. Thank you!