Father John Gerard Hillier

Article 140 - Catechism of the Catholic Church Series Paragraphs 1877-1889 COVID-19, otherwise known as the coronavirus, has taken our country and the world by surprise, like nothing ever experienced in the life of anyone living on planet earth today! What began as something considered “worse than the flu” became an outright war against an invisible enemy.

Article 138 - Catechism of the Catholic Church Series Paragraphs 1846-1853 A friend of mine recently introduced me to an English word I had never heard before. The 34-letter word, hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianism, refers to the practice of a person who likes to use big words in excess. I couldn’t help but think that people could accuse me of this if I told them often that my first parish assignment as a newly ordained priest was in a town near a lake with a 45-letter name called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.