April 28, 2024
Admin2024-04-26T10:15:33+00:00FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Today's gospel is not about plants. It's about people. It is not about vines. It's about life. The image of the vine and the branches which Jesus uses in [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Today's gospel is not about plants. It's about people. It is not about vines. It's about life. The image of the vine and the branches which Jesus uses in [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, A Jewish couple living in Texas decided to participate in a cultural exchange program in which Jews from throughout the world came to visit the United States. So, around [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Back in 2005 there was a movie called Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. It follows these two characters who crash wedding reception to meet women. While [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, In 2000, St. Pope John Paul II canonized St. Faustina, and made the second Sunday of Easter to be celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday. St. Faustina was a Polish [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Easter is a story about dirt and graves and uncertainty. Even Mary Magdalene mistook Jesus for a gardener. Nadia Bolz-Weber, a theologian and author, reminds us that the depictions [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Each year on the Sunday before Easter, Christians around the world celebrate and commemorate what is traditionally called Palm or Passion Sunday, when we recount the events leading up [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Jesus is trying to do a difficult thing in today’s gospel. He is trying to promote a positive dimension to death. Jesus describes his own death as his moment [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Late one afternoon, a teenager sneaks into the back row of church. He takes off his backpack, unplugs his I-pod and rolls his basketball under his seat. He's overwhelmed [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Aristotle has written, "It is easy to become angry. Anyone can do it. But to become angry at the right moment, to the right degree, for the right purpose, [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, A famous musician was debuting a new work which he had just written for the piano. As he struck the last chord, the audience rose to their feet applauding [...]