FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: As human beings, we are interesting creatures. Normally, we go about life in a fairly routine way. We do the things that should and must be done, especially [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: One of my goals for sharing my writing is to keep myself accountable. It fills the role of a good priest friend who keeps telling me to stick [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: I can remember telling my grandma that I wished she lived forever. She looked at me and said, “Honey I want to see God and your sister one [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: This Sunday’s Gospel passage tells us of the physical healing of a blind man – the gift of sight. Yet it also sets out for us a journey [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: I’m sure that, like me, many of you were glued to the Olympics over the summer. One of the reasons I enjoyed the Games so much was that [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: A priest was giving a homily on heaven and hell. At one point, he asked the people: “Is there anybody here who wants to go to heaven? Please [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: “There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can, at the same time, speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: Grief comes boxed in many different packages. The death of a loved one, a routine visit to the doctor reveals a fatal disease, the end of a marriage, [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners: There's little doubt about it: life can sometimes be hard. In my own family, my younger sister Michele, died at the age of 11 after a long illness [...]
