Third Sunday of Lent "During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference." POPE FRANCIS FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: I would like to tell you a story today about four [...]
Second Sunday of Lent “Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security, and as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan who bent [...]
First Sunday of Lent And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness... FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: In 1922 Marjorie Williams [...]
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: This is the last Sunday before Lent. The first and second readings have words of encouragement for us. The first reading says, “As the test of what the [...]
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: A man who lived a very immoral life died and found himself standing before the gates of heaven. Saint Peter was already looking up his record in the [...]
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: Fr. John Shea tells a story about a pastoral visit that changed his life. It was a rainy Monday morning and the next thing on his to-do list [...]
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: Two experienced fishermen decided one day to go ice fishing. They walked out on the frozen lake, cut a hole in the ice, put worms on their hooks, [...]
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: Today’s second reading is one of the most beautiful and popular passages of the New Testament. It is Paul’s famous hymn to love from first Corinthians. I can [...]
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: Today’s second reading from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians might be the most radical and challenging passage of the New Testament. It presents to us a fundamentally [...]
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: One of the ways to read today’s gospel of the wedding at Cana is to see it as a model for prayer. We often ask God in prayer [...]
