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 [...]
AND A VOICE CAME FROM HEAVEN: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: Many times, people seek me out for grief counseling [...]
THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: The most foundational truth of the Christian life can be found in today’s gospel of the Epiphany. But it is a lesson that [...]
A CHILD IS BORN CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK My Dear Parishioners: Today’s gospel is the only place in the New Testament where we see Jesus as a teenager. It should [...]
