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FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, We begin Holy Week on a high note, the same high note that Jesus entered into Jerusalem for the final time with the royal welcome. As Jesus approached [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, "If God loves us no matter what, then why should we bother being good?" One of the 3rd graders asked me that once! Let's look at today's Gospel. [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, The story is told of a catechism class studying the Parable the Prodigal Son. After emphasizing the wrong attitude of the older son in the parable, the teacher [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, Each year the first two Sundays of Lent are linked with specific events in the life of Christ: the temptations he endured in the Judean desert and the [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, What are you willing to do for glory? Abraham is commanded to bind his only son, Isaac, and to offer him as a burnt sacrifice to the Lord. [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, In each of the three Synoptic Gospels, after his baptism, Jesus is reported to have spent forty days in the desert, fasting and praying. In Luke and in [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, On Ash Wednesday the Church begins the penitential season of Lent, the forty-days of mortification during which her members are called upon to remember that we must chastise [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, David’s restraint, as recorded in the first reading, is striking. Saul, who is seeking to kill David, falls into his hands, and yet David does not kill him. [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, Last Sunday we heard Jesus’ call Peter to be his disciple. Jesus then travels with Peter and the other disciples. Luke reports miracles of healing (a person with [...]

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners, In today's Gospel, Jesus teaches from Simon's boat. Jesus turns to Simon and instructs him about where to lower the fishing nets. Simon and others have been fishing [...]