FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Today's Gospel is strangely disturbing, but it also carries a thread of consolation. This passage from Mark's gospel is the only passage in the gospels where Jesus is said [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, When I was assigned to St. Philip the Apostle back in 2021, I was given not only a wonderful assignment, but a wonderful associate, Fr. Nico Quintos. I had [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Normally we are quite respectful when we speak to God. Controlled and subservient we place our needs before the Lord. "Dear Jesus, help my son be accepted into the [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, In today’s Gospel, Jesus is again speaking in parables. Parables were Jesus’ favorite way of teaching. He used parables, because parables force you to think. You have to pause [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Jesus finds himself amid a violent controversy in today’s gospel. His family, the scribes, and the people of Galilee are trying to decide who he is and what he [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, On this feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord we celebrate the foundational Catholic truth that Christ is present, really present, in the Eucharist. What should we [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, To be a Roman Catholic is to always be "on call." On this feast of the Most Holy Trinity, we celebrate the mystery that God: Father, Son, and Spirit, [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Throughout Christian history mystics and spiritual writers have at times referred to the Holy Spirit as "the Kiss of God." It is a striking image, because it conveys not [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, A wealthy widow who lived in Washington, D.C., died. She left her entire estate to God. Now, this rather strange bequest gave rise to many legal ramifications, because if [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK Dear Parishioners, Jesus gives us a commandment in today's gospel, and it is not an easy one. We are to love one another as He has loved us. Now loving others [...]
