Greetings in Christ, all! I’m very excited to let you know that in two weeks, we’ll be celebrating The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord. Traditionally, we call this celebration “Candlemas”. We usually don’t get to do this one on a Sunday, so I’m geeked and hope you are too. Here’s some info on it: […]
Greetings in Christ, all, and Happy New Year! This week, I will leave for my annual trip with The Good News Cruise. For the past four years, I’veparticipated in this retreat every year, serving as emcee, giving talks, praying mass and hearing confessions. It’s exhausting, but a great experience as I’ll be eating at a buffet every […]
Greetings in Christ, all! This weekend is the Feast of the Holy Family. This is our patronal feast and is a big deal for us. Our community is named after this wonder of God’s Love: that He chose to be born into a family. How blessed are we? As we celebrate this weekend, let’s recommit ourselves to Our Four […]
Greetings in Christ! This bulletin will serve two purposes: our bulletin for the 4th Sunday of Advent and for Christmas Itself. We’re all so terribly busy…it’s heartbreaking, I know. Our technological advances have only served to add to the amount of things people expect of us, instead of freeing us. This season seems to be one of […]
Greetings in Christ! This is the Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete Sunday or “Rejoice Sunday”. This week is all about joy. We light the third candle (the rose-colored one) as a reminder that this week is all about joy in how close we are to celebrating the best thing that ever happened to us: Jesus’ […]
Greetings in Christ! We continue our journey through Advent. This is a good moment to pause and refocus our hearts and minds on the upcoming celebration of His birth and to prepare ourselves for His second coming. This week we celebrate two big occasions all in one. This Thursday, December 12th, is the anniversary of […]
Greetings in Christ! I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving. God is so good. I believe it’s true that few things are more healing, more important and more rare than a thankful spirit. It is so easy to find and complain about what is wrong, it takes a person of character and vision to see […]
Greetings in Christ! I can’t believe I am going to type this, but Advent starts in one week…wow! Advent is the season where we do two things: First, to prepare to celebrate the birth of Our Lord and second to prepare our souls for His Second Coming. It’s a blessed season that often gets lost […]
Greetings in Christ! Big news this week, folks! You may remember that before I arrived here, our parish signed an agreement with the city to do certain things on our campus. One part of the plan we have to do sooner rather than later is build a new building to house our Outreach to the poor and […]
Greetings in Christ! An interesting celebration this week is on the 13th, when we honor St. Frances Cabrini. She really is a remarkable woman who fundamentally changed the way Catholics minister to the sick. She was a remarkable and formidable woman and I can’t say enough about her. A wonderful movie came out this year called “Cabrini” and […]