Greetings in Christ and welcome to the first Sunday in Lent! I was absolutely blown away and touched by the sheer volume of people at the Ash Wednesday Masses…God bless your faithful, beautiful hearts. All during Lent this year, we will be preaching on the themes of Corporal and Spiritual works of Mercy. We started praying […]
Greetings in Christ, all! Holy Cow, Lent is here! Can you believe it? On Ash Wednesday, we will add a Mass. We’ll be praying Mass at: · 6:30 am· 8:00 am· 6:00 pm At 12:15 pm, we will have a service for the distribution of ashes. It’ll look like Mass all the way through until the homily when we will distribute ashes and then prayerfully conclude. […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I want to give you an update on something and I’ll need to lead into it. So, as most of you know, I am hearing impaired. I have really good, cutting-edge hearing aids and it helps a lot. I do okay between those and looking at people’s mouths when they talk. At […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I have lots of joyful news to share with you and it all starts with our organ pipes. The process of moving the pipes will begin very soon. The project will probably take a few months and the greatest volume of time will be spent on them preparing the pipes. Interestingly enough, the […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I’m going to use this article to focus on the Saints and Scholars campaign. At this point, we’ve basically hit our diocesan goal. Thanks to your generous hearts and valiant efforts, we met the diocese’s goal of $2.4 million. Because of this, our teachers and students will benefit for years to come. […]
Greetings in Christ all! This weekend, we begin our Catholic Schools week. As Catholics, we recognize the need for and importance of Our School system. In this day and age, one could argue it’s never been more important that we strive to offer our kids a place where faith in Jesus is the norm and […]
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 […]