Greetings in Christ! A blessed, restful and joy-filled Labor Day weekend to you all! I have a bunch of information for you, so let’s go one step at a time. First of all, it is a recurring theme here that folks get emails or texts from people saying they are me. It usually presents as a […]
Greetings in Christ! I am afraid I have some rather sad news. I am typing this article on Wednesday, August 23rd. I need to tell you that two people visited our Church in the dead of the night and walked all through our buildings and property, committing acts of vandalism and desecration. They do not appear to […]
Greetings in Christ! I want to start off with something important, but for it to make sense, I need to give you some background. By Church law, priests can only offer sacraments if they have what the Church calls “Faculties” from the Bishop. For example, if I want to pray my niece or nephew’s wedding […]
Greetings in Christ! I have a lot of updates for you all and it’s my intent to use the bulletin to catch you up on these things. Please share this information with folks that maybe couldn’t get to Mass if you would. The first thing is I’d like to talk about our property a bit, as […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m writing to you this week with one reminder and three big updates. First, next weekend I will be away for a scheduled retreat and we have not been able to schedule priests to cover all our Masses. What does this mean? Unfortunately, we will again need to have one of our scheduled […]
Greetings in Christ, all! Boy, I jumped right back into it here…lots of funerals, lots of meetings, all of it. I am very grateful for the break and realize I need to be more faithful to vacations/times away. I’m working on it. There are a lot of things going on here in our parish and I’m very […]
Greetings in Christ! If I do the math right (always an iffy proposition) I am on my yearly retreat/vacation. A crazy thing happened that led to a great blessing…shortly before the retreat started, the house we were using had to be canceled because construction went way over. It meant that we had to find a […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m typing this one early, so there really won’t be any current events, sorry about that! After my last Mass on Sunday, I will be going away for my yearly retreat/vacation. One of my cousins has a house on Lake Michigan and I’m going to stay there. My buddy Geoff will be there as […]
Greetings in Christ, all! This week our country celebrates the 4th of July holiday. It’s a great time for us to remember how blessed we are to live in relative freedom. We are free to worship, free to pray, free to let our faith challenge us to care for the poor and vulnerable…that makes us blessed. I […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I wanted to take a moment and thank you all for the ridiculously wonderful outpouring of love and support you offered me on my anniversary of ordination. It meant the world to me. My family now has a deeper sense of the love I know here at Holy Family and St. Mark and […]