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 […]
Greetings in Christ, all! This weekend the noon Mass is for my 25th anniversary of ordination…can you believe it? I’m so grateful to Jesus that I get to be here and St. Mark. I love this assignment and thank Jesus every day for you. I have a write-up in a program for that Mass that will be available […]
Greetings in Christ, all! Last Saturday we joyfully celebrated the arrival and installation of our new baptismal font by both blessing the font and celebrating baptism of four children. The wait has been long, but we are pleased and blessed by what we now have. My homily last weekend reviewed the design of our church […]
Greetings in Christ, all! Sunday (and Saturday night), we celebrate the Ascension of Our Lord. We see the basic pattern of God’s saving work in the order of the Church calendar. The beginning of the Church year is December, when we celebrate Jesus being born. In His Person, He combined the divine and human nature. In this, He […]
Greetings in Christ, all! First Communion was such a blessing last weekend; praise God! I am so very touched by the children who received our Lord for the first time in our community. May Jesus bless their beautiful hearts to receive him their whole lives and to respond to that reception with love and devotion. […]
Greetings in Christ, all! This weekend, we are blessed beyond measure to celebrate with many of our young ones as they receive their First Communion. Please rejoice with them as they receive the Gift of God that you and I may accidentally become too accustomed to. Pray that they and their parents experience the joy […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I feel so blessed at our worship…I look out and see what appears to be many of you inviting people to Church. We see more new faces all the time and I’m so blessed. The more we understand how radically blessed we are to pray this way, the more we will […]
Greetings in Christ! The past two weekends I have made announcements about the Garage Sale. We are restarting this event that began with our beloved Senior group and continues to be a wonderful opportunity for us to work together for our parish and community. I am asking each of you to please help our efforts […]
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion On this day, the Church celebrates Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem to accomplish his paschal mystery. Following the instructions of the Church and the tradition of our Faith, we will celebrate a procession at each of our Palm Sunday Masses. We will gather just outside the church at the Saginaw […]