Greetings in Christ, all! Lots of good news to share, starting with our home demolitions. Fonson Company, the construction company that did the demolition to the houses on Orchard Street, absolutely went to war for us and it was beautiful. They were extremely generous, donating the work they did. That would be amazing enough, but […]
Hello, beautiful People of God! I can’t believe that I am typing this, but Ash Wednesday is THIS WEEK! Oh my Lord…I’m just blown away by that. The other neat thing is that Ash Wednesday will be the six-month anniversary of the beginning of construction on Holy Family Church. To my Holy Family parishioners, we […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m typing this up on February 12th and, as of typing this, I’m definitely doing better. This virus really knocked me down like nothing I’ve had before. I’m still weak and my doctor expects that I will be for a couple weeks. A lot of you asked about my Dad and I […]
Greetings in Christ, everyone! I am back in Michigan and I have missed you all so very much. I can’t believe how deeply my two parish families have taken root in my heart in such a short time. I am grateful to God for you all. The cruise could not have gone better. Over 500 […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m writing this one a couple weeks ahead, as I just walked out of a finance council meeting and have some info to share. Beyond that, I will be away when this will be due: I’ll be on the Good News Cruise Couples Retreat! So, I just wanted to take a moment […]
Greetings in Christ! As you read this, I will be on the Catholic Couples Cruise with my Dad. Throughout the week on the cruise, I will be giving talks, introducing events and speakers, praying Mass, hearing confessions and getting some rest and relaxation in between it all. They’ve told me they want me to do […]
Greetings in Christ, all! Things are about to get weird – schedule wise – and I wanted to be sure to update you on it all. We’ll start with the dates: • Fr. Peter is going to be on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from January 20th until February 6th. • Fr. David will […]
Greetings in Christ, all! This weekend, as a Church, we celebrate The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. This is generally seen as a bit of a kick off to our Ordinary Time within our Church calendar. Fr. Benedict Baur wrote a neat summation of this feast in his article on The Baptism of […]
Happy and Holy Epiphany to all! This week we are celebrating the Epiphany. Epiphany is a word from Koine Greek which translates “Striking Appearance” or “Manifestation.” A few interesting points about The Feast of the Epiphany: Both Eastern and Western Catholics have celebrated this feast on this day since pretty early on: even before we […]