Greetings in Christ! I am overjoyed to share with you a sort of timeline for our Church renovation project. As you may recall, we were given a plan for a $4.8 million renovation in 2017, but realized that we would not able to get that amount. So, we redesigned the plan in order to try […]
Greetings in Christ, all! It is our first Sunday of Lent and I want to do something with you that I do every year at whatever parish I have been serving. Basically, it’s a little bit of what I call “Liturgical House Cleaning.” What is this House Cleaning? A little bit of a guide to […]
Greetings in Christ all! I’ve written this bulletin way ahead of time, in anticipation of being on vacation when this puppy is due. Theoretically, while you are reading this, I am praying, reading or watching Spring Training baseball…these are my favorite things! So, what I want to let you know is that Lent is almost […]
Greetings in Christ, all! After the noon mass today, I’ll be heading off with my family for a week. I’m very much looking forward to a time of prayer, rest, reading and baseball! I’m writing this ahead of time, but wanted to be sure and remind you that Lent is coming! For us Catholics, this […]
Greetings in Christ! I pray that God bless you and yours with His love and light this day. I wanted to focus the bulletin this week on the upcoming Welcome Weekend. While Holy Family is hosting, we are hoping for both of my Parish Families to take part in it. Since I’ve got here, I’ve […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I’m writing to you all this week about National Marriage Week: a great week our Church sets aside to honor and celebrate the Catholic Sacrament of Marriage. We, as Catholics, are the bride of Christ and He is Our Groom; the Sacrament of Marriage is to be a reflection of that […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I’m typing this on Tuesday, the second day of the Winter Apocalypse, apparently…wow! I’ve had some questions and comments about the Mass schedule at our two parish families, as well as some questions pertaining to our schedules as priests. I want to take time to address those to give you all […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m actually pausing in a fairly sizable task to write this article. I’ve got about 2,000 letters to sign tonight and I’m probably 1/8th done. What are all these letters? Year-end letters I am writing to acknowledge your contributions to our parish families…I’m pausing to write this because I am so very […]
Greetings in Christ, all! With this Sunday we enter more fully into what the Church calls “Ordinary Time.” Every year I’ll explain this, just because what the Church means by “Ordinary” is totally different from what we English speakers mean by it. For us, Ordinary refers to “Plain” or some kind of predictability. The Church […]