Pastor’s Letter 8.14.22

Pastor’s Letter 8.14.22

Dear Friends, Ready or not school starts again this week. Teachers have been roaming around the campus the past week preparing their classrooms and their spirits. It has probably been too warm for students to start feeling the excitement of a new school year, but they...
Pastor’s Letter 8.7.22

Pastor’s Letter 8.7.22

Dear Friends, Our second reading this weekend is a brief portion of Chapter 11 from Hebrews. That chapter gives us a beautiful testimony as to how faith was lived out by the great ones of the Old Testament. It challenges us to have that same kind of faith. The Jesuit...
Pastor’s Letter 7.31.22

Pastor’s Letter 7.31.22

Dear Friends, This past week, Pope Francis has been on a pilgrimage to Canada and to visit the Indigenous people of Canada to make amends for the role the Catholic Church played over the years in the horrible treatment of native peoples. Hopefully you were able to...
Pastor’s Letter 7.24.22

Pastor’s Letter 7.24.22

Dear Friends, On this weekend where the Santa Lucia Festival is taking place on our doorstep, I think it is good to reflect on a consistent teaching of Pope Francis. That is the teaching that we as disciples of Jesus have to be people who create a culture of...
Pastor’s Letter 7.17.22

Pastor’s Letter 7.17.22

Dear Friends, When I remember childhood summer days, I remember sun and water. Wet grass squeaking between my toes as we ran through sprinklers in the yard. Wrinkled fingers and waterlogged ears from countless hours at the city pool. Barefoot running through...
Pastor’s Letter 7.10.22

Pastor’s Letter 7.10.22

Dear Friends, The decision several months ago for the Archdiocese to stop publishing the Catholic Voice newspaper because of increasing printing costs means that all of us have to work a little harder to get news of happenings in the Catholic Church around the world....