Pastor’s Letter 8.15.21

Pastor’s Letter 8.15.21

Dear Friends, A new school year has begun. Teachers have been meeting and preparing their classrooms. Families have been shopping for school supplies and taking last minute trips. While the weather remains warm, the school year is underway. At the beginning of a new...
Pastor’s Letter 8.8.21

Pastor’s Letter 8.8.21

Dear Friends, I enjoy watching sporting events but do not often spend much time doing it. This past week, thanks to steadyrains in the Colorado mountains, I had the opportunity to watch the daily highlights of the Olympics. It wasodd to watch them without the normal...
Pastor’s Letter 8.1.21

Pastor’s Letter 8.1.21

Dear Friends, I wrote last week about the importance of having ceremony and celebration in our lives to help us be our fullest selves and in creating a healthy human culture. Catholics are famous for our rituals and our parties which make life much richer. This is one...
Pastor’s Letter 7.25.21

Pastor’s Letter 7.25.21

Dear Friends, We are planning to have a parish celebration to “ritualize” the ending of the separation caused by the pandemic. It is a very Catholic thing to do. I am aware that the pandemic is not over and there are still possibilities of variants popping up to haunt...
Pastor’s Letter 7.18.21

Pastor’s Letter 7.18.21

Dear Friends, Starting last Sunday, the second reading at Sunday Mass comes from St. Paul’s wonderful letter to the people of Ephesus. We will be listening to it for the remainder of the summer. Perhaps that does not strike you as anything special, but those...
Pastor’s Letter 7.11.21

Pastor’s Letter 7.11.21

Dear Friends, I just finished reading a book by Alan Lightman who teaches at MIT. It is entitled, Probable Impossibilities, Musings on Beginnings and Endings. He is not a believer in God, but the book presents scientific and philosophical questions about what we know...