Pastor’s Letter 4.4.21

Pastor’s Letter 4.4.21

Happy Easter! I trust your Lent was deeply spiritual. Perhaps you were able to join us in the Exodus Bible Study or the Marriage Course or the most recent Alpha series or maybe you did some spiritual reading or engaged in more prayer or maybe you took on some works of...
Pastor’s Letter 3.28.21

Pastor’s Letter 3.28.21

Dear Friends, The most sacred week of the year is here. I hope your Lent was holy and that your relationship with the Lord has deepened. I hope, too, that it has prepared you for walking with Jesus during the Triduum when we remember the gift of the Eucharist, the...
Pastor’s Letter 3.21.21

Pastor’s Letter 3.21.21

Dear Friends, If you walked into the church this weekend, then you noticed that the statues and images are covered – at least the ones we can reach! You may be wondering why the parish does this the last couple weeks of Lent. We might first ask why we have statues and...
Pastor’s Letter 3.14.21

Pastor’s Letter 3.14.21

Dear Friends, Pope Francis’ extraordinary visit to war-weary Iraq moved me to tears a number of times. He went to bring comfort and support to the remaining Christians who had suffered so terribly under the ISIS regime. He clearly was acting as a good shepherd who...
Pastor’s Letter 3.7.21

Pastor’s Letter 3.7.21

Dear Friends, Last week while searching for something to watch, I ran across a documentary on Amazon Prime about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I’ve read a number of books about Bonhoeffer, but I’ve never seen the documentary. It was well done. You may know that Bonhoeffer was...
Pastor’s Letter 2.28.21

Pastor’s Letter 2.28.21

Dear Friends, I blame my faulty memory on many things – age, brain cells nearing capacity, too much new input coming in too quickly – perhaps you have some creative excuses that I could use. Memory is not logical or rational. Most of what is in our...