Pastor’s Letter 10.20.19

Pastor’s Letter 10.20.19

Dear Friends, It is Spaghetti Dinner Sunday!!! Thanks to all of you who will be spending lots of time serving the meals today. I hope you find it enjoyable and a chance to work side by side with parishioners you did not know before. To those of you who are our guests,...
Pastor’s Letter 10.13.19

Pastor’s Letter 10.13.19

Dear Friends, The Catholic Church teaches us to work for justice for all people. The Church proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral vision for society. Every human person is made in the image of God;...
Pastor’s Letter 10.6.19

Pastor’s Letter 10.6.19

Dear Friends, There was a wonderful essay in last week’s Wall Street Journal by Sarah Hurwitz who wrote about her experience of finally embracing her Jewish faith as an adult. It took her until she was 36 years old and functioning successfully in the world before she...
Pastor’s Letter 9.29.19

Pastor’s Letter 9.29.19

Dear Friends, At the theology conference I attended last week, I entered into a fascinating conversation with a couple of other attendees concerning what the scholar Charles Taylor calls a “false narrative of subtraction.” Taylor says that today’s Christians have a...
Pastor’s Letter 9.22.19

Pastor’s Letter 9.22.19

Dear Friends, The theology conference I am attending this week is exploring Catholic imagination through different mediums. You may wonder why the imagination is important to religion at all, but, really, it is very important. A brilliant theologian, Fr. David Tracy,...
Pastor’s Letter 9.15.19

Pastor’s Letter 9.15.19

Dear Friends, You should have received a copy of the Annual Report in the mail this week. If not, there are copies at the entryways to the church. Please take one. If you did not receive one by mail, then it is possible that the parish does not have an up-to-date...