Pastor’s Letter 2.24.19

Pastor’s Letter 2.24.19

Dear Friends, I have been asked to write about this topic from several parishioners and recently I received an email from someone who decided to leave our parish because of it – is it permissible to carry on a conversation with other people during Mass? Those of you...
Pastor’s Letter 2.17.19

Pastor’s Letter 2.17.19

Dear Friends, The gospel today can be a bit challenging and confusing. Why would Jesus say that the poor are blessed? The gospel passage is similar to a statement made frequently by the United States Bishop’s Conference that there is a “preferential option for the...
Pastor’s Letter 2.10.19

Pastor’s Letter 2.10.19

Dear Friends, My students in the lower grades at All Saints reminded me that Valentine’s Day was coming up this week and invited me to come to their parties. I warned them that I probably would not have a Valentine card or candy for each of them. They would just have...
Pastor’s Letter 2.3.19

Pastor’s Letter 2.3.19

Dear Friends, Years ago, I read a book by Parker Palmer entitled, The Promise of Paradox. The book offered spiritual reflections on ministry and the challenges of living as a disciple of Jesus. Mr. Palmer had gotten the ideas for the book from Fr. Thomas Merton, a...
Pastor’s Letter 1.27.19

Pastor’s Letter 1.27.19

Dear Friends, Social media and network news all covered an event in Washington this past week where a group of Catholic High School students were in a confrontation with two different groups protesting at the Lincoln Memorial as they waited for their bus to pick them...
Pastor’s Letter

Pastor’s Letter

Dear Friends, It is commonplace today in television shows, movies, books and music to find religion absolutely absent as if it did not exist and people never go to church. I am not sure when this began to happen, but it is always a surprise when we do run into some...