Pastor’s Letter 11.11.18

Pastor’s Letter 11.11.18

Dear Friends, Church law requires every priest to make a weeklong annual retreat. I will be leaving for my retreat tomorrow and will return the following Monday. Please keep me in your prayers this week. I will keep you in mine. I have always enjoyed retreats and this...
Pastor’s Letter 11.4.18

Pastor’s Letter 11.4.18

Dear Friends, With the election on Tuesday, I would encourage you this weekend to reread the statement by the United States Bishops on Faithful Citizenship. You can find it on line at http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship. It is impossible to put...
Pastor’s Letter 10.28.18

Pastor’s Letter 10.28.18

Dear Friends, Thanks for all your help in completing another very successful Spaghetti Dinner. It was a smashing success thanks to the work and cooperation of so many people. It takes an army to provide almost 5,000 dinners! People always comment that the event is run...
Pastor’s Letter 10.21.18

Pastor’s Letter 10.21.18

Dear Friends, Welcome to the Spaghetti Dinner weekend! The fall Dinner always happens in the midst of falling leaves and football. I hope you can come over and join us for some great food and friendship. The team always needs your help to serve others, so if you have...
Pastor’s Letter 10.14.18

Pastor’s Letter 10.14.18

Dear Friends, A couple of weeks ago we had two young women from the John Paul II Newman Center at Masses to talk about the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. They both read a beautiful quote at the beginning of their talk from an Italian American female saint which spoke of...
Pastor’s Letter 10.7.18

Pastor’s Letter 10.7.18

Dear Friends, You may not have heard the news. A recent study from the University of Maryland has shown that members of the generation born in and after the mid 1980s are divorcing at a lower rate than prior generations! Philip Cohen, a sociology professor at the...