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Visit Us:
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Email Us:
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Pastor’s Letter 5.24.20

Pastor’s Letter 5.24.20

May 23, 2020 | Pastor's Letters

Dear Friends, For many of us, life is slowly returning to a more normal routine and for others, life remains a place of quarantine because we are part of an “at risk” group.  Either way, we continue to find ourselves with “extra time” on our hands because we...
Pastor’s Letter 5.17.20

Pastor’s Letter 5.17.20

May 16, 2020 | Pastor's Letters

Dear Friends, One of the benefits of the present health crisis is that I have more time to read than normal and the quiet to read poetry as it needs to be read. So let me share with you something I recently read, a brief reflection and a poem from the poet and...
Pastor’s Letter 5.10.20

Pastor’s Letter 5.10.20

May 9, 2020 | Pastor's Letters

Dear Friends, The COVID crisis has been a reminder to all of us that our human community is far more fragile than most of us had ever imagined.  It took something small but contagious to turn the whole world upside down.  Our modern technology and...
Pastor’s Letter 5.3.20

Pastor’s Letter 5.3.20

May 2, 2020 | Pastor's Letters

Friends, Like many of the pastors in the Archdiocese, I am taking this opportunity to tell you where we are at in the process of starting to offer Mass again.  When the Governor and the Archbishop said that we could start having Mass (within the guidelines), it...
Pastor’s Letter 4.26.20

Pastor’s Letter 4.26.20

Apr 25, 2020 | Pastor's Letters

Dear Friends, In a recent article in the British journal, The Tablet, the historian Tom Holland wrote about the impact the plagues played in early church history: “At the end of the second century, and then again in the middle of the third, bowls of wrath were poured...
Pastor’s Letter 4.19.20

Pastor’s Letter 4.19.20

Apr 18, 2020 | Pastor's Letters

Dear Friends, In the rectory, I have a reprint of a painting by Caravaggio that depicts the calling of St. Matthew. Like most of his paintings, this one has lots of darkness and glimmers of light similar to the paintings of Rembrandt.  Chiaroscuro is the term...