Pastor’s Letter 5.27.18

Pastor’s Letter 5.27.18

Dear Friends, Each year, on the Sunday following Pentecost, the church celebrates the feast of the Holy Trinity. A mystery. A concept that is difficult to understand. Yet, the Trinity is at the very heart of the Christian understanding of God. It is Jesus who reveals...
Pastor’s Letter 5.20.18

Pastor’s Letter 5.20.18

  Dear Friends, On this Sunday when we celebrate Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit into our midst and the beginning of the Church, I thought it would be good to continue some of Pope Francis recent letter to you about holiness and prayer. The following...
Pastor’s Letter 5.13.18

Pastor’s Letter 5.13.18

Dear Friends, You may have noticed that I have not been around the parish the last two weekends. I left shortly after the Spaghetti Dinner to take a vacation with a few friends to Israel. I am back – not rested of course – but I am back. The trip went very well except...
Pastor’s Letter 5.6.18

Pastor’s Letter 5.6.18

Dear Friends, We continue the second chapter of Pope Francis’ letter to you where he talks about the challenge of contemporary forms of the pelagian heresy: “The same power that the gnostics attributed to the intellect, others now began to attribute to the human will,...
Pastor’s Letter 4.29.18

Pastor’s Letter 4.29.18

Dear Friends, In Chapter Two of Pope Francis’ letter to you on holiness he mentions two false forms of holiness that have been condemned by the church over the centuries, but still exist today. Pope Francis sees these two heresies as causing problems for every day...
Pastor’s Letter 4.22.18

Pastor’s Letter 4.22.18

Dear Friends, I hope you enjoyed the introduction to Pope Francis’ letter on Holiness last week. Here is a little more from Chapter One: “A Christian cannot think of his or her mission on earth without seeing it as a path of holiness, for ‘this is the will of God,...