Pastor’s Letter 6.17.18

Pastor’s Letter 6.17.18

Dear Friends, Next Sunday, we will have a second collection to help pay for the costs of the work project in the village of San Miguel Acatan. The work of our mission project helps people to stay in their homeland with their loved ones rather than immigrate to foreign...
Pastor’s Letter 6.10.18

Pastor’s Letter 6.10.18

Dear Friends, Happy Santa Lucia festival weekend!! I hope you have a chance to enjoy the music and the food and the friendships. Please stay cool in the midst of the heat. I continue to be impressed during the festival by the willingness of so many folks to openly...
Pastor’s Letter 6.3.18

Pastor’s Letter 6.3.18

Dear Friends, When I open the outer tabernacle door to retrieve the reserved Eucharist, you may notice that there is a pelican painted on the door. The pelican mother in the painting is poking her chest with her bill to offer her own blood to her little chicks. The...
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...