Pastor’s Letter 3.19.17

Pastor’s Letter 3.19.17

Dear Friends, You may have noticed a lot of activity around the new parish center this past week. The new windows and doors for the parish center have arrived and are being installed! The windows and doors presently in the building are the originals from 50 years ago....
Pastor’s Letter 3.12.17

Pastor’s Letter 3.12.17

  Dear Friends, How are you doing on your Lenten journey? Did you make it through the first full week of Lent without surrendering to temptation?  Are you continuing to fast and pray? Did you accomplish some of the good things you had planned to do this week? I...
Pastor’s Letter 3.5.17

Pastor’s Letter 3.5.17

Dear Friends, Our Lenten liturgies are filled with powerful stories. They are stories that unveil the mystery of our God. They are stories that reveal our deeper selves and our journey of faith. We may not always like what they reveal, but if it tells a story of...
Pastor’s Letter 2.26.17

Pastor’s Letter 2.26.17

Dear Friends,   This week we embark on our Lenten journey to deepen our friendship with Christ, to experience, as Pope Francis has said, the richness of grace through the poverty of Christ. That concept may sound confusing to some of us. How can the poverty of...
Pastor’s Letter 2.19.17

Pastor’s Letter 2.19.17

Dear Friends, Lent begins next week. Now is the time to start making your plans for spiritual growth during the Lenten season. The Liturgy Committee of the parish has followed Pope Francis’ example in coming up with our parish focus for Lent 2017. Our focus will be...
Pastor’s Letter 2.12.17

Pastor’s Letter 2.12.17

Dear Friends, On one of my first days, here in the parish, I encountered an image of a saint I had never heard of before – Sr. Josephine Bakhita. From the framed image, I knew she was a woman from Africa but I did not know her story. There are just too many saints to...