Pastor’s Letter 4.2.17

Pastor’s Letter 4.2.17

Dear Friends, Last Sunday as many of us were celebrating Helen Butera’s 100th birthday in the school gym there was a small group of our Sudanese parishioners meeting in the parish center discussing how they can help their family members and friends back in Sudan where...
Pastor’s Letter 3.26.17

Pastor’s Letter 3.26.17

Dear Friends, I was talking with an Orthodox Christian this past week and moaning a little bit about what I had given up for Lent. He had no empathy for me. He tried to explain to me how much fasting and abstinence took place in the Orthodox Church. It was news to me....
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...