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...

  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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

Dear Friends, Pope Francis wrote you a letter this week. Like most letters from popes, it is a bit long, so you may not be able to read the whole thing in one sitting. He wrote the letter to encourage you to be holy. It is written in Pope Francis’ style which is not...

Dear Friends, In the eyes of the Church, Easter continues on! Not satisfied with one day, we celebrate Easter for 50 days! The Easter season ends on Pentecost…fifty days from Easter. To honor that reality and as we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday, I’d like to give you a...

Dear Friends, This Easter I have had some odd memories from my childhood. Not of Easter egg hunts, but of the old-fashioned westerns that were common fare on television when I was young. In many of the old westerns, the hero comes into a village, does the good that...

Dear Friends, Our Lenten Journey has reached its end and the celebration of Holy Week is upon us. I hope you find time this week to join us in the liturgies as we remember the great events of the life of Jesus. I think the liturgies of this week help us to understand...

Dear Friends, What an incredible week we just finished! I am sure that those of you who had the opportunity to attend the Lenten Mission with ValLimar Jansen found your faith-life stimulated, challenged and filled with joy. Her powerful singing voice and acting...

Dear Friends, I hope you can join us for the Parish Lenten Mission being presented by ValLimar Jansen. I am sure you will not only learn, but you will have a chance to pray and to celebrate all that God is and does for you. And, it will be enjoyable. The enjoyable...