My Dear Friends, This past weekend I was able to visit, along with some of your fellow parishioners, our newly completed pipe organ in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was a beautiful pilgrimage that included a brief organ crawl through Boston with stops in the Harvard University chapel to hear their pipe organ (made by the same …
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My Dear Friends, As we conclude the Christmas season today, some of you had asked for a copy of the homily I preached last week for Epiphany. Here it is: When I was a child, our family would spend our summer weekends in the Florida Keys. The night sky is a lot clearer down south …
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My Dear Friends, Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany! We gather to continue our Christmas celebration while the rest of the world moves on. The birth of Christ must still resonate in our hearts as we continue to sing the praises of the newborn King. Today, we celebrate his revelation to all nations. Christ comes …
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My Dear Friends, I pray you had a beautiful Christmas Day, but the season continues for another two weeks. How blessed are we? The world may move on and start taking down their trees and their decorations, but as a Church, we continue to celebrate the birth of our Lord until the feast of his …
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My Dear Friends, This week we celebrate our 100th Christmas here at Little Flower. We welcome all our visitors who will be joining us to celebrate the Nativity of our Lord. Many of you have probably not been in our church since it was painted and refurbished this past summer. We pray you find the …
My Dear Friends, What brings you joy? On this Gaudete Sunday in which we focus on the virtue of joy, it is worth looking into our hearts and asking ourselves what and who brings us joy. As your pastor, there are so many things that have brought me joy just in the first two weeks …
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My Dear Friends, What a grace filled week we just experienced as a parish with the visit of the relics of St. Therese, our patroness. There was a peace that filled this entire campus all week as we had this great gift delivered to us during our centennial year. I share with you the homily …
My Dear Friends, As we begin this Advent season, we welcome all of our visitors who are coming to the Church of the Little Flower this week to venerate the relics of our patroness, St. Therese of the Child Jesus. This is going to be a hectic week for our parish that begins on Monday …
My Dear Friends, What an amazing Eucharistic celebration we had last week to celebrate our school’s centennial. We had well over 1,200 people join us on the school grounds for Mass and a historical walk. I thank all our alumni for coming to this once in a century celebration and thank all our school parents, …
Continue reading “November 23rd – Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe”