My Dear Friends, As we begin Passiontide and are confronted with the stark visual of our statues being covered as we approach Easter, I urge all of you to make a good Lenten confession, if you have not already done so, before Holy Thursday. Elsewhere in this bulletin, you will find the Holy Week Schedule …
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March 22nd – V Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 20th, 2026
March 15th – IV Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 13th, 2026
My Dear Friends, In today’s gospel, Jesus cures a blind beggar. The Lord “spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam” — which means Sent —. So he went and washed, and came back able …
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March 8th – III Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 6th, 2026
My Dear Friends, As we continue our Lenten journey, we are surrounded by so many parish activities that lift our eyes towards the heavens as we prepare to celebrate the Paschal Mystery. We have seen an increase in our confession lines on Saturday morning and in people calling to ask for appointments for confessions. To …
March 1st – II Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 27th, 2026
My Dear Friends, What a glorious day we had last Sunday when our parish community came together to unload the first half of our pipe organ! Parishioners, young and old, were present and took some part of the organ into the church: from large pieces of wood casing or steel beams all the way to …
February 22nd – I Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 20th, 2026
Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV for Lent 2026 Dear brothers and sisters, Lent is a time in which the Church, guided by a sense of maternal care, invites us to place the mystery of God back in the center of our lives, in order to find renewal in our faith and keep our …
February 15 – VI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 12th, 2026
My Dear Friends, At the end of every Mass that we celebrate with our school children, our principal, Sister Rosalie leads the children in post-Mass prayers. The children kneel down as soon as the priest celebrant has walked out of the church and recessional hymn ends. Sister then leads them in the prayer to St. …
February 8th – V Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 6th, 2026
My dear Brothers and Sisters, From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank each and every one of you for your contributions to the ABCD appeal last weekend. The response was overwhelming, and as usual, the generosity of this parish knows no bounds. If you were out last weekend, I invite you to …
February 1st – IV Sunday in Ordinary Time – ABCD Weekend
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 30th, 2026
My dear Brothers and Sisters, Life can be noisy and, at times, overwhelming. Yet in the quiet moments of prayer, a still, gentle voice speaks to us—a deep conviction that stirs within and calls us to look beyond ourselves. Each day, we’re surrounded by the clamor of the world—its demands, its distractions, its pressures—but even …
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January 25th – III Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 22nd, 2026
My Dear Friends, As you read last week in the bulletin, we are preparing for the installation of our pipe organ in the balcony next month. This is an exciting time for our parish as we prepare to leave the next generations of parishioners what our founders left to us. Since we returned to the …
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