My Dear Friends, Yesterday we celebrated the feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa). In last week’s homily I shared with you some of the list that she kept to acquire the virtue of humility. Here is the list in its entirety: 1. Speak as little as possible about yourself. 2. Keep busy with …
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My Dear Friends, We are embarking on a new parish wide prayer initiative as we get ready to open our Centennial Year in two weeks. I’d like to personally welcome you to pray & engage with the Little Flower community on our Hallow parish page. Hallow is the #1 prayer & meditation app, featuring prayers, music, …
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My Dear Friends, School started almost two weeks ago, and we have had a wonderful beginning to our 100th year at St. Theresa. I know many of our young parishioners had wonderful first weeks at their respective schools. Now that classes have begun, parents are no doubt registering their children in all types of interesting …
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My Dear Friends, We are a little bit past the halfway point of our refurbishment of the church. Things are, praise God, going very well with a lot of the painting being done around the sanctuary this week and needed structural work continuing at the choir loft. That is a very simplified version of all …
My dear friends, Believe it or not, school starts at Saint Teresa this coming Tuesday for our students and on Thursday for our public school students. Summer has really flown by. Last week our teachers had a beautiful retreat to start the school year, and I ask you to join me in praying for them, …
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My dear friends, This coming Monday, August 4th, the Church celebrates the Feast of St. John Vianney who is the patron of parish priests and seminarians. St. John Vianney was a simple parish priest who spent hours upon hours in the confessional and had great zeal for the Eucharist. He offered this profound catechesis on …
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My dear friends, As we approach the end of July, I want to give you an update on the work being done inside our church. It is both very daunting and very exciting when you think of how beautiful our church will look when we return there for worship in the fall: a temple beautifully …
My Dear Friends: I can’t thank all of you enough for your patience, cooperation, and words of encouragement as we began celebrating the Sunday Mass here in our old church last week. The compliments Father David and I received after each Mass are a testament to the hard work our parish staff and dedicated volunteers …
My Dear Friends: Welcome to our (original) church. As you look around our new worship space this weekend, I want you to put yourself in the shoes of our founding parishioners. In 1927, the building where we will be celebrating Mass for the next few months was consecrated as a church. Imagine how the first …
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