My Dear Friends, “…proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.” (2 Timothy 4:2) This week’s readings are all about persistence when it comes to prayer. Jesus wants the disciples to pray, persevere, and not grow weary like Moses did during the battle against …
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My Dear Friends, As Catholics, we oppose the death penalty. On this Respect Life Sunday, the fact that I had to write that concise first sentence to remind us of what the Catholic Church teaches speaks volumes as to how many of our faithful support and promote capital punishment. It saddens me as a pastor …
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My Dear Friends, We are now entering the last month of our “temporary exile” in our old church as the repairs and renovations in our beautiful church start winding down. We will celebrate our first Mass in the church on All Saints Day, Saturday, November 1st at 8am with a Mass followed by confessions and …
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My Dear Friends, As we continue to meditate upon the Mystery of the Cross and Christ’s victory over death, this week’s column is my homily from last Sunday’s celebration of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. ————— The violence in the last few weeks in our country has shown us that evil …
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My Dear Friends, Happy 100th Birthday St. Theresa! Tomorrow, we celebrate the 100th birthday of our parochial school which opened its doors as St. Joseph Academy on September 15, 1925. It will be a day of celebration here on campus as the children will attend Mass to properly celebrate this milestone, and then they will …
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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 …