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 …
From the Pastor’s Desk
February 8th – V Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 6th, 2026
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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January 18th – II Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 15th, 2026
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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January 11th – Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 8th, 2026
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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January 4th – Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 2nd, 2026
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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December 28th – Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 26th, 2025
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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December 21st – IV Sunday of Advent
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 19th, 2025
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 …
December 14th – III Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday)
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 12th, 2025
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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