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, …
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My Dear Friends, Today is a glorious day for our parish school. Archbishop Wenski will be coming to officially celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the School as we continue with our Centennial celebrations. As you might know, the school was founded on September 15, 1925. Ideally, we would have loved to celebrate a Mass with …
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My Dear Friends, Today we celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. This is the cathedral of Rome, and since the Pope is the bishop of Rome, it is the cathedral of the Universal Church. We celebrate this feast to remind us that we are one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic …
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My Dear Friends, “I rejoiced when they said to me, `Let us go to the house of the LORD.’” (Psalm 122:1) This was the hymn that Jewish pilgrims would sing in Old Testament times on their pilgrim journeys up to Jerusalem. Today, we join that ancient hymn as we return to our church for the …
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