Reflection from Pope Francis on today’s Gospel: This Sunday’s Gospel passage (cf. Mk 1:14-20) shows us, so to speak, the “passing of the baton” from John the Baptist to Jesus. John was His precursor; he prepared the terrain for Him and he prepared the way for Him: Jesus can now begin his mission and announce the salvation …
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My Dear Friends: As we continue our journey to our parish’s 100th anniversary in 2026, some of the renovation work that we had planned for that year may have to happen sooner rather than later. Let me explain. On New Year’s Eve two weeks ago, Father Andrew was celebrating the 5:30pm Sunday Mass. In the …
My Dear Friends: As we gather this weekend to celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord, as a Church we are still contemplating the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God. Over the last two weeks, so many parishioners have sat in the first pews of the church to take in the splendor of …
My Dear Friends: Happy Feast of the Holy Family! We pray you had a beautiful Christmas last week. Our Masses were overflowing as friends, young and old, came to our beautiful church to pay homage to the Newborn King. I must thank everyone who made Christmas Eve and Christmas Day such a great success, starting …
My Dear Friends: How can one not be in awe as we behold the marvels of God’s love for us? We gather this Christmas to behold God become vulnerable for us in the Christ child. God not only sent his only Son to redeem humanity, but he took on our humanity to sanctify us, to …
My Dear Friends: “Rejoice always.” These are the first two words we hear in the second reading in today’s Mass from 1 Thessalonians 5:16. This is indeed a Sunday for rejoicing! Christmas is a week away. We light the third candle on the Advent wreath, and we hear not only those two words from St. …
My Dear Friends: “A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!” (Isaiah 40:3) Remember those Christmases when you were a child when you didn’t get the gift you wanted? You kept opening present after present looking for that one gift that …
My Dear Friends: Advent is finally here! What a blessing that we are able to enter this holy season to prepare our hearts for the coming of our Lord! When I was a child, my family had a hard and fast rule that we would not start decorating the house for Christmas until December 1st. …
My Dear Friends: Today the Universal Church gathers to celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King. It puts a fitting and definitive punctuation on the liturgical year as we declare with one voice that Christ is indeed the King of the Universe. This solemnity is a challenge for each of us as we ask ourselves: …
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