My Dear Friends, Happy New Year! 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 with those who decorated our …
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My Dear Friends, “She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” (Luke 2:7) Merry Christmas! I am so thankful to be sharing my fourth Christmas with all of you as your pastor. We are a family who just observed four joyous weeks …
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My Dear Friends, Jesus is coming! In one week, we’ll be gathering to celebrate the birth of the Messiah. The question is, are you ready? As I mentioned a month ago, we have been blessed this year to celebrate the full four weeks of Advent, but now that we’re getting towards the end, Christmas seems …
My Dear Friends, 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 you wanted above everything else. But alas, it was not under the tree. You smiled half-heartedly playing with the toys that you received but were …
My Dear Friends, “Without silence, God disappears in the noise. And this noise becomes all the more obsessive because God is absent. Unless the world rediscovers silence, it is lost. The earth then rushes into nothingness” —Cardinal Robert Sarah Silence. The season of Advent begins and silence greets us. It is a welcoming silence. One …
My Dear Friends, Today we bring our liturgical year to a close with the Solemnity of Christ the King. The primary question I always ask the faithful on this day is this: “Does Christ reign in your heart?” Not part of it, not on certain days of the week, but does he completely reign in …
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My Dear Friends, Beauty speaks of the Divine. Have you ever invited a guest into Little Flower and seen their expression when they behold the majesty of our church for the first time? Last year, there was a young lady who had just arrived from Cuba whom I took into the church …
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My Dear Friends, It is such a blessing to be a witness to so many miracles of love in our parish. Yes, we gather together every Sunday to behold the miracle of the Eucharist where Christ becomes really present at the altar, but that spurs so many of our parishioners to go and perform miracles …
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My Dear Friends, The Catholic tradition of offering Masses for our loved ones, especially those who have died, can be traced to the beginnings of the Catholic Church. In the Eucharist we are united in a unique way with the faithful departed and the Communion of Saints. Why do we offer Masses for our loved …
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