My Dear Friends: Once again, I want to thank all of you for your pledges and donations to the annual fund for the ABCD campaign. I am always overwhelmed by thegenerosity of our parishioners when called on to help the poor and our Church. We’ve passed about a third of our goal already with some …
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February 13 – VI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 10th, 2022
February 6th – V Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 4th, 2022
My Dear Friends: We offer you this beautiful mediation on today’s gospel given by Pope Francis. Enjoy. In today’s Gospel passage, Luke’s narrative (cf. Lk 5:1-11) offers us the call of Saint Peter. His name — as we know — was Simon, and he was a fisherman. On the shore of the Lake of Galilee, …
January 30th – IV Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 28th, 2022
My Dear Friends: I can’t thank you enough for the generosity that you showed last weekend during our ABCD campaign. Even though we did not have the traditional video presentation during the homily, you were very kind with your words of encouragement as I sought to use words to bring the video and the campaign …
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January 23rd – III Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 22nd, 2022
My dear friends, In the fourth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, we hear how the early Christian community placed their offerings at the feet of the Apostles to distribute to each according to their need. They were cognizant of the poor in their midst and because of their generosity, we read that “there …
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January 16th – II Sunday of Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 13th, 2022
From the Desk of Fr. Omar Dear brothers and sisters in Christ: We just have finished our beautiful Christmas Season, and now, we are entering for a little while into the Ordinary Time before we encounter once more the season of Lent. This week’s readings are calling us to put the gifts we have received …
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January 9th – Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 6th, 2022
My Dear Friends, Last week, I introduced you to our new parish initiative of instituting “Formation Wednesdays” to increase our collective understanding of our Catholic faith. Due to scheduling conflicts this month and a school Confirmation Mass, we will not be able to begin our Formation Wednesdays until February 2. During that month, Father Omar …
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January 2nd – The Epiphany of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 30th, 2021
My dear friends, Happy New ! And Happy Epiphany! (Ok. Let’s try this again.) For many, the last two years have felt like we have been in a kind of stasis. We haven’t tried new things or gone on any bold adventures because of COVID. While as a parish we started emerging from ministerial hibernation last year, there is still so …
December 26th – Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 23rd, 2021
My Dear Friends, Merry Christmas! We welcome those who are visiting our beautiful church this Christmas weekend. We pray that you will find here the warmth, the peace, and the presence of the Christ Child born in Bethlehem over two thousand years ago. In the days leading up to this Feast of our Redemption, our Carmelite Sisters …
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December 19 – IV Sunday of Advent
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 16th, 2021
My Dear Friends: There’s a word that should jump out at all of us as we read/listen to today’s readings: the word “small.” Today we gather on this last Sunday of Advent to celebrate, to rejoice in, and to remember that salvation came from a small town and from a small human being who also …