My Dear Friends: Since Holy Week is now a week away and we start to hasten towards Easter, I wanted to offer you excerpts and reflection on my homily last week on The Prodigal Son. This is such a timeless parable that continues to move us as it surely moved those who heard it from …
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April 3rd – V Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 31st, 2022
March 27th – IV Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 23rd, 2022
My Dear Friends: On March 15, Archbishop Wenski promulgated a letter that I would like to share with you today. In it he ends the dispensation that has been in place since the pandemic began and restores the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. The letter starts off with a quote from the Catechism of …
March 20th – III Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 17th, 2022
“In the name of God, I ask: Stop this massacre,” With those words last Sunday, Pope Francis appealed for an end to the war in Ukraine. That war has been weighing down on us the last few weeks. We have felt sorrow or anger or even helpless as we see a people suffer so much. …
March 13th – II Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 11th, 2022
My Dear Friends: Last week I wrote my bulletin column two days before Ash Wednesday. Nothing could have prepared my brother priests and I for the overwhelming number of people that attended Mass that day. Almost every Mass was full to capacity, and the 5:30pm Spanish Mass looked like Easter Sunday Mass. Yes, after two …
March 6th – I Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 3rd, 2022
My Dear Friends: As we begin the season of Lent, our hearts are obviously heavy with the events transpiring in Ukraine. On Ash Wednesday, we all spent the day in fasting and prayer to implore our Lord, the Prince of Peace, to restore peace and stability to that region. We have been edified by the …
February 27th – VIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 25th, 2022
My Dear Friends: This coming Wednesday we begin the season of Lent. As a Church, we approach this sacred time as a season of opportunity: an opportunity to return to the Lord, an opportunity for silence as we journey with Jesus into the desert, and an opportunity to shed the battle scars of sin to …
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February 20th – VII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 17th, 2022
My Dear Friends: I pray you are enjoying the long Presidents’ Day Weekend and are finding time to rest. Usually, we don’t mention rest until the summer or around the Christmas holidays, but it is always important to find times to rest in the Lord during the entire year. With that in mind, I want …
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February 13 – VI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 10th, 2022
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 …
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, …