My Dear Friends: “`If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.’” Taking a child, he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, `Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives …
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My Dear Friends: Today the Church celebrates Catechetical Sunday, and at our 10:30am Mass our catechists from our Religious Education program and our teachers from our parochial school will be commissioned as catechists for this school year. We have 250 students in Religious Education and 910 students in our school, so 1160 children will be …
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Archbishop Wenski’s column for May 2024 edition of the Florida Catholic Florida Amendment 4, which will appear on Florida’s November 2024 ballot, is an extreme proposal that legalizes full term abortion with no protections for the preborn child, including when the child is capable of feeling pain. This proposed amendment to our state constitution would …
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My Dear Friends: As we celebrate this much needed long weekend, as a parish we start preparing for a busy few months of retreats and activities by our ministries. As I wrote last week, this coming Wednesday, September 4 at 8pm, we will go as a parish to the feet of Our Lady to celebrate …
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My Dear Friends: Our ministries are back in full force after a quiet, restful summer. Over the next two months, we have so many events and ministries starting up that we are honestly scrambling to find enough room in the bulletin to fit all these announcements. A very good problem to have as a parish. …
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My Dear Friends: School has started, and we had a wonderful first week across the street at St. Theresa, and I know many of our young parishioners had wonderful first weeks at their respective schools. Now that classes have begun (or about to begin at some of our local private schools), parents are no doubt …
My Dear Friends, It is so wonderful to be back home at Little Flower after some time of rest this summer. I have missed all of you, and more importantly, I have missed sharing with you the Word of God and the presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Vacations are moments of rest, reflection, …
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My Dear Friends, Thank you for the incredible welcome you gave to Father David last weekend. I know he felt the love of this community: the love that you always show to all our priests. The joy of the priesthood is contagious because we share the Word of God and the Real Presence of Christ …
My Dear Friends, This weekend we welcome our new parochial vicar, Father David Zallocco, to the Little Flower family. Father David was just ordained last month, and this is his first assignment as a priest. Our parish is no stranger for welcoming newly ordained priests and forming them to be great leaders within the Church. …