My dear parish family, Happy Easter! You have no idea how happy your parish priests are to welcome you home to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord after spending it apart last year. May our church shake with joy this day as our Alleluia’s are sung with even greater fervor. We were quiet last year …
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April 4th – Easter Sunday
From the Pastor’s Desk - April 3rd, 2021
March 28th – Palm Sunday
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 26th, 2021
My Dear Friends: What a difference a year makes! Last year when I sat down to write this column for Palm Sunday, it was to detail to each of you how to best experience Holy Week at home since our church was closed, and we were forced to celebrate the most important week of the …
March 21st – V Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 18th, 2021
My Dear Friends: Today we celebrate the Fifth Sunday of Lent which begins the last two weeks of Lent also known as “Passiontide.” Now we begin our immediate preparation to meditate on the sorrowful events of the Passion of our Lord which we will hear recounted next week on Palm Sunday of the Passion of …
March 14th – IV Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 11th, 2021
My Dear Friends: This coming Friday, March 19, we celebrate the Solemnity of St. Joseph. Being that Pope Francis has declared this the “Year of St. Joseph,” it takes on a special significance and also because we celebrate it during our Lenten journey. In his Apostolic Letter, “Patris Corde” (With a Father’s Heart) which the Holy …
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March 7th – III Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - March 4th, 2021
My Dear Friends: Rehab can often get violent. When we are trying to recover from an addiction or a vice, things may get messy. So it stands to reason that when we turn away from the vice of sin, the devil will do everything in his power to fight us and cause havoc. But that’s …
February 28th – II Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 25th, 2021
Dear Family: I want you to know that the Lord has blessed me abundantly from the moment He sent me to this wonderful community of faith, the community of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower, in Coral Gables — the community I am proud to now call my family. Thank you for your emotional, …
February 21st – I Sunday of Lent
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 18th, 2021
My Dear Friends, Silence. That sound is so rare. Many of us avoid silence. I know there have been times in my life that I have avoided it, but yet the most blessed times I have had in my spiritual life are when I have embraced it. Only in silence can we listen to the …
February 14th – VI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 11th, 2021
My Dear Friends, Believe it or not, Lent begins this coming Wednesday. It feels like we never quite emerged from Lent in 2020. God has taken us into the desert of this pandemic which has caused us to seek God out all the more, and now we are called to that renewal again. Even though …
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February 7th – V Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 4th, 2021
My Dear Friends, It’s so wonderful to be back ministering to all of you this weekend. I want to thank you for your prayers during the last two weeks as I was quarantined in the rectory after testing positive for COVID-19. Thankfully, my case was mild, and I was relatively symptom free. I know that …