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 …
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August 20th – XX Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - August 18th, 2023
August 13th – XIX Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - August 11th, 2023
My Dear Friends: Being a missionary is an essential part of being a Christian. In the Great Commissioning at the end of gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells his disciples and tells us: “Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations… (MT 28:19).” Each of us are called to be missionaries, to bring Christ into the …
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August 6th – Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - August 4th, 2023
July 30th – XVII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - July 28th, 2023
My Dear Friends: This coming Tuesday, August 1, World Youth Day festivities begin in Lisbon, Portugal as the youth of the world gather with Pope Francis to celebrate and grow in our faith. The theme for this year’s World Youth Day is “Mary arose and went with haste (Lk 1:39).” Obviously, this is from the …
July 23rd – XVI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - July 21st, 2023
My Dear Friends: Today we celebrate the 3rd World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly. Pope Francis established this day in 2021 near the feast of Saints Joaquim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus, to highlight the important role grandparents and the elderly play between generations. It is providential that we celebrate this day on …
July 16th – XV Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - July 14th, 2023
My Dear Friends: It’s been over a month since I wrote to you in this space. It is providential that I write to you again on this 16th of July which is traditionally the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel who is the Marian patroness of our parish. This is the statue which beautifully …
July 2nd – XIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - June 30th, 2023
Independence Day is about far more than hot dogs, fireworks, and baseball. It isn’t just the premier summer holiday in the American cultural landscape. The United States of America turns 247 years old this week, a blink in the time spans that other nations celebrate as their history. Yet, we know this country to be …
June 25th – XII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - June 23rd, 2023
From the Desk of Fr. Andrew The dog days of summer are almost upon us. It’s supposed to be a time when things slow down, but no one got that memo at the Church of the Little Flower. Vacation Bible School is in full swing. Fr. Manny and the group of parish pilgrims are enjoying …
June 18th – XI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - June 15th, 2023
Taken from the St. Andrew Bible Missal: Wasted time is not a prized commodity in American society. We are a people ruled by the clock. Time is money because time is to be filled with purposeful controlled activity which is productive of things which can be sold. We are convinced that we must be in …