My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the manifestation of the human and divine love in Jesus Himself. The love of the Sacred Heart is a human love, coming from the heart of one who is really and truly man. It is a sensible love capable of feeling affection and is influenced by …
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February 4th – V Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - February 4th, 2024
January 28th – IV Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 26th, 2024
My Dear Friends, Last weekend I returned from my 7th March for Life in Washington, D.C. with the young people of the Archdiocese and 19 pilgrims from our parish. It was a truly blessed event that had the gift of snow falling during the actual March. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned 18 months ago, …
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January 21st – III Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 20th, 2024
Reflection from Pope Francis on today’s Gospel: This Sunday’s Gospel passage (cf. Mk 1:14-20) shows us, so to speak, the “passing of the baton” from John the Baptist to Jesus. John was His precursor; he prepared the terrain for Him and he prepared the way for Him: Jesus can now begin his mission and announce the salvation …
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January 14 – II Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 11th, 2024
My Dear Friends: As we continue our journey to our parish’s 100th anniversary in 2026, some of the renovation work that we had planned for that year may have to happen sooner rather than later. Let me explain. On New Year’s Eve two weeks ago, Father Andrew was celebrating the 5:30pm Sunday Mass. In the …
January 7th – The Epiphany of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 4th, 2024
My Dear Friends: As we gather this weekend to celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord, as a Church we are still contemplating the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God. Over the last two weeks, so many parishioners have sat in the first pews of the church to take in the splendor of …
December 31st – Feast of the Holy Family
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 28th, 2023
My Dear Friends: Happy Feast of the Holy Family! We pray you had a beautiful Christmas last week. Our Masses were overflowing as friends, young and old, came to our beautiful church to pay homage to the Newborn King. I must thank everyone who made Christmas Eve and Christmas Day such a great success, starting …
December 24th – IV Sunday of Advent
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 28th, 2023
My Dear Friends: How can one not be in awe as we behold the marvels of God’s love for us? We gather this Christmas to behold God become vulnerable for us in the Christ child. God not only sent his only Son to redeem humanity, but he took on our humanity to sanctify us, to …
December 17th – III Sunday of Advent
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 14th, 2023
My Dear Friends: “Rejoice always.” These are the first two words we hear in the second reading in today’s Mass from 1 Thessalonians 5:16. This is indeed a Sunday for rejoicing! Christmas is a week away. We light the third candle on the Advent wreath, and we hear not only those two words from St. …
December 10th – II Sunday of Advent
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 7th, 2023
My Dear Friends: “A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!” (Isaiah 40:3) Remember those Christmases when you were a child when you didn’t get the gift you wanted? You kept opening present after present looking for that one gift that …