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 …
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December 10th – II Sunday of Advent
From the Pastor’s Desk - December 7th, 2023
December 3rd – I Sunday of Advent
From the Pastor’s Desk - November 30th, 2023
My Dear Friends: Advent is finally here! What a blessing that we are able to enter this holy season to prepare our hearts for the coming of our Lord! When I was a child, my family had a hard and fast rule that we would not start decorating the house for Christmas until December 1st. …
November 26th – Solemnity of Christ the King
From the Pastor’s Desk - November 23rd, 2023
My Dear Friends: Today the Universal Church gathers to celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King. It puts a fitting and definitive punctuation on the liturgical year as we declare with one voice that Christ is indeed the King of the Universe. This solemnity is a challenge for each of us as we ask ourselves: …
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19 de Noviembre – XXXIII Domingo en el Tiempo Ordinario
From the Pastor’s Desk - November 16th, 2023
Mis queridos amigos, Hace casi 20 años, justo antes del Día de Acción de Gracias, uno de los niños del grupo de jóvenes que dirigía en mi primera parroquia compartió conmigo una tarea que había recibido en su clase de religión en Carrollton durante su primer año de escuela secundaria. Su maestra les pidió a …
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November 19th – XXXIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - November 16th, 2023
My Dear Friends: Almost 20 years ago right before Thanksgiving, one of the kids in the youth group that I was leading in my first parish shared with me a homework assignment she had received in her religion class in Carrollton during her freshman year of high school. Her teacher asked the students to take …
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November 12 – XXXII Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - November 9th, 2023
My Dear Friends: As we continue this month of November dedicated to prayer for our faithful departed, I offer you this reflection on today’s readings given 12 years ago by our dearly departed Pope Benedict XVI. I ask you to pay particular attention to the second reading today: The Biblical Readings of this Sunday’s Liturgy …
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November 5th – XXXI Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - November 3rd, 2023
My Dear Friends: In today’s gospel, Jesus tells the disciples, “Call no one on earth your father.” He does not mean this literally, for he is simply warning the disciples about the feeling of superiority that the Pharisees had gotten over all the titles they enjoyed being called. For me, the title “father” has never …
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October 29th – XXX Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - October 27th, 2023
My Dear Friends: The Catholic tradition of offering Masses for our loved ones, especially those who have died, can be traced to the beginnings of the Catholic Church. In the Eucharist we are united in a unique way with the faithful departed and the Communion of Saints. Why do we offer Masses for our loved …
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October 20th – XXIX Sunday in Ordinary Time
From the Pastor’s Desk - October 20th, 2023
My Dear Friends: Today we celebrate World Mission Sunday which falls on October 22 which would normally be the feast day of our beloved Pope St. John Paul II. On this Mission Sunday back in 1997, he proclaimed our patroness, St. Therese of Lisieux, a doctor of the church. I thought it was only appropriate …
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