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 …
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January 7th – The Epiphany of the Lord
From the Pastor’s Desk - January 4th, 2024
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 …
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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