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From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, August 17, 2008
(Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Sensitivity is a wonderful thing. We should be sensitive to the physical and spiritual needs of others and of our own needs as well. But, there is a dark side to sensitivity when another’s ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, August 10, 2008
(Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Today’s first reading is from the book of Kings (1 Kings 19:9-13). Elijah is threatened with death by the evil queen Jezebel. Frightened and discouraged the prophet flees to Mount Horeb ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, August 03, 2008
(Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Before the Catholic Church could openly worship in actual church buildings such worship took place in homes. Certainly these homes were big enough to handle a crowd and attempt to feed them as well. ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, July 27, 2008
(Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
My cell phone has an appropriate tone to it. When I get a call it plays, “When the Saints Go Marching In,” and when it does I always say “and how I want to be in that number when ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, July 20, 2008
(Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
This week Matthew (13:24-30) tells us about the parables Jesus told about the reign of God as a field of wheat and weeds, a mustard seed and yeast.
Father Tomas Keating in his book The Mystery ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, July 13, 2008
(Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
ARISE: Together in Christ is a three-year parish-centered process of spiritual renewal and evangelization that enables people to develop a closer relationship with Christ, to grow ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, July 06, 2008
(Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
We should be glad to hear the words of Jesus in today’s gospel (Mt 11:25-30), “Come to me, all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you.”
We may not think ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, June 29, 2008
(Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles)
FEAST OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE
Pope Benedict XVI announced a special jubilee year dedicated to Saint Paul, saying the church needs modern Christians who will imitate ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, June 22, 2008
(Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
The scriptures tell us, “The fool says in his heart, there is no God” (Ps 14:1). He is a fool not because he does not believe but because he knows there is a God and acts as if there was no God. ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, June 15, 2008
(Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time)
From the first reading today (Ex 19:2-6) God says to his people: “You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.” In the gospel (Mt 9:36-10:8) we hear Jesus say to his ...
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