by sjchurchadmin | Jan 6, 2017 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER In 1508 Pope Julius II invited the Italian painter Raphael, a student of Leonardo da Vinci, to Rome and commissioned him to paint religious frescos in the Vatican Palace. He found several artists already at work on different rooms, many painting over...
by sjchurchadmin | Jan 6, 2017 | Pastor's Desk
It was a hot day in July 1969 on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Sailors with binoculars were searching the sky above the carrier. Suddenly they let out a yell. There, orange and white parachutes exploded and bloomed in the blue sky. Dangling from them was a...
by sjchurchadmin | Jan 6, 2017 | Bulletins
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by sjchurchadmin | Jan 1, 2017 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER A calendar is like a chain that emerges out of the waters of oblivion and holds the ship of history to its moorings. Beneath the surface of the waters, there must have been sunk some kind of an anchor. — P.W. Wilson. There are six principal...
by sjchurchadmin | Jan 1, 2017 | Pastor's Desk
A boy asked his father, “Dad, if three frogs were sitting on a limb that hangs over a pool, and one frog decided to jump off into the pool, how many frogs would be left on the limb?” The dad replied, “Two.” “No,” the son replied....
