by sjchurchadmin | Dec 9, 2016 | Pastor's Desk
A number of years ago, a young college student was working as an intern at his college’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, he saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As he looked more...
by sjchurchadmin | Dec 2, 2016 | Pastor's Desk
When the three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, landed on the moon, they were the very first human beings in history who could view our planet, Earth, from the outside. As they gazed from outer space and even tried to locate the various...
by sjchurchadmin | Nov 25, 2016 | Pastor's Desk
There is a beautiful anecdote given by Msgr. Arthur Tonne clarifying the message of today’s Gospel. Several years ago a bus driver in Oklahoma reached an unusual record. In 23 years he had driven a bus over 900,000 miles without a single accident. When asked how he...
by sjchurchadmin | Nov 20, 2016 | Pastor's Desk
A newspaper story some time back recorded the grim incident of a police officer shot and killed in the line of duty. His great desire before he was killed was to see his family’s back yard completely landscaped, a desire he never saw fulfilled, because of the...
by sjchurchadmin | Nov 11, 2016 | Pastor's Desk
The Temple of Jerusalem of Jesus’ time was the third Temple Solomon had built the first Temple in seven years. It stood for 370 years. It was first looted by an invading army. A decade later, in 586 BC, it was sacked and burned by the Babylonians. After the exile,...
by sjchurchadmin | Nov 4, 2016 | Pastor's Desk
As Vice-President, George Bush represented the U.S. at the funeral (November 15, 1982) of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev who had been the president of the USSR for 18 years. Bush was deeply moved by a silent protest carried out by Brezhnev’s widow, Mrs....
