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Pastor’s Desk 01-17-2021
One day Francis of Assisi invited one of the young friars to join him on a trip into town to preach. The young friar was so honored at receiving such an invitation from St. Francis that he quickly accepted. They paused beneath a tree and Francis stooped to return a...
Bulletin 01-17-2021
Vatican Corner 01-10-2021
Most historians agree that the early Christians did not use lighted candles, torches or lamps during ceremonies for the first 3 centuries. They tried to avoid anything that might resemble the way Romans used lamps in their sacrificial rituals. But in the 4th century...
Pastor’s Desk 01-10-2021
Origin of baptism: Neither John nor Jesus invented baptism. It had been practiced for centuries among the Jews as a ritual equivalent to our Confession. Until the fall of the Temple in 70 A.D., it was common for Jewish people to use a special pool called a Mikveh --...
Bulletin 01-10-2021
Vatican Corner 01-03-2021
In a new book entitled “Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better Future,” Pope Francis avoids complex discussions of church doctrine and theology and instead tells stories from his own life, and gives his views on the crises facing the world, from the coronavirus, the...
Pastor’s Desk 01-03-2021
Little Amy was looking through the family album and found a picture of a man sitting behind a cow. All that was visible was the man’s legs and feet. When her photographer uncle who owned a photo studio came to visit her mother Amy told him, “This is the only picture...
Bulletin 01-03-2021
New Year’s Masses
Our New Year's Mass Schedule has Arrived!In-Person Parking Lot Masses: January 1st @ 9:00am (English) and 11:00am (Spanish)Livestreamed Masses: December 31st @ 6:00pm (Spanish) and 8:00pm (English) on our Facebook.Please join us in the Holy Celebration of the Blessed...
Vatican Corner 12-27-2020
In his new Apostolic Letter, Pope Francis describes Saint Joseph as a beloved father, a tender, loving, father, a father obedient to God, an accepting, and creatively courageous father, a working father, and a father in the shadows. The Pope’s letter was written...
Pastor’s Desk 12-27-2020
On what basis the Church began to celebrate Christmas on 25th December. It is based on the assumption that the annunciation of the birth of John the Baptist to Zachariah occurred during the feast of Yom Kippur, around September 25th, placing the birth of John after...
Bulletin 12-27-2020
Vatican Corner 12-20-2020
Everything known about Saint Joseph the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary comes from Scripture, and it is not a lot. The Gospels from Luke and Matthew both say Joseph was a descendant of David, the greatest king of Israel. The angel that first tells Joseph about...
Pastor’s Desk 12-20-2020
Years ago a psychologist named Thomas Holmes developed a scale for measuring stress. He assigned numerical values to events that cause stress such as the loss of job, moving to a new city, a new relationship. Dr. Holmes even included Christmas on his stress list. He...
Bulletin 12-20-2020
Vatican Corner 12-13-2020
At the Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square on Dec.6, 2020, Pope Francis said there is no pandemic or crisis that can turn off the light of Christmas. Referencing the Vatican’s recently erected Christmas tree and the Nativity Scene that is soon to be assembled,...
Pastor’s Desk 12-13-2020
Valesa – a Nightmare is a docu-drama which was written in Poland under a pseudonym and then smuggled out of the country. It tells the story of political prisoners like Lech Walesa. Near the end of the play a prisoner priest, who usually offers a solitary Mass, is...
Bulletin 12-13-2020
Vatican Corner 12-06-2020
Knelling before Pope Francis, one by one, at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica on November 28, 2020, eleven of thirteen senior churchmen, including two U.S. citizens, received their red biretta hat, cardinal ring and scroll, becoming new members of the...
Pastor’s Desk 12-06-2020
Being a *ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST* is ranked among the four most difficult "professions" in the world. This is because a ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST must be at the same time: Preacher, example, advisor, former, planner, minister, visionary, director, mentor, friend, nanny,...
Bulletin 12-06-2020
Vatican Corner 11-29-2020
The long awaited report, that was authorized by Pope Francis, about the defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, treated Francis rather lightly. The report explained that Francis assumed that his predecessors had made the correct judgments about McCarrick, and that...
Pastor’s Desk 11-29-2020
Anticipating the end of the world in 1975, twenty-four men, women, and children from Grannis, Arkansas, moved into one tiny house and waited there for ten months. The end did not come as they had expected, and they were evicted for not paying their rent. In 1986 a man...