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Bulletin 06-09-2019
Vatican Corner 06-01-2019
For centuries, charity efforts, both large scale and small, have been part of Catholic tradition. In 2005 Pope Benedict XVI wrote: âFollowing the example given in the parable of the Good Samaritan, Christian charity is first of all the simple response to immediate...
Pastor’s Desk 06-01-2019
A beautiful old story tells of how Jesus, after his Ascension into Heaven, was surrounded by the Holy Angels who began to inquire about his work on earth. Jesus told them about His birth, life, preaching, death and Resurrection, and how he had accomplished the...
Bulletin 06-01-2019
Vatican Corner 05-12-2019
Modern Canon law defines heresy as the âobstinate denial or doubt, atier baptism, of some truth to be believed with divine and Catholic faith.â In other words it is the violations of important Catholic teachings. In the Catholic Church there is much dark history tied...
Pastor’s Desk 05-12-2019
Everyone, it seems, is interested in my numbers. I go to the grocery store to buy some groceries. After the checkout woman rings up my bill, I pull out my checkbook and write out the check. She takes it from me. She looks at the information. Numbers tell her where I...
Bulletin 05-12-2019
Vatican Corner 05-05-2019
con nued ⌠Investigators so far believe that the terrible fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was an accident and not intentionally set. About 50 investigators are questioning people, including restoration workers, and are searching the charred ruins for...
Pastor’s Desk 05-05-2019
Fr. Mark Link S.J. once told an incident that happened during the great depression (AD 1929-1939). Jobs were scarce, and when an opening was announced, dozens of applicants applied. On this particular occasion, they crowded into a waiting room, eager to be interviewed...
Bulletin 05-05-2019
Vatican Corner 04-28-2019
In Paris on April 15, 2019 a devastating fire burned Notre-Dame de Paris (âOur Lady of Parisâ) the famous 856 âyear old Gothic cathedral, and one of the most recognizable churches in the world. The fire broke out just before 7 pm. local time and by 8 pm. the spire...
Pastor’s Desk 04-28-2019
The TIME Magazine January 9, 1984 cover showed a prison cell where two men sat on metal folding chairs. The young man wore a blue turtleneck sweater, blue jeans and white running shoes. The older man was dressed in a white robe and had a white skullcap on his head....
Bulletin 04-28-2019
Holy Week 2019
Information Regarding this year’s Holy Week
Vatican Corner 04-14-2019
Pope Francis visited the Kingdom of Morocco on the weekend of March 30, 2019, continuing to build bridges between Chris ans and Muslims. He met with Moroccan King Mohammed VI and together they signed an appeal for Jerusalem. The appeal recognized the âuniqueness and...
Pastor’s Desk 04-14-19
Constantine the Great was the first Christian Roman emperor. His father Constantius I who succeeded Diocletian as emperor in 305 A.D. was a pagan with a soft heart for Christians. When he ascended the throne, he discovered that many Christians held important jobs in...
Bulletin 04-14-2019
Vatican Corner 04-07-2019
With his apostolic letter of March 29, 2019, Pope Francis established new legal procedures to better protect minors and vulnerable adults within the Vatican City State. While there are few minors living in the Vatican, there are minors in the Sistine Chapel Choir, in...
Pastor’s Desk 04-07-2019
Dr. A.J. Cronin was a great Christian physician in England. One night he assigned a young nurse to a little boy who had been brought to the hospital suffering from diphtheria and given only a slight chance to live. A tube was inserted into the boy's throat to help him...
Bulletin 04-07-2019
Pastor’s Desk 03-31-19
Mohandas K. Gandhi, "the Father of the Nationâ in India, in his famous autobiography, My Experiments with Truth, writes about his own experience of theft, confession and forgiveness as a schoolboy. âI was fifteen when I stole a bit of gold out of my brother's armlet...
Bulletin 03-31-2019
Vatican Corner 03-10-2019
When the worldâs bishops get together for meetings now-adays, they no longer communicate with each other using just one common language - Latin, as they once did. Back in the early 1960s Latin was the primary language they knew and used together. However, even in...
Pastor’s Desk 03-10-2019
A mother camel and her baby are talking one day and the baby camel asks, âMom, why have we got these huge three-toed feet?â The mother replies, âTo enable us trek across the soft sand of the desert without sinking.â âAnd why have we got these long, heavy eyelashes?â...