Pastor’s Pen Sunday, September 18, 2022 Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, In today’s first reading, We hear the Prophet Amos condemning the people for trampling upon the needy and destroying the poor of the land, by fixing their scales for cheating and buying the lowly for silver and […]
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The Lord is truly your friend who you can talk with
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Times St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Today your pastor just wants to give you a couple of reflections. The first reflection, the book of Exodus gives a beautiful feeling of Moses’ intimacy with the Lord and how he can “talk turkey” and […]
…our hearts are restless until they rest in you
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, August 21, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Here we are coming to the end of our 30th anniversary in having special masses of St. Augustine as our patron. As you probably know, one of my favorite words of scripture and prayer is “Alleluia!” I even have it on my […]
The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy
Pastor’s Pen 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 24, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Brothers and Sisters, You must have come across this biblical psalm which says, “The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy” (Psalm 103:8). God, our creator and Father of us all, walks, as it […]
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding…
Pastor’s Pen Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 17, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church Martha and Mary – FINDING TIME FOR JESUS Dear Church Family, I feel awkward preaching to our church family about issues that I personally believe are already part of your daily life, but from time to time, we all need […]
Make peace by the blood of the cross
Pastor’s Pen July 10, 2022 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church Alleluia! Praise and really thank the Lord for thirty years of belonging with you and you with me. I do believe that over these thirty years we have grown in good spiritual ways. As the Lord today is telling […]
The harvest is abundant but the laborers are so few…
Pastor’s Pen July 3, 2022 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Jesus is such an awesome leader and certainly worthy to be followed! Amen! Imagine yourself being one of those seventy-two that he sent ahead of him to every town and place he intended to visit. You have […]
Holy Spirit of gentleness, patience, and love
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 26, 2022 Dear Church Family, Summer is finally here! Whoopee!! With graduations, weddings, picnics, and holiday celebrations we will have lots of opportunities to evangelize in the Spirit by being a little more human and loving and friendly and joyous and really […]
Feast of the Most holy Body and Blood of Christ
Feast of the Most holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Sunday, June 19, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church (Take this. It is my body. Take This. It is my Blood. As often as you do this, it is in memory of ME.) Today we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi which has other […]
Feast of Pentecost
Pastor’s Pen Feast of Pentecost Sunday, June 5, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, A joyous Holy Spirit Day in your spiritual journey, Alleluia!! The last couple of weeks I have imagined myself looking around the church and seeing people (I know most everybody), but I am looking around and seeing all of […]