Dear Church Family, This is my last Pastor’s Pen from all these years and I want to thank all of you especially those of you who have read these messages and those of you who haven’t I say, Oh, very well” because you can get really spiritual words of wisdom from other places. Of course, […]
…not the end, just an opportunity for a new beginning…
Pastor’s Pen Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 9, 2023 St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Well, here we are still celebrating after 31 years and they said it wouldn’t last six months! Well, I guess we proved them wrong on that point, didn’t we? So, as people of faith, we know that […]
Love Begets Love
Pastor’s Pen Time, July 2, 2023 13th Sunday in Ordinary St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Love Begets Love Our God is a God of Love, full of mercy and compassion and is infinite in all perfection (Catechism of the Catholic Church). In His Commandment to us, God said we have to love Him above all things, […]
Jesus’ Advance Man
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, June 25, 2023 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Yesterday The Church celebrated the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist and the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be six months from now. “Nativity” in this case, seems to have more […]
Father’s Day 2023
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, June 18, 2023 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family and especially All of the Fathers, To all of you who continue to do fathering, which includes myself, I just want to send a positive blessing message to all of you to be fathers who affirm, encourage, […]
The Most Holy Trinity 2023
Pastor’s Pen June 4, 2023 The Most Holy Trinity St. Augustine Catholic Church We are so glad to be able to worship our God once again and give Him thanks and praise for all He has brought us through for the past 31 years. Praise God! Alleluia!!I am really enjoying being able to bring you […]
Changes
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, May 28, 2023 Pentecost Sunday Dear Church Family, Here we are at last at the very challenging beginning of the Church of St. Louis. We are one of the 170+ church families in the archdiocese. With the shortage of priests and being burdened with a large number of […]
As the Apostles were looking on, Jesus was taken up
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, May 21, 2023 The Ascension of the Lord As the Apostles were looking on, Jesus was taken up (Acts 1:1-11) Brothers and Sisters, We are today happily celebrating the […]
Live to love and you’ll love to live.
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, May 14, 2023 Sixth Sunday of Easter St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Loving Church Family, This is the day that the Lord has made – Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Alleluia! A joyous Mother’s Day to all who do mothering and nurturing. This certainly includes all of us […]
You have faith in God; have faith also in Me…
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, May 7, 2023 Fifth Sunday of Easter St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, We come together today to celebrate our vocations whether they are to the single life, married life, religious life, or like me, the ordained life. We celebrate our vocation of growing deeper in love with the Lord and […]