Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, September 27, 2020 Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Archbishop and the Joyful Family of St. Augustine, God is good all the time. All the time God is good. We especially feel that way when our chief shepherd comes to pray with us. In the 28 years […]
Not seven times but seventy-seven times
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, September 13, 2020 Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Times My Brothers and Sisters, In the African parlance before Christianity came, the slogan about forgiveness is limited to three times. In the Jewish milieu, it was seven times and no more. But in our Christian era, Christ has taught […]
Love is the fulfillment of the Law
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, September 6, 2020 Dear Church, It is all about “love” and that’s what we should do all of our lives, is to love one another. We have good directions proclaimed in all of our readings, especially in the second reading from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. He says, “owe nothing to […]
What does discipleship mean…
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 30, 2020 Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, Today we celebrate our 28th anniversary of St. Augustine as our spiritual leader. We really picked a good one twenty-eight years ago. It seems that today we have to give our all and all because that is […]
We must lead by love, of both God and man
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 23, 2020 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Times Deacon’s Corner Doing the will of God can be very difficult for some in today’s society because many have trouble relinquishing authority over themselves to others. Parents have trouble getting respect. Police have trouble getting respect. Teachers have trouble getting […]
Strive to have deep, deep faith…
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 16, 2020 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Times Dear Church family, Oh, Wonderful Blessed Mother! Yesterday we celebrated your great feast of your Assumption, body and soul into Heaven and so we know that as we continue our journey as disciples, which seems to be so many of […]
Lord, let me come to you
Dear Church family, If there is anyone besides our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, of a person in the bible that we really get an understanding of a human personality that person is St. Peter. It seems that we know more about Peter than any of the other people in the scriptures because of his […]
Getting Our Ducks In Order
Dear Church Family Fairly often I say in the spirit of humor, “I have to get my ducks in order”. We see the little ducks and ducklings, always in order. There is a beautiful getting of your ducks in order when we hear of Solomon taking God’s invitation to ask for whatever he wants. […]
Lord, May your kingdom come
Pastor’s Pen Lord, May your kingdom come Dear Church, I’m reflecting a lot on the phrase that we pray in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy kingdom come Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” We know, as the first parable tells us that there is a lot of evil around and we […]
…you are totally in charge!
Dear Family of St. Augustine, A Joyous 4th of July and prayers to make it a better world with better understanding of opening our hearts to the evils of racism and pray, pray, pray for a solution to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Very often I go to this most comforting passage of Jesus in […]