Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, September 12, 2021 Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, Our readings for today give us some hard words where we are challenged to be a follower of the Lord. We have to take up our cross daily and follow Him, no matter what. We might even […]
Be strong, fear not! Here is your God and He comes to save you
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, September 5, 2021 Twenty-third Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, Notice the strong affection that the Lord has for everybody, especially putting on a pedestal the really broken people in life, the real poor. The profit Isaiah is proclaimed to say very strongly “Be strong, fear not! […]
Our hearts are restless until they rest in you
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 29, 2021 Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, OUR HEARTS ARE RESTLESS “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you”, is a teaching from St. Augustine. Centering ourselves in Christ is the simplest way to find peace because when we make Jesus the center […]
love each other as you love yourselves
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, August 22, 2021 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Church Family, Let us not forget as Children of God, we are also Servants of God. In the first reading, Joshua reminds the Israelite people (and us) just how great our God was and is and all the good things He continues […]
An Instrument of Peace
Dear Church Family, Today we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin which is for us a sign of great hope and victory of light, life, and love. Our Blessed Mother’s whole life was ‘an instrument of peace’ that was light, life, and love which paved the way for her to be […]
Persevere in His Words and His Way
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, July 18, 2021 Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church family, I see in the Word of God today a perseverance and an awe that God’s Grace works within all of us. Sometimes, maybe years later, a person will say, “I remember when you gave this or that […]
…go forth and spread the Good News of Jesus
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, July 11, 2021 Dear Church Family, Because of our baptism, we, like the Apostles and the prophet Amos, are called “chosen, beloved” to go forth and spread the Good News of Jesus’ coming with healing and love He is trying to convince us that that is the way to go. So in […]
My grace is sufficient for you. Power is made perfect in weakness
Pastor’s Pen for July 4, 2021 Dear Family of God, We have some of the most discouraging message and hard messages in the Word of God today. Starting with Jesus coming among his own people and performing miracles and helping them. At first they are really impressed, but then they start thinking, ‘Isn’t this Joseph […]
Our Savior, Jesus, destroyed death and brought light through to the Gospel.
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, June 27, 2021 Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Times Our Savior, Jesus, destroyed death and brought light through to the Gospel. Brothers and Sisters, Our first reading of this Mass tells us that death, which we know as a common phenomenon in our physical and material world, did not […]
Peace, be still!
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, June 20, 2021 Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, The sacred word of God today has to do with the magnificence of the sea from Joel talking about the vastness and the magnificence of all the miracles that go with seeing the sea as being claimed […]