Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, December 20, 2020 Fourth Sunday of Advent Dear Church Family A joyous Christmas season to all of you. I feel really good and at peace because it seems that all our gifting, under the dramatic and drastic measures of Covid-19, especially our own St. Vincent De Paul, Wellston […]
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I will rejoice hardily in the Lord
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, December 13, 2020 Third Sunday of Advent Dear Church Family, With Isaiah I proclaim, “I will rejoice hardily in the Lord. In my God is the joy of my soul, Alleluia! He has robed me with salvation and wrapped me in a mantle of justice.” Then there is […]
We are all the work of your hands
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, November 29, 2020 Dear Church Family, Today is the beginning of our new church year where we are called to a closer walk with the Lord and we heard the prophet Isaiah say these words, “Oh, Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you are the potter. We are […]
It is so good to have family life
Pastor’s Pen Dear Church family, I like to call you my family because I share intimacies about my relationship with you and it is good that we support one another. It’s all about building family life in this Word of God, the Feast of the Holy Family. We ask the Holy Family to intercede for […]
Emmanuel-God is with us
My Dear Church Family, Celebration of thought from Father Bob as we enter the fourth Sunday of Advent prayer….. Even as we enter the busyness and the sharing of the Christmas baskets, which by the way went very nicely. We had the most difficult weather conditions that I can remember. With the help of our […]
Wonderful Preparation
Dear church family It is Gaudete Sunday! Rejoice! The color is pink or rose to symbolize Joy. Just think back to when a new baby came into your life and how you waited with joyful expectation and so we enter into the Blessed Mother’s feelings. As usual, we dedicate the second and third Sundays of […]
Instruct you in His ways that you may walk in His path
Pastor’s Pen First Sunday of Advent Dear Sojourners on the Journey, I would like to do something new or different during Advent time. Certainly, the Advent time for me is a time to read the Scriptures of the Day and reflect on them a little bit more just to try to do what the readings […]
Rejoice in the Lord always, I say it again rejoice!
Pastor’s Pen THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, we celebrate Gaudete Sunday which means “rejoice”. There is a powerful message of hope and rejoicing in the readings. The Prophet Zephaniah says, “Shout for joy, sing joyfully, be glad and exhort, […]
Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths…
Pastor’s Pen SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, One of my favorite images of Advent is that the Lord is coming. He will come in a very powerful way like a voice crying out […]
Advent Beatitudes are Advent Attitudes
Pastor’s Pen FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, Today we begin a new year in the church. We begin Advent which is a time of waiting and preparation for the coming of the Lord Jesus […]