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 […]
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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, […]
You got to dig a little deeper
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, February 12, 2023 St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, The word of God today tells us to go deeper—to dig deeper into our minds and hearts, and souls so that we can follow Jesus all the more. In other words, one of the most important things we can do […]
Let your Light shine in the darkness
Pastor’s Pen Sunday,February 5, 2023 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, The theme of this week’s readings is Light. “Let your Light shine in the darkness. Don’t hide it under a bushel basket.” Light shines on us and from us sometimes in very humble ways and even then it […]
Humility and Poverty in Spirit
Humility and Poverty in Spirit Pastor’s Pen January 29, 2023, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church My Brothers and Sisters, Being Christ-like is the most important goal we can have in life. However, our society tells us that being beautiful and honored and wealthy should be our goals. We all have those […]
I am a new me!
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, January 22, 2023 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, I can remember back to a retreat I made in 1973 that has had an effect on me to this day. I told my friends and parishioners that “I am a new me!” As you […]
Evangelize, Evangelize, Evangelize
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, January 15, 2023 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Church Family, I like this passage from John 1:34, “Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.” It means a little bit more because our testimonies and stories about our faith journey […]
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Pastor’s Pen November 20, 2022 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe St. Augustine Catholic Church My Dear Church Family, Well church, once again we know our God is all in all. We call him King but maybe that does not mean too much to us who have lived in a democracy all […]