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 […]
Archive | Ordinary Time
By your perseverance you will secure your lives
Pastor’s Pen November 13, 2022 Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church My Dear Church Family, I am writing this after our recent mid-term elections. We might say, “It is, what it is!” but we have hopes and aspirations that this will be a peaceful exchange of power in some cases and […]
Encourage your hearts
Pastor’s Pen November 6, 2022 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church My Dear Church Family, As I celebrate my 84th birthday, my 85th year of living in the Lord. I am encouraged to respond to the people that I meet when they ask me, “How are you doing?” I am telling […]
The Son of Man has come to seek and save what was lost.
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, October 30, 2022 Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Times St. Augustine Catholic Church The Son of Man has come to seek and save what was lost. My Brothers and Sisters, Our patron, Saint Augustine, in his famous book, “The Confessions …” said, “God, our Father, created us without our permission but cannot […]
Give me a clean heart, O Lord, and I will serve you
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, October 23, 2022 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, The theme of today’s readings centers on being concerned about the welfare of our neighbors and focusing less on ourselves. Jesus used very harsh words on hypocrisy and hypocrites, on people who were accustomed to drawing attention […]
Persistence in Prayer
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary time, October 16, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church Persistence in Prayer I am incredibly grateful for being able to write and preach on these readings. I have never been disappointed in prayer. In our first reading from Exodus, we hear of Moses sending out Joshua to defend Israel from Amalek. While […]
The Word of God is more than that which is written…
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, October 9, 2022 Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church My Dear Church Family The most important thing we can do in our existence and for our salvation is to believe in the Word of God. It makes no difference whether it is written down in the Bible or […]
Stir into flame the gift of God that you have received by being blessed
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, October 2, 2022 Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church My Dear Church Family, St. Paul proclaims to Timothy, “Stir into flame the gift of God that you have received by being blessed.” Each of us should feel that we are blessed because overall, we have enough to keep […]
You received what was good, Lazarus what was bad…
Pastor’s Pen Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sept. 25, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church “You received what was good, Lazarus what was bad; now he is comforted, whereas you are tormented.” Every Sunday or at any other time we gather at Mass, we listen to the Sacred Word of God from the Old […]
You are trustworthy, not only in small things but in big things
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, September 18, 2022 Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, In today’s first reading, We hear the Prophet Amos condemning the people for trampling upon the needy and destroying the poor of the land, by fixing their scales for cheating and buying the lowly for silver and […]