Dear Church Family, I pray for all our Mothers, living and deceased. We thank the Lord for all the ways they have mothered us. As a result of receiving love we give love, especially Mothers giving love to their children. Alleluia! Some of my favorite passages of Scriptures are in these Sacred Readings today. I […]
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FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Dear Church Family, Last Sunday afternoon your pastor had a wonderful experience riding his bike on the Kathy Trail in Defiance, Missouri outside of Saint Charles. We ended at a vineyard and we sat in a wine garden and sipped a little of the vintage. You can look out at the hills and see a […]
Good Shepherd’s Sunday – FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Dear Church Family, On Good Shepherd’s Sunday, every year Church Family, as I celebrate Mass and look out at you I am also looking up into the choir loft and there is my image of the Good Shepherd. For the last 23 years it has become all the more meaningful to me as the Good […]
Resurrection Moments – THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
Resurrection Moments Dear Church Family, One joyful way of praying is to imagine yourself in the stories of the Resurrection. Enter into the feelings of the characters in the Gospel account. Like today, I am with Peter, James, and John, the other disciples, the Blessed Mother and some of Jesus’ special spiritual women friends. All […]
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (SUNDAY OF DIVINE MERCY)
Dear Church Family, Today is Mercy Sunday! Alleluia! I am sure glad that I have reconfirmed, in the last 10 or so years, this celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday. Certainly we already know that God is filled with pure love and mercy. He wants to do whatever He can to forgive us and welcome us […]
EASTER SUNDAY
Dear Family of God here at St. Augustine and guests, Alleluia! Alleluia! You probably know your pastor is an Alleluia person. When he can’t say Alleluia during Lent, it is hard for him. He has a hard time catching himself. The emotions of joy, bright colors, candles, Easter lilies, daffodils, tulips and anything that symbolizes […]
PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD
Dear Church Family, This is the 23rd year of our Palm Sunday Procession. Almost every year we have been able to go outside start in the yard, walk around the church, sing “Right On King Jesus No Man Can Hinder Me” and just have a good spiritual experience. Every year I try to really make […]
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Dear Church Family, I write this pastor pen on last Wednesday, reflecting and very much and praying in an intense way for everybody that received the Sacrament of Anointing to be strengthened and healed in many, many ways. Thank you for being open to celebrating this Sacrament of Anointing for your physical, emotional, psychological, and […]
Fourth Sunday of Lent
John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The Lord loves each one of us and we go on our life’s journey trying to be aware that we are specially chosen. By freewill we accept […]
Third Sunday or Lent
Dear Church Family, The weather outside is frightful but as I say over the phone, “Fr. Bob is so delightful, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” Now and then I am inclined to sing that song over the phone, hopefully, to cheer people on, if they don’t hang up on me . […]