Dear Family that I love, Since I am on this Lenten journey with you, I am going to give you a little message. I remember Fr. Jeff asking the kids at our school, St. Louis Catholic Academy this question, “What do you have a hard time waiting for?” Everybody presented a “Can’t Wait” quote. Whether […]
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OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE
Dear Church Family, We come again to the end of the church year. We celebrate our Lord as a mighty, mighty God, an awesome God and a loving God, in the form of Jesus, who by His crown of thorns, symbolizing His suffering, death and giving His life totally for all the evil in the […]
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear Church Family, I am a very proud Padre celebrating my 77th birthday. I want to be in reckless abandon and I am praying for the grace to somehow figure out how to grow spiritually in what I would like to term as a new phase of my life. There is so many wonderful things […]
THIRIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear Church Family, The Gospel today tells us the blind man, Bartimaeus, wants what all of us certainly want “physical sight.” “Lord I want to see.” This passage is backed up by the promises that blessings will always be ours if we turn to the Lord. We hear Jeremiah blessedly reassuring the people of his […]
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, I have decided to revisit the reason I put the Joyous Family of St. Augustine on my car nine years ago. I have a deep identity with all of you. Some of you know that I put lettering on my car and identified myself with you, […]
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear Church Family, What an inspirational story of Jesus’ love for the little people and even the more important people. If Jesus includes all of them certainly we are in that number also. As I proclaimed last Sunday, it is so good to be in Jesus’s boat and to be able to let go because […]
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 […]
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 […]