A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, It’s been a peaceful and fun week for me visiting relatives, family, friends and parishioners. I love you all and just feel so grateful that you were able to help me in so many, many ways to help many others. You did so much on your […]
Tag Archives | 2017
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT 2017
A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, A joyous Christmas Eve to all of you. I feel really good and at peace because it seems that all our gifting especially our own St. Vincent DePaul, our own St. Augustine Wellston Center and our own Father Bob’s Outreach of Food Baskets, all went […]
WHO ARE YOU?
Dear Church Family, The Importance of John the Baptist! WHO ARE YOU? Let us place ourselves in Jerusalem. Jesus has not yet arrived on the scene, but John is baptizing in the Jordan for repentance of sin. Scripture says all of Jerusalem and Judea and the area around the Jordan, all are coming out to […]
SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Dear Church Family, I surely like resting in the Sacred Words from Isaiah in our 1st reading, as we come up the center aisle today to receive the Sacred Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick in our struggles with health, mind, body or spirit. “Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God. Speak […]
Well done, good and faithful servant
A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, I can remember back in the 1980’s when we had an African American bishop named Bishop Terry Steib from the Divine Word Fathers in Mississippi and Louisiana. He very successfully went on to become the Bishop of Memphis. He has since then retired but he is noted […]
Stay sober and alert for ye know neither the day nor the hour
A Word from—Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, I can remember back in the 1980’s when we had an African American bishop named Bishop Terry Steib from the Divine Word Fathers in Mississippi and Louisiana. He very successfully went on to become the Bishop of Memphis. He has since then retired but he is noted for […]
No oil! No oil!
Dear Church Family, No oil! No oil! It has happened to me and it has happened to you. Your car light turns red and you are on the highway, out of town, or just about anywhere and right away you start getting concerned. You have procrastinated. You weren’t prepared. You wish you were ready and […]
I have come to serve, not to be served
A word from Deacon Ed Dear Church Family, The King of Kings will soon come as a peasant child. He will be born of parents who are simple and Holy. His birth will be in a stable and His crib will be a feeding trough for the animals. His life will be dedicated to […]
You shall love the Lord, your God…
Deacon’s Corner A word from Deacon Ed “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” We are promised this by Jesus. And in today’s Gospel, a Pharisaic lawyer tries to trap Jesus by asking Him which of the Commandments is most important. Jesus says, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all […]
Loving Everybody
A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, How did your imaging go last week of you crossing over into the Kingdom of Heaven and Jesus meeting you with His resurrection garment on? There was the image of Jesus embracing you with a strong hug. Then opening a door where there is a banquet prepared […]