Pastor’s Pen A Word from Fr. Chris The Second Sunday of Easter (C): The Sunday of Divine Mercy Divine Mercy Sunday is celebrated today, the second Sunday of Easter. It is a feast promulgated in the Church by Pope St. John […]
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Easter 2019
Pastor’s Pen EASTER 2019 A word from—Father Bob Dear Risen Spirited Family of God, The Lord has Risen and we have the victory of victories! The victory of Jesus dying and rising for us so that when we die, we rise eternally, forever to be with the Lord. also our spirit will continue in […]
The Good Shepherd
Dear Family of Saint Augustine, It is Good Shepherd Sunday. It is one of my favorite images of Jesus who just does His job with ordinary people, extraordinarily well like you who have been a parent or a grandparent, maybe a teacher or nurse or a counselor whatever you have done in your life. You […]
Get real, get real!
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Family of Saint Augustine, You have heard the expression and have probably used it yourself in discussions with people, “Get real, get real!” Maybe you can imagine as in the gospel today, Jesus appearing to His apostles and they are shocked and stunned. He […]
Jesus I trust in you
Pastor’s Pen A Word from Fr. Chris Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you forgive they are forgiven and whose sins you retain, they are retained. (John 20:22-23) The second Sunday of Easter offers us some points of reflection on the Resurrection story of Jesus Christ. Firstly, this Sunday which brings us to […]
Easter 2018
EASTER SUNDAY A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Wonderful Alleluia Family, One of our alleluia church family members, Kenny Hearndon, our former maintenance engineer says, “After I get out of church, I keep on churching”. That means there is an afterglow to what happens at church. Maybe it’s much more than an afterglow because […]
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
Dear Church Family, Let’s do something different this week in our private spiritual prayer time. Just rest in a couple of words from the Gospel and see what reflections they give you. The first words are “our hearts burning” we all know as teenagers and even pre-teens that we have some favorite person in our […]
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (SUNDAY OF DIVINE MERCY 2017)
Dear Church Family, Resurrected people in their attitude, “that’s you, my dear heart,” are this way. Alleluia is your word of awareness of everything that is good and a blessing, especially notice anyone that is manifesting Resurrection Spirit. “My dear heart,” last Wednesday a man came for energy assistance with no hands but he was […]
EASTER SUNDAY 2017
Dear Risen Church Family, I allowed myself to be engulfed with wonderful spiritual feelings of joy, victory and hope, even in the mist of all the trouble in our society and in our lives. The other night I entered into the Passion of Christ by watching historically the struggle of African Americans in the Pre-Civil […]
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
To you Church Family members, to all of your families and friends, may you have a spirit filled Holy Week. We start today with the waving of the palms, giving praise and honor to God. With proclamation of the Passion we will start meditating on what our Lord has done for us. He sacrificed His […]