Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, April 26, 2020 Third Sunday of Easter My Dear Church Family, Reflect this week on your own roads to Emmaus. Sometimes our journey is really tough and with the Coronavirus pandemic we can really say, “Amen” to that. So, we have our own journeys, just like Cleopas and […]
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As the Father sends me, so I send you. Receive the Holy Spirit
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, April 19, 2020 Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy Deacon’s Corner I know that for many of our parishioners this has been a strange and somewhat lonely time. But for me, it has been a quieter time and has allowed me to give more of my […]
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
Pastor’s Pen Dear Church family, We long to celebrate the Lord’s risen life and victory in our daily living. Here we are Church, in a very unique situation. In all my life and in all my priesthood and also with you this Pandemic has really taken its toll, but we stay steadfast and the […]
Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the Highest!
Pastor’s Pen Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Dear Church family, Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the Highest! Those words are very uplifting to me because they symbolize the culmination of this season of Lent which to me has given to […]
The Sunday of Divine Mercy
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 […]
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 […]