Pastor’s Pen Sunday, August 28, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Joyous Church Family, Last week your pastor got so excited about our feast day that he wrote the following pastor’s pen. So, I am glad to share these words with you again because I feel that it gives us a special view of our […]
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…our hearts are restless until they rest in you
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, August 21, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Here we are coming to the end of our 30th anniversary in having special masses of St. Augustine as our patron. As you probably know, one of my favorite words of scripture and prayer is “Alleluia!” I even have it on my […]
I have come not to establish peace, but division.
Pastor’s Pen 20th Sunday in Ordinary time August 14, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church I have come not to establish peace, but division. Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire and how I wish it were already blazing! …Again, “do you think that I have come to establish […]
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen
Pastor’s Pen August 7, 2022 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Times St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Parish Family, St. Paul in his letter to the Hebrews says,” Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” To simplify St. Paul, let us just say, Jesus I Trust in You. Trust […]
Our hearts are restless until they rest in you
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 29, 2021 Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, OUR HEARTS ARE RESTLESS “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you”, is a teaching from St. Augustine. Centering ourselves in Christ is the simplest way to find peace because when we make Jesus the center […]
love each other as you love yourselves
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, August 22, 2021 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Church Family, Let us not forget as Children of God, we are also Servants of God. In the first reading, Joshua reminds the Israelite people (and us) just how great our God was and is and all the good things He continues […]
What does discipleship mean…
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 30, 2020 Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, Today we celebrate our 28th anniversary of St. Augustine as our spiritual leader. We really picked a good one twenty-eight years ago. It seems that today we have to give our all and all because that is […]
We must lead by love, of both God and man
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 23, 2020 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Times Deacon’s Corner Doing the will of God can be very difficult for some in today’s society because many have trouble relinquishing authority over themselves to others. Parents have trouble getting respect. Police have trouble getting respect. Teachers have trouble getting […]
Strive to have deep, deep faith…
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, August 16, 2020 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Times Dear Church family, Oh, Wonderful Blessed Mother! Yesterday we celebrated your great feast of your Assumption, body and soul into Heaven and so we know that as we continue our journey as disciples, which seems to be so many of […]
Lord, let me come to you
Dear Church family, If there is anyone besides our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, of a person in the bible that we really get an understanding of a human personality that person is St. Peter. It seems that we know more about Peter than any of the other people in the scriptures because of his […]