Pastor’s Pen Dear Church family, I like to call you my family because I share intimacies about my relationship with you and it is good that we support one another. It’s all about building family life in this Word of God, the Feast of the Holy Family. We ask the Holy Family to intercede for […]
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Emmanuel-God is with us
My Dear Church Family, Celebration of thought from Father Bob as we enter the fourth Sunday of Advent prayer….. Even as we enter the busyness and the sharing of the Christmas baskets, which by the way went very nicely. We had the most difficult weather conditions that I can remember. With the help of our […]
Instruct you in His ways that you may walk in His path
Pastor’s Pen First Sunday of Advent Dear Sojourners on the Journey, I would like to do something new or different during Advent time. Certainly, the Advent time for me is a time to read the Scriptures of the Day and reflect on them a little bit more just to try to do what the readings […]
Rejoice in the Lord always, I say it again rejoice!
Pastor’s Pen THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, we celebrate Gaudete Sunday which means “rejoice”. There is a powerful message of hope and rejoicing in the readings. The Prophet Zephaniah says, “Shout for joy, sing joyfully, be glad and exhort, […]
Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths…
Pastor’s Pen SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, One of my favorite images of Advent is that the Lord is coming. He will come in a very powerful way like a voice crying out […]
Advent Beatitudes are Advent Attitudes
Pastor’s Pen FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, Today we begin a new year in the church. We begin Advent which is a time of waiting and preparation for the coming of the Lord Jesus […]
THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH
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 […]
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 […]