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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD
Dear Church, The whole of existence is alive as never before because out of the graciousness and love of God the Father, His only begotten Son has been born to save us from our sins. The universe rejoices. BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD. In our first reading from the Prophet Isaiah, he proclaims, “Those who […]
I don’t just wish you a Merry Christmas, I wish that Jesus is central in your life…
Dear Church Family, Emmanuel means the Lord is with us. This is a Sacred Word in our readings today. It again reminds us of the atmosphere we created in this church and in our spiritual journeys. The Lord is near all the more! Enjoy that God is not only with us but He dwells within […]