Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, October 3, 2021 Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, In the first reading, (Genesis 2:18-24), God created the beautiful example that He put before us of a man and woman leaving parents and everyone else as they join themselves together becoming one flesh. They totally […]
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Be strong, fear not! Here is your God and He comes to save you
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, September 5, 2021 Twenty-third Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, Notice the strong affection that the Lord has for everybody, especially putting on a pedestal the really broken people in life, the real poor. The profit Isaiah is proclaimed to say very strongly “Be strong, fear not! […]
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 […]
My grace is sufficient for you. Power is made perfect in weakness
Pastor’s Pen for July 4, 2021 Dear Family of God, We have some of the most discouraging message and hard messages in the Word of God today. Starting with Jesus coming among his own people and performing miracles and helping them. At first they are really impressed, but then they start thinking, ‘Isn’t this Joseph […]
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, June 6, 2021 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Dear Church Family, We celebrate a miracle almost every day at the Family of St. Augustine when at mass we say Jesus’ words that He proclaimed for us to repeat, “This is My Body, this is My […]
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, May 30, 2021 The Most Holy Trinity Sunday Dear Church Family, A simple but most profound prayer is, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”. Just that simple prayer, reminds us of the great intimacy we have with our […]
We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, April 18, 2021 Third Sunday of Easter Dear Church Family, The Pastor will be out of town for a few weeks on vacation. I write this Pastor’s Pen on the wonderous gift of Himself for us and how He comes to us in the breaking of the bread. […]
He will give us a feast
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, October 11, 2020 Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear church family, Today’s message is about having a Mountain Banquet and responding to God’s invitation for total union with Hi. All of these are symbols of God loving us and providing for us. Many times we use as […]
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 […]
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 […]