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 […]
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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 […]
Getting Our Ducks In Order
Dear Church Family Fairly often I say in the spirit of humor, “I have to get my ducks in order”. We see the little ducks and ducklings, always in order. There is a beautiful getting of your ducks in order when we hear of Solomon taking God’s invitation to ask for whatever he wants. […]
Lord, May your kingdom come
Pastor’s Pen Lord, May your kingdom come Dear Church, I’m reflecting a lot on the phrase that we pray in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy kingdom come Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” We know, as the first parable tells us that there is a lot of evil around and we […]
…you are totally in charge!
Dear Family of St. Augustine, A Joyous 4th of July and prayers to make it a better world with better understanding of opening our hearts to the evils of racism and pray, pray, pray for a solution to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Very often I go to this most comforting passage of Jesus in […]
Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, June 28, 2020 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Times Dear Church Family, I’ve been resting in the first four sentences of the gospel reading because they are particularly challenging to understand all the way. They are certainly an overemphasis but the point that I understand is that He […]
Why not “Go Big, Go Broke, Go Home!
Pastor’s Pen Dear church family, Our worship centers on the main theme of our lives and that is Love and doing it more and that is what’s holy. We have within us God’s holy spirit. We are temples of the Holy Spirit. I have been reflecting and challenging you to reflect on the feeling that […]
That’s It!!
Pastor’s Pen Dear Church, Expression-two words: That’s It! That’s It! That’s it! Once you hear those words you know that you have come to a conclusion and you feel a new enlightenment—Alleluia!! That’s It! Is that all scripture is inspired by God, and that scripture is capable to giving you wisdom for salvation and […]
A Chance for Forgiveness
Pastor’s Pen Dear Church Family, The words of the Sacred Scripture that really impressed me was the last words of the gospel. “If you then, who are wicked know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” […]