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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]