Dear Church Family, This is my last Pastor’s Pen from all these years and I want to thank all of you especially those of you who have read these messages and those of you who haven’t I say, Oh, very well” because you can get really spiritual words of wisdom from other places. Of course, […]
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…not the end, just an opportunity for a new beginning…
Pastor’s Pen Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 9, 2023 St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Well, here we are still celebrating after 31 years and they said it wouldn’t last six months! Well, I guess we proved them wrong on that point, didn’t we? So, as people of faith, we know that […]
The Most Holy Trinity 2023
Pastor’s Pen June 4, 2023 The Most Holy Trinity St. Augustine Catholic Church We are so glad to be able to worship our God once again and give Him thanks and praise for all He has brought us through for the past 31 years. Praise God! Alleluia!!I am really enjoying being able to bring you […]
Changes
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, May 28, 2023 Pentecost Sunday Dear Church Family, Here we are at last at the very challenging beginning of the Church of St. Louis. We are one of the 170+ church families in the archdiocese. With the shortage of priests and being burdened with a large number of […]
Live to love and you’ll love to live.
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, May 14, 2023 Sixth Sunday of Easter St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Loving Church Family, This is the day that the Lord has made – Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Alleluia! A joyous Mother’s Day to all who do mothering and nurturing. This certainly includes all of us […]
You have faith in God; have faith also in Me…
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, May 7, 2023 Fifth Sunday of Easter St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, We come together today to celebrate our vocations whether they are to the single life, married life, religious life, or like me, the ordained life. We celebrate our vocation of growing deeper in love with the Lord and […]
His mercy endures forever
Pastor’s Pen – Sunday Sunday of Divine Mercy, April 23, 2023 St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, all is mercy today, Church, as we say, Lord have mercy; Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy on me and all of your children. Jesus comes with a message in the three scripture […]
That wonderful gift that the Lord gives us of Himself
Pastor’s Pen Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Risen, Spirited family of God, The Lord has Risen and we have the victory of victories! Alleluia!! We have the victory of Jesus dying and rising from the dead for us so that when we die, we will rise eternally, forever to […]
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and life…”
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, March 26, 2023 Fifth Sunday of Lent St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, On Ash Wednesday, during the giving of ashes, one of the prayers the minister prays as he gives each person the ashes is, “Repent and believe the gospel”. We can see that belief is necessary for salvation […]
The Sacrament of Healing
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, March 19, 2023 Fourth Sunday of Lent St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, All week long continue to pray for one another for whatever healings, (physical, spiritual, relationship) are necessary because we will be celebrating the Sacrament of healing especially for the sick. But sometimes we are sick in different ways. […]