Pastor’s Pen Sunday, September 18, 2022 Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, In today’s first reading, We hear the Prophet Amos condemning the people for trampling upon the needy and destroying the poor of the land, by fixing their scales for cheating and buying the lowly for silver and […]
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The Lord is truly your friend who you can talk with
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Times St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Today your pastor just wants to give you a couple of reflections. The first reflection, the book of Exodus gives a beautiful feeling of Moses’ intimacy with the Lord and how he can “talk turkey” and […]
St. Augustine
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, August 28, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Joyous Church Family, Last week your pastor got so excited about our feast day that he wrote the following pastor’s pen. So, I am glad to share these words with you again because I feel that it gives us a special view of our […]
…our hearts are restless until they rest in you
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, August 21, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Here we are coming to the end of our 30th anniversary in having special masses of St. Augustine as our patron. As you probably know, one of my favorite words of scripture and prayer is “Alleluia!” I even have it on my […]
Vanity of Vanities! All things are vanity!
Pastor’s Pen 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 31, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Dear Church Family, August is just around the corner and that means school, and everything gets back in order, but I still want to have a little more fun. Maybe a little more vacationing, getting together with family and friends, or […]
The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy
Pastor’s Pen 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 24, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Brothers and Sisters, You must have come across this biblical psalm which says, “The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy” (Psalm 103:8). God, our creator and Father of us all, walks, as it […]
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding…
Pastor’s Pen Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 17, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church Martha and Mary – FINDING TIME FOR JESUS Dear Church Family, I feel awkward preaching to our church family about issues that I personally believe are already part of your daily life, but from time to time, we all need […]
The harvest is abundant but the laborers are so few…
Pastor’s Pen July 3, 2022 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Jesus is such an awesome leader and certainly worthy to be followed! Amen! Imagine yourself being one of those seventy-two that he sent ahead of him to every town and place he intended to visit. You have […]
Holy Spirit of gentleness, patience, and love
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 26, 2022 Dear Church Family, Summer is finally here! Whoopee!! With graduations, weddings, picnics, and holiday celebrations we will have lots of opportunities to evangelize in the Spirit by being a little more human and loving and friendly and joyous and really […]
The Most Holy Trinity
Pastor’s Pen The Most Holy Trinity June 12, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church Dear Church Family, Let’s say, “Happy Birthday God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Dear God, Dear Holy Trinity, we don’t understand you and don’t know everything about You but we celebrate You as being God all by yourself and by being God […]