Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 18, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church Behold the Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son: They shall call his name Emmanuel, meaning God is with us (Matt. 1:28-24) Dear Church Family, In history, popular men and women have their beginnings and ends recorded for posterity to read, learn, and sometime […]
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The Son of Man has come to seek and save what was lost.
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, October 30, 2022 Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Times St. Augustine Catholic Church The Son of Man has come to seek and save what was lost. My Brothers and Sisters, Our patron, Saint Augustine, in his famous book, “The Confessions …” said, “God, our Father, created us without our permission but cannot […]
You received what was good, Lazarus what was bad…
Pastor’s Pen Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sept. 25, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church “You received what was good, Lazarus what was bad; now he is comforted, whereas you are tormented.” Every Sunday or at any other time we gather at Mass, we listen to the Sacred Word of God from the Old […]
I have come not to establish peace, but division.
Pastor’s Pen 20th Sunday in Ordinary time August 14, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church I have come not to establish peace, but division. Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire and how I wish it were already blazing! …Again, “do you think that I have come to establish […]
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 […]
Feast of the Most holy Body and Blood of Christ
Feast of the Most holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Sunday, June 19, 2022 St. Augustine Catholic Church (Take this. It is my body. Take This. It is my Blood. As often as you do this, it is in memory of ME.) Today we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi which has other […]
I give my sheep eternal life.
Pastor’s Pen Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 8, 2022 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church I give my sheep eternal life. My Sisters and Brothers, Jesus Christ, our Lord, used ordinary images known to mankind to describe what He is likened to with us. He called Himself, The light, “I am the Light of the world.” This […]
Lenten Reflection from Father Chris
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, March 13, 2022 Second Sunday of Lent Lenten Reflection from Father Chris Dear Church Family, Last week through some sort of snafu, we were deprived of Fr. Chris’ very instructive words to us regarding Lent. Well, thanks be to God, here it is! My brothers and sisters, […]
Blessed are you when people hate you…
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church February 13, 2022 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Church Family, During every Sunday and on weekday celebrations of the Mass, we listen to the Lord speaking to us in the Scriptures through the prophets or from Christ Our Lord, Himself. The Prophet Jeremiah proclaimed that complete and […]
Prepare you the way of the Lord, make straight His paths.
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, December 19, 2021 Fourth Sunday of Advent Who am I that the Mother of my Lord should come to me? The Fourth Sunday of Advent brings the Advent Season to an end. The fourth candle of the Advent wreath will be lit and at the end of Mass, […]