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 […]
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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 […]
Make peace by the blood of the cross
Pastor’s Pen July 10, 2022 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Catholic Church Alleluia! Praise and really thank the Lord for thirty years of belonging with you and you with me. I do believe that over these thirty years we have grown in good spiritual ways. As the Lord today is telling […]
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 […]
Persevere in His Words and His Way
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, July 18, 2021 Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Church family, I see in the Word of God today a perseverance and an awe that God’s Grace works within all of us. Sometimes, maybe years later, a person will say, “I remember when you gave this or that […]
…go forth and spread the Good News of Jesus
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, July 11, 2021 Dear Church Family, Because of our baptism, we, like the Apostles and the prophet Amos, are called “chosen, beloved” to go forth and spread the Good News of Jesus’ coming with healing and love He is trying to convince us that that is the way to go. So in […]
My grace is sufficient for you. Power is made perfect in weakness
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 […]
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 […]