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 […]
Love Begets Love
Pastor’s Pen Time, July 2, 2023 13th Sunday in Ordinary St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Love Begets Love Our God is a God of Love, full of mercy and compassion and is infinite in all perfection (Catechism of the Catholic Church). In His Commandment to us, God said we have to love Him above all things, […]
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 […]
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 […]