Pastor’s Pen PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, As I sit in my favorite prayer chair on this Wednesday morning with the sun shining in on me, I reflect once again on this sacred journey I take with you each Lent. I also reflect on […]
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Sacrament of Reconciliation of Confession
Pastor’s Pen Homily: Create a Clean heart in me, O God (Ps 51) A Word from Fr. Chris Every year as the great feast of Easter approaches it’s always in our parish program, as we had it last week, for the priests to administer the anointing with holy oil to the faithful […]
God is so good all the time!
Pastor’s Pen FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, As you can see Fr. Bob is wearing rose or pink-colored vestments to symbolize Laetare Sunday which means rejoice. We are rejoicing today and proclaiming one of my favorite passages of scriptures. You have […]
He himself understood it well
A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, I was struck by the last sentence of the Gospel which says, “He himself understood it (human nature) well.” We see Jesus challenging all of us to have right attitudes toward putting the Lord first and His worship pure without a bunch of money matter things […]
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 2017
In our Gospel today, Christ heals the man born blind. Jesus tells His disciples that this man’s disability is not because of his or his parent’s sinfulness but rather to be able to show the goodness of God in Jesus’ healing of him. Oh, how we are always ready to accuse or blame or find […]
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT – 2017
Dear Church Family, You who are journeying with me in a special way during this Lenten Season I want you to know I really enjoyed the Gospel today. As we journey into this third week of Lent, in my reflection I have an interpretation that might be the right interpretation or just one of many […]
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT 2017
A word from Deacon Ed Father Bob’s homily this past Sunday centered on the word “longing”. Of course, the “longing”, refers to our longing to be one with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Our ultimate goal of being in Heaven is based on our achieving that longing. But the unstated and most incredible […]
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT 2017
A word from Fr. Bob Again we, as a Church Family, enter into the Sacred Season of Lent together. We proclaimed very strongly our dedication to making our faith more alive on Wednesday as we received the ashes. We also burned up the palms used for ashes, and we put in our promises of what […]
EASTER SUNDAY
Dear Church Family, A Joyous Easter to each of you!! He is Risen, Alleluia!!! May those ordinary words of greeting be very special to you today. As you probably know after 23 years and more that your pastor enjoys the word “Joyous.” I call you the Joyous Family of St. Augustine and I have put it […]
PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD
Spiritual reflections of Holy Week, starting with Palm Sunday Dear Family of St. Augustine, This is probably the 23rd or 24th year celebration of Palm Sunday with all of you. We have set up a tradition where we meet in the school yard. We bless palms and we began a procession according to Jesus’ triumphal […]