Dear Church Family, It was a wonderful delight to have the Joyous Family of St. Cronan come and worship with us last year. We welcome you again! Your visit was truly one of the highlights of our year. We enjoyed worshipping together and getting to know you from across the city and across racial lines. […]
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TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear Church Family, Those of us who are older adults do our annual physical where tests are carried out to find what things are in order in our body and where there are deficiencies which we must work on to ensure healthy living. This is similar to the man in the Gospel who approached Jesus […]
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
“Smell like the sheep” Pope Francis used this image challenging the Catholic community and all people to get down and dirty by loving, helping and entering into the many hurts and tragedies in our society. We find two stories, 1200 years apart, John telling Jesus that a man was casting out demons in His name. […]
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, More evil than ever, you hear these words and you probably agree there is so much evil. It comes to us on the news and in the newspaper. There is just so many tendencies for people to do evil things. Certainly when we talk about this […]
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
A WORD FROM FR. BOB Dear Church Family, I have decided to revisit the reason I put the Joyous Family of St. Augustine on my car nine years ago. I have a deep identity with all of you. Some of you know that I put lettering on my car and identified myself with you, […]
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
A WORD FROM FR. CHRIS Some of us, if not many have received care from a nurse in a health care center or elsewhere to treat our wounds or given a shot to alleviate our pain or blood drawn from us for a laboratory test. These things hurt but the giver does it very gently […]
TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear Church Family, A confusing word we hear in our theology is the word, “justification” which means that God gives us the totally free gift of faith, salvation and He saves us. At the same time while feeling His gift upon us, we are called to do good work. So we hear very challenging passages […]
TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
“Master to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” These are the words of Peter in today’s Gospel. Later he says, “We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” Wow!!! Peter and the other apostles have the gift of faith. In todays’ world, […]
TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear Church Family, I’m on vacation but we welcome our Missionary Priest who will tell us about his ministry. It is so good to be aware that we are a Universal Church. Certainly for over 50 years we have supported our on own missionaries sent to Bolivia and Chile. Today we welcome this fine missionary. […]
NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear Church Family, At Debra Lancaster’s home-going last Monday, we had so many people that wanted to give condolences. There were people from many different churches the Mormons, Pentecostals, Sanctified. Our dear Bea Logan had to get up and say, “We really have to cut the remarks to two minutes for sure.” This one bishop […]