Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, September 27, 2020 Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Times Dear Archbishop and the Joyful Family of St. Augustine, God is good all the time. All the time God is good. We especially feel that way when our chief shepherd comes to pray with us. In the 28 years […]
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Not seven times but seventy-seven times
Pastor’s Pen St. Augustine Catholic Church Sunday, September 13, 2020 Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Times My Brothers and Sisters, In the African parlance before Christianity came, the slogan about forgiveness is limited to three times. In the Jewish milieu, it was seven times and no more. But in our Christian era, Christ has taught […]
Love is the fulfillment of the Law
Pastor’s Pen Sunday, September 6, 2020 Dear Church, It is all about “love” and that’s what we should do all of our lives, is to love one another. We have good directions proclaimed in all of our readings, especially in the second reading from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. He says, “owe nothing to […]
Don’t be complacent! Observe, be aware and act!
Pastor’s Pen Dear Church Family, I think I’m living a very comfortable life and I think most of the time we are blessed by being so fortunate and thankful. So, the emphasis today is to observe, be aware and act. Listen to Amos speaking of the rich people who don’t even care and […]
God will forgive no matter what
Dear Church Family, With sad hearts and sorrowful memories, we again remember the events of 9/11 eighteen years ago. This is a very sacred day in our memory. It made us all so aware that there were a great number of people in the world who wanted to kill us and throw the whole world […]
Lord, take over, please
Pastor’s Pen Church Family, The Lord has spoken to us in very powerful language this Sunday. The book of Wisdom also tells us that we must put God first in our lives and let go of all that is not of the Lord. We hear also in the second reading of Paul’s letter to […]
Whoever is not against us is for us
Pastor’s Pen A Word from Fr. Chris Homily: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time “Whoever is not against us is for us” (Mark 9:38-41) I wish to thank each of you for your prayers and good wishes for my successful surgery. I am now on my road […]
Fill your mind with thoughts about the Lord every morning…
Pastor’s Pen NINETEENTH 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 news-paper. There is just so many tendencies for people to do […]
Walk the walk
Pastor’s Pen A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, Building on the image I gave you last week from St. Bernard in the 12th century, I challenge you, like he suggested, to be a reservoir filled with God’s love. Then you will always have an overflowing to give […]
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice
Pastor’s Pen A Word from Fr. Bob Dear Church Family, Probably as most of you know especially on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we have morning and evening prayer and reflections on the day’s Sacred Scriptures. The book we use is called “Give Us This Day”. We pray these prayers every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday […]