…from your Pastor’s Desk MID-WAY. No, not the WWII battle or the Aircraft Carrier. This Thursday you will be mid-way through Lent 2024. How is it going? Have you been able to maintain your Lenten resolutions? I find myself doing a series of ‘re-starts’. I think God is okay with that. We do the best we can. But you may be asking…

…from your Pastor’s Desk “10 Things to Remember for Lent” Remember the formula. The Church does a good job capturing certain truths with easy-to-remember lists and formulas: 10 Commandments, 7 sacraments, 3 persons in the Trinity. For Lent, the Church gives us almost a slogan—Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving—as the three things we need to work on during the season. It’s a time…

…from your Pastor’s Desk Realigning Our Priorities All of us have, at one time or another, named certain things as our “priorities”. From time to time, when we become aware of our not doing something that is really important, we say, “I have to make that a priority.” Lent is an important time to do a top-to-bottom review of what we value…

…from your Pastor’s Desk This Wednesday we have a fascinating conflation of days. Wednesday is both Valentine’s Day, a special day of special recognition of our loved one[s] and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Holy Season of Lent – the time we change our lives for the better in preparation for the Most Holy of days – Easter Sunday. I remember…

…from your Pastor’s Desk As I re-read this bulletin – I see a lot of reminders of the rules…let us not forget why we follow them. Let our motivations be pure. It’s not sufficient to know the rules, let us live them — understanding the spirit in which these rules were fashioned. Let us allow God’s spirit to penetrate our being so…

…from your Pastor’s Desk How to Overcome the Darkness of Anxiety -Speak with the authority and humility of a Child of God.-Have a place where you belong and can pray.-Have people in your life who call you their kin or neighbor.-Find good or Holy ways of keeping anxiety far from your person so you may live fully for the greater Glory of…

…from your Pastor’s Desk A.M.A. Annual Ministry Appeal. I want to start by assuring you that not a single penny of the monies collected go to any legal defense or settlements. All monies collected go only to the specific ministries mentioned in the informational packet. That being said, the A.M.A. is something you are very familiar with. For many years Holy Spirit…

…from your Pastor’s Desk John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr.. To some reading this, these names bring back memories of personal experiences during the turbulent times of the sixties and seventies; the start of the Civil Rights Movement, the Catholic Worker Houses and the beginning of the changes that are still in process today to make this country one…

…from your Pastor’s Desk Three Magi, Three Gifts for the Child-King If I asked you to think of the three worst things you ever did in your life, even if you didn’t want to admit them, you could come up with them pretty quickly – certainly one of them – instantly. Now – If I asked you to think of the three…

…from your Pastor’s Desk We are on the verge of another year. Hard to believe that Monday will be 2024! It also means that we have another Holy Day to celebrate! A very special feast day. Monday was Christmas, today is the feast of The Holy Family. This coming Monday, we celebrate: ‘Mary, The Holy Mother Of God’ – the most ancient…