……from the Pastor’s Desk “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” To understand today’s Gospel we must look back to a time in our lives when, in retrospect, we see that something, or someone we wanted, and didn’t get – turned out to be the very best in the long run. Garth Brooks…

……from the Pastor’s Desk “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” “He’s a man, he’s just a man,” sang Mary Magdalene in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.It is one answer to the question, Who is Jesus Christ? “We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ’n’ roll or Christianity,” said John Lennon of…

……from the Pastor’s Desk Food for Dogs? Sunday’s Gospel can give a headache both to preachers and to people in the pews. Jesus refuses to hear a woman because she is, in his metaphor, one of the “dogs.” OUCH. You know the story. The Canaanite woman cries out for help and Jesus at first will not even talk to her. The disciples…

……from the Pastor’s Desk Where do you find God? Only in church? Only while praying? Only in times of need or distress? Only in those we expect to be holy or pious people? Too often we look to great people and to the events in our lives to find God, as if our encounters with God have to meet certain standards and…

MACHAKOS DIOCESE INFORMATION The Diocese of Machakos was one of the largest in Kenya until July 22, 2023 when the Holy Father Pope Francis created Wote Diocese by carving out Makueni County from Machakos Diocese. The Machakos Diocese now has a population of 1,421,932 of which 610,150 are Catholic. It has 117 diocesan priests and 22 religious priests. Though smaller in size,…

……from the Pastor’s Desk Prayer for Grandparents Lord Jesus,you were born of the Virgin Mary,the daughter of Saints Joachim and Anne.Look with love on grandparents the world over.Protect them! They are a source of enrichmentfor families, for the Church and for all of society.Support them! As they grow older,may they continue to be for their familiesstrong pillars of Gospel faith,guardians of noble…

……from the Pastor’s Desk We are a story telling people and we come from a story telling faith, and we get it from the Man Himself. We know that Jesus was the Master story-teller, and He often used a form called a “parable,” in which a truth is compared to something very familiar. Last Sunday we had the Sower and the seeds.…

……from the Pastor’s Desk Start up your time-machines or jump into your DeLorean – because we are going ‘Back To The Future’. Here is an excerpt from our Parish bulletin dated July 13, 2014. Which was, coincidentally, the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A – just like this weekend. And which, coincidently, was the first weekend of my assignment here. So……

……from the Pastor’s Desk “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,for I am meek and humble of heart;and you will find rest for yourselves.For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Today’s Gospel should give us comfort when we feel down and out. If we…

…from your Pastor’s Desk The Love of the Lord In the Gospel Reading, Jesus seems to recommend an inhuman attitude: you are not to love your mother or father or your child more than Jesus. In fact, you are not to love your own life more than Jesus. If you do, you will lose what you love. What does it even mean…