…from your Pastor’s Desk Whatever Happened to Limbo? Here’s the short answer: while Purgatory (with a very different feel and a thoroughly revised understanding) remains very much a part of Catholic teaching and belief, Limbo does not. Just check out the official Catholic Catechism – it has 2,865 paragraphs. Purgatory gets three paragraphs; Limbo gets zero – not even a mention! While…

…from your Pastor’s Desk Following Jesus In the Gospels of the last four Sundays we have been following the story of Jesus’ early career. He went to be baptized. Then he moved to Capernaum from Galilee when John the Baptist was killed, and there he chose his apostles (who somehow knew him as the one to follow). Last Sunday we heard part…

…from your Pastor’s Desk Seek The Lord At the very beginning of this day’s readings, we are told to seek the Lord. And then, gratefully, we are told how to do that. Both readings, the psalm and the Gospel, all come together to give a definition of how to seek the Lord. We seek the Lord by seeking justice and righteousness, by…

…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 Junior. To some of us 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…