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Bulletins Gospel Reflections Letters from Father

January 10, 2024

January 14, 2024 Bulletin & News

Peter was free because he was set free. At the heart of Peter’s story is not his own gifts and abilities; at the center is the encounter with Christ that changed his life. He experienced a love that healed him…

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January 4, 2024

January 7, 2024 Bulletin & News

Meeting Jesus Changes Us At the end of today’s Gospel, we hear that the wise men “returned to their own country by a different way.” On the surface, they took a “different way” in order to avoid Herod’s jealous wrath,…

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Bulletins Gospel Reflections Letters from Father

December 27, 2023

December 31st, 2023 Bulletin & News

Welcome God’s love into your home! I think that’s a pretty simple summary of today’s feast of the Holy Family. God the Son really entered our human family. In Nazareth, he learned to walk and speak, to labor and to…

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December 27, 2023

December 24th, 2023 Bulletin & News

The True Meaning of Christmas: Encountering Jesus in the Eucharist I had been an avid reader of books for many years before I discovered that many people start at the end. I was unfamiliar with the practice of reading the…

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December 13, 2023

December 17th, 2023 Bulletin & News

Jesus Christ reveals to us the truth about our identity. In today’s Gospel, crowds come to John the Baptist asking who he is. He answers by describing who he is in relation to Jesus Christ. “I am not Elijah...I am…

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Bulletins Gospel Reflections Letters from Father

December 13, 2023

December 10th, 2023 Bulletin & News

Preparing a Place for Jesus As we prepare for the celebration of Christmas, let us remember to make a place for Jesus in our homes. The Gospel passage of the Second Sunday in Advent always recalls the preaching of St.…

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November 29, 2023

December 3rd, 2023 Bulletin & News

Jesus Christ is the Lord of all. The new year of grace we begin this first Sunday of Advent is a sign that Jesus is Lord of our time and lives. Of all the calendars we observe – fiscal calendars, academic…

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November 22, 2023

November 26th, 2023 Bulletin & News

What essentially is the Mass? The Mass is the memorial of Christ’s Passover. It makes us participants in his victory over sin and death, and gives full meaning to our life. In the biblical sense, a “memorial” is “not merely…

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Bulletins Gospel Reflections Letters from Father

November 22, 2023

November 19th, 2023 Bulletin & News

God made you to be happy with him forever. And God made everything else to help you find your way to that happiness. Learning how to use everything this world offers as a way to grow in friendship with God is…

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November 12, 2023

November 12th, 2023 Bulletin & News

Do you recognize your longing for God? Longing expresses a deep desire that isn’t like the itch to go buy something or have a snack. It is a desire for happiness in a relationship. Sometimes longing is misdirected to shopping…

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Bulletins Gospel Reflections Letters from Father

November 2, 2023

November 5th, 2023 Bulletin & News

Offer It Up. I’m sure you’ve heard these words a thousand times. “Offer it up.” It’s sort of a shorthand way of saying, “stop your complaining,” “get over it,” “suck it up, buttercup.” But of course that’s not the first…

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Bulletins Gospel Reflections Letters from Father

October 25, 2023

October 29th, 2023 Bulletin & News

Why do we honor the Saints? If they are in heaven, what difference does it make to them to have a special feast day or prayers or devotions on earth? Bernard of Clairvaux gave a famous sermon that started with…

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