Image featured:The colonnade of St Peter’s reaches out to embrace those coming to the church This is the first in an occasional series of reflections on the parts of the mass “Enter, rejoice and come in Lift up your hearts …
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With Pentecost and the end of the Easter season, the Church enters Ordinary Time. The name comes from the Latin word for order or counting, not the modern sense of the word as plain or “ordinary.” These are the weeks …
The parish office will be closed on Wednesday, June 7. All Admin staff will be in training that day.
This weekend after each Mass, join us in the cafeteria for some fellowship and a treat. On Saturday, we’ll have some light snacks while you catch up with each other. On Sunday, we’ll have our regular Donut Sunday with donuts, …
This quote from the prophet Isaiah was the title of the Vatican assessment of the synod reports of the various continents of the earth. It named concerns about groups on the margins of the church and called us to make …
When the Holy Spirit comes we will be clothed in δυναμις, Jesus says. Dunamis is the Greek word for power. I wonder how many of us think of a prayer for the coming of the Spirit as a prayer for power. How many …
I love those words from the Acts of the Apostles because they could just as easily apply to the church in our own day as to the early church. In Acts it refers to what happened when the Gentile Christians …
Native Americans in feathered headdress as finials at the American College in Leuven In looking over the pastor assignments that were announced this week I noticed something that was quite a bit different than when I was first ordained. …