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From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, May 04, 2008
(Seventh Sunday of Easter)
In today’s gospel from John we hear Jesus’ asking his Father to bless “these men you gave me…they have kept your word…I entrusted the message you entrusted to me and they have ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, April 27, 2008
(Sixth Sunday of Easter)
We read in today’s gospel (John 14:15-21) what Jesus said before returning to the Father: “I will not leave you orphaned; I will come back to you…you will see me as one who has life, and ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, April 20, 2008
(Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Vatican Council II called on all Catholics to recognize and respond to their vocation to ministry. This call includes an invitation to lay people to participate in Church leadership. ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, April 13, 2008
(Fourth Sunday of Easter)
There is a tradition, newly revived, of specific Masses for specific purposes. There is, for example, the Red Mass for lawyers and the White Mass for health care workers and now we come to the Green ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, April 06, 2008
(Third Sunday of Easter)
The two disciples of today’s Gospel (Luke 24:13-35) did not recognize Jesus until after they heard him explain the scriptures and then broke bread with him. It was a two part process. First, ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, March 30, 2008
(Second Sunday of Easter)
Wasn’t it good to see so many people at the Easter Sunday liturgies? With the two masses at Sacred Heart and the two at Saint Brigid we counted some 3,000 people worshiping with us. It ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, March 23, 2008
(Easter Sunday)
Easter, for me, is always the hardest sermon to preach. I don’t mean that the theology escapes me. I believe that Jesus died and rose to new life. I believe that because he is risen ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, March 16, 2008
(Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion)
Every day we read the papers or see the news on television that someone has died. We witness, as it were, the horror of senseless killings of innocents and we are all stung by the inhumanity. ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, March 09, 2008
(Fifth Sunday of Lent )
Today the gospel is once again from John (11:1-45) concerning the raising of Lazarus. Last week we heard from John about the cure of the man born blind and Jesus declaring he is the light of the world, ...
From the Pastors Desk: Sunday, March 02, 2008
(Fourth Sunday of Lent)
Last Sunday the Gospel spoke of the Samaritan woman at the well and an encounter with Jesus. The theme was, of course, on water and was to get us to think about baptism and the renewal of baptismal vows ...
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