Letter from the Pastor

November 1, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – November 3, 2024

It seems to me that our church, in the remaining years of the 21st century, has a golden opportunity to make the gospel real and relevant to a world that is weary of wars, terrorism, bondage, weary of emptiness, and increasingly weary of moral degradation.  It is a time when we should prepare ourselves to be the church at its best.  We must remind ourselves that the world is ready now for the message of God’s love, delivered by people like ourselves who demonstrate that loyalty in their own lives.  A large part of the world’s population has been in […]
October 24, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – October 27, 2024

One of the pet words of our day is tolerance.  It is a good word, but we have tried to stretch it over too great an area of life.  Sometimes we have applied it too often where it does not belong. Tolerance, in one sense, implies the compromise at times of one’s convictions, a yielding of ground upon important issues.  Hence, over-tolerance in moral issues has made us soft, and could leave us devoid of conviction. We have become tolerant about the use of drugs or alcohol; we have become tolerant about wickedness in high places; we have become tolerant […]
October 17, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – October 20, 2024

ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Remarks of Robert P. George, Professor of Princeton University – National Catholic Prayer Breakfast The days of socially acceptable Christianity are over. The days of comfortable Catholicism are past. It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic witness to the truths of the Gospel. A price is demanded and must be paid. There are costs of discipleship— heavy costs. Of course, one can still safely identify oneself as a “Catholic,” and even be seen going to mass. That is because the guardians of those norms of cultural orthodoxy that […]
October 10, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – October 13, 2024

From the beginning of time, the devil has tried to mislead us.  He often succeeded.  Adam is the best example, but he seems to be particularly successful in our day and age.  Our permissive age and our consumer society seems to have given into the temptation that it is by bread alone that a human being lives – bread signifying food, pleasure and all that is material.  Many seem to believe that economic well-being is all that matters.  There are many Christians who are more excited by Paradise on Earth than the Lord’s Kingdom of Heaven.  We often fault Sigmund […]
October 3, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – October 6, 2024

We fool ourselves if we think that society in the last 2000 years has fallen in step with the teachings and values of Jesus.  Go into the boardroom of most any major   corporation and try to convince the board of directors that people are more important than profits.  How far do you think you would get?  Certainly, no farter than first base, and it’s doubtful you would even get up to bat.  Go to Congress or the Senate and argue there that housing and jobs and education and the respect for all human life at all its stages should take […]