Pastor’s Weekly Letter

For six days a week – Monday through Saturday – we live our lives in a highly competitive world.  Nations compete for power.  Politicians – as we have seen recently – compete for votes.  Business competes for customers.  Workers compete for jobs and promotions.  Athletes – like the Mets and the Yankees – compete for victories.  All of us, it seems, are competing with someone for something that both of us want but only one of us can have.  That is how most of us live six days a week.  Then on Sunday we come to church at Annunciation-Our Lady […]

                 If you were asked to sum up your life to this moment in one brief statement of twenty-five words or less, how would you do it?  What would you say?                 Think about that for a moment.  You have been living now for fifteen years, fifty years, or however long it’s been.  Those years have contained a combination of good and bad, success and failure, fulfillment and disappointment.  Now you want to summarize them in one brief statement.  How would you go about doing that?                 Admittedly, it would not be easy […]

You and I are living in a forward-looking time.  Adventure and progress are the themes of the day.  Individuals and groups are breaking out of old forms and moving ahead into what they hope will be a bright new day. Though we are sometimes frightened by this rapid change, we dare not sit in total condemnation of it.  A lot of things needed to be changed for a long time.  But in days such as these, we should also recognize that there is a danger of throwing overboard some valuable cargo that ought to be kept.  So, in the midst […]