Letter from the Pastor

Many thousands of people, caught in the grasp of some personal tragedy, have said, or least thought: “If God will do so, He can cure me.”  When trouble comes and  human solutions fail, most of us think of God.  And our first reaction is the same as that of many people – if God were so inclined, He could solve this problem and set things right. But we are well aware that most personal tragedies do not turn out with a happy    ending.  I have known, and so have others, that many people prayed for a deliverance that never came.  […]

Christians of practically all the major denominations accept the Nicene Creed as a valid profession of their faith.  Those who recite this creed in their Sunday worship service, as we Catholics do, will easily remember that in it we profess our faith in “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.”  Not only the Church itself, but also its unity, its holiness, its catholicity, and its apostolicity are the  objects of our faith. In other words, we believe that the church is not a merely human organization, and therefore subject to inevitable decay and dissolution, like the great empires of world history; […]