Pastor’s Weekly Letter

To forgive other people is one of the most difficult things any of us will have to do.  If perhaps you don’t know that, it can only mean that you have never tried it.  Perhaps you’ve never been faced with that necessity.  Maybe your heart has never been broken.  Maybe you’ve never been cheated, or lied to, or insulted.  Maybe you’ve never suffered physical or psychological injury at the hands of careless, or worse yet, malicious people. If nothing like that has ever happened to you, let me assure you that you should be grateful; but you should also be […]

 Jesus once asked His disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”  Peter, as was often the case, spoke for the group: “You are the Messiah.”  You and I can hear those words with little or no emotion; but to those first disciples, they were dramatic beyond measure.  From the beginning they had taught, hoped, even dared to  believe that Jesus might be the long-awaited redeemer, spoken of by the prophets.  Now they were sure of it.  Then, at that very point, Jesus began to teach them that He had to suffer, be rejected by His own people, and die.  […]

Due to parish financials being published in this week’s bulletin, there will be no Letter From the Pastor.

            Does it appear to you that all of us are embroiled in that ongoing conflict between the old and the new?  Sometimes it seems that nothing ever stays the same.  Everything around us is in a constant state of transition.  The world is changing; our community changes; our home changes; the Church changes; even we, ourselves, change.  If you don’t believe that, well, go dig out an old high school or college picture.  Take a look at yourself then and compare it with the way you look now.             Change is a fact of […]

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and we begin the season of Lent.  It is a time for all of us to stop and to reflect and remember   Do you remember those days when you dreamed beautiful dreams?  You were thinking about the wonderful life that was waiting for your over there in the future.  Dreaming is a vital part of living.  Think how impoverished our world would be without dreamers.  Every great human accomplishment is nothing more than a dream come true.  The electric light was once a dream in the mind of Thomas Edison.  The Fifth Symphony was once a […]