A s you may know I am relatively new at being a pastor. I think it is a little bit like being married. You are the same person that you were...

T he Greek Cross (as it appears on the Greek flag) also known as St. George’s cross is the basis for several other crosses. It does not so ...

G reetings! I owe you one! I’m taking part of the day off to visit with family and don’t have enough time to do that, get things done around...

T here are exceptions to the rule of course but the primary place where the faith is handed on is not in Church or PSR/CCD or in the day sch...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: “Craps is fast and exciting; it is like flying. But falling is like flying too . . . for a while.” D...

O n Friday our facilities manager was going about the parish grounds making sure that everything was hunky-dory before he left on vacation –...

T he cross was not an instant hit as a Christian symbol. It took Christians time to overcome the “scandal of the Cross.” Further, as you mig...

O ne of the reasons for the reform of the Mass at Vatican II was to get rid of all of the various extra things that crept into the Mass ove...

P erhaps you hear it all the time: if you want more priests, pray for young men and seminarians. If you want better priests, pray for them i...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : “ H e who baptizes does one of the few things that is everlasting.” Fr. Benedict Groeschel CFR QUOT...

A s a seminarian there was a priest that I looked up to quite a bit . Once I told him how lucky his parishioners were and how loved he must ...

T his cross is a cross bottony and is used primarily in heraldry. “Bottony” means button or blossom. At the end of the four arms of the cros...

W e have a relatively new music ministry in the parish that is made up of mostly high school folk that sing worship and praise music. Before...

A t death the rule book goes out the window. The laws that we follows as Catholics are all about helping us lead a holy life – a life in whi...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : " P rogress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perp...