News - December 2019 RSS Feed
-
December 22, 2019Blessings of peace and joy to each of you. Welcome to the fourth week of advent. Two Sundays ago, I officially mentioned the creation of Mary’s Prayer Garden at St. John. I waited for the 8th of December to announce it to coincide with the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mother. The prayer garden, while not being new, has been relocated from its former location around the rectory to the east end of the church. From its current location, one can conspicuously see the beautiful statue of “Our Lady of Fatima” from Highway 30 and from the upper parking lot.Read More -
December 17, 2019The question this week was, “what do we believe?” We meet right after mass, so it’s easy to recognize what we believe as Catholics – our mass and certainly, what we say in our creed during that mass. Yet, the Catechism of our church is almost 700 pages long and the Bible is almost three times that!Read More
-
December 8, 2019Blessings of peace and joy to you. Welcome to the second week of advent. A man appeared before a judge for failing to keep the child support responsibility for his two-year-old boy. And when the judge asked him why he had failed to support the child, he answered, “The boy doesn’t look like me.” Then the judge responded, “If so, take care of him till he looks like you.”Read More
-
December 1, 2019Welcome to the holy season of Advent. God has begun another holy year with us; and once again, let’s travel hand in hand with each parishioner through the new liturgical year. Remember that this Advent season is the start of the liturgical Year A (Cycle A). You know that there are three liturgical years or cycles. We just ended the Year C, during which our Sunday liturgy focused primarily on the Gospel of Luke.Read More
See More
