Honoring Our Blessed Mother, Mary
In keeping with the month of May, I thought it might be helpful to reflect together on the role of Mary in our Christian life. It is important for us, as Catholics, to know our faith with regard to Mary, for our protestant brothers and sisters are very concerned about [...]
Investing in Our Relationship With God
This past Saturday the parish staff celebrated the wonderful volunteers of our parish with the annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. It was a great celebration to honor those who have so graciously given their time throughout the year. We had parishioners in attendance who participate in liturgies, assist in the office, [...]
Eye Opening Experiences
Alleluia! The Easter season and spring are fully upon us! Much of nature has been dormant through the dark and cold of winter, preparing itself to grow and flourish in the warmer days of spring. We, too, have spent the days and weeks of Lent reflecting on our lives as [...]
Our Lord’s Divine Mercy
When I heard a few months ago that Chris Tomlin would be giving a concert in Minneapolis, I began a vigilant search for ticket information. Those who know me know that his is a kind of music that has been instrumental to my developing faith, and the form of prayer [...]
Christ is Risen! He is Risen!
Dear friends, On this long awaited Easter Sunday I wish you and your families a blessed Easter. May we know more fully within our own hearts the everlasting Joy and Peace of the Risen Christ. And may your children and grandchildren, little nieces and nephews, also know the added joy [...]
Giving Our Suffering As Sacrifice
Why is there suffering in this world? The answer to this is much more complicated than most of us can comprehend, let alone answer in a weekly bulletin article. But we definitely all have known suffering, in some way. It is a reality for every person, day in and day [...]
The Heart of Lent
Last weekend, during all the masses, our choir lead us in a beautiful praise & worship song called “The Heart of Worship” by Matt Redman. In that song, we are called to make sure that when we come to worship our God, that we are focused on Him and not [...]
Finding Happiness in Our Lenten Journey
There is something tremendously appealing about the season of Lent. This may seem counter-intuitive to some of us. We can ask ourselves why it is we find such happiness in a stretch of time that invites us to take a hard look at what in our lives keeps us from [...]
Deepening Our Relationship with God During Lent
I had a conversation a while back with a friend, who is Christian but not Catholic, proclaim to me that the Catholic Faith was not biblically based. This person went on to say that many Christians base their Sunday services on a particular passage from the Bible and that many [...]
The Great Gift of God’s Mercy
My dear friends, Lent is a Season of Mercy; a time to experience anew the merciful love of God in the places where we feel weak; and at the moments when we fall or struggle with temptation. It is at such moments when we need God more than ever. This [...]
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