March - 2019

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 26th

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 19th

Drawn to Repentance and Conversion -- Sermon for III Sunday in Lent

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 12th

Original sin, boredom, and the empire of empty desire (Sermon for the First Sunday of Lent, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, February 26th

Loving Our Enemies (Sermon for Sunday, February 19, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, Februrary 19th

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, February 12th

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, January 29

Archive

Sermon: Improve Your Conversation with God by Adding Silence

Fr. Royce's Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent on March 24th, 2019. Fr. Royce focused on making silence part of your prayer habit. Listen here: “For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.” St. Paul writes today about a radical transformation of the human person. God allowed his Son to “become sin” for us – taking on the greatest effect of sin, that is, death – so that we might be transformed into the right

Praying with Scripture

Tuesday March 26 was our third session in our Lenten Series on prayer. This week focused on encountering Jesus in the Word. Listen here:

Sermon: Encountering God through Sacred Scripture

Fr. Royce's Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent on March 24th, 2019 focused on why it is important to encounter Christ in His Word, the Sacred Scriptures. Listen here:

Prayer in the Midst of Suffering

Tuesday March 19 was our second session in our Lenten Series on prayer. We continue to explore how to Meet Jesus in our everyday life. Last week, we started by discussing Mass, the most common prayer experience of any Catholic. We looked at how the Mass is primarily prayer between the Father and the Son, which they invite us to participate in and we gave some practical tips to enter into that prayer between the Father and the Son. You can listen to those at this link: htt

Sermon: Giving God One Percent

For the second week of our series on prayer, we focused on what prayer is really all about -- a relationship with God that changes us, not Him. Many people have responded to the challenge to give God one percent of their day in prayer through our One Percent Challenge. Learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/388934915017051/. Listen to the sermon here:

Sermon: True Prayer at Mass

It is rather late this year, but we have finally begun the holy season of Lent, this intense time in the Church’s life when we dedicate ourselves to what is most important: coming back to the Lord with our whole hearts through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. The first of these three ancient Lenten disciplines, prayer, is our central theme for the observance of Lent this year. (Based on the last couple of weeks I can understand how you might have thought it was going to be al

Praying at Mass

Tuesday was the official beginning of our Meet Jesus Lenten initiatives. We hosted the first of four sessions for our Lenten Series. Our focus for the Lenten Series is how to meet Jesus in prayer. As James tells us in his letter: "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." We all long for the experience of God and His love for us. But too often, we don't sense that He is close to us. We don't experience his love in our hearts. Our goal for the Lenten Series is to

Lenten Message from Bishop Rhoades

We are pleased to share with you the Lenten Message from our shepherd, His Excellency, the Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of Fort Wayne - South Bend: Lenten Message of Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades Jesus’ words in the passage from the Sermon on the Plain, which we hear in this Sunday’s Gospel (Luke 6:39-45), offer us important counsel as we begin the season of Lent. First of all, Our Lord says: “No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will

Lent 2019: the 1% Challenge

Here is our last installment detailing our Lenten Initiatives, the 1% Challenge. The 1% Challenge comes from a group in Wisconsin called Evangelical Catholic. They offer this challenge to any parish who is interested in the members of the parish deepening their relationship with Jesus. The 1% Challenge is simple: a 30-day challenge to spend 15 minutes of prayer each day with the Bible. Let’s explore this challenge. Why a 30-day challenge? The challenge is 30 days becaus

Family Morning of Recollection

This is our third blog post in regards to our 2019 “Meet Jesus” themed Lent. Our focus now turns to the March Morning of Recollection on Saturday, March 16. We have hosted two mornings of Recollection thus far, one in September and the other December. The first two were for men and women respectively and focused on prayer. Our upcoming March morning of recollection will be for families, one of the first family initiatives in our parish that allows for parents and children