August - 2020

Sermon: The Death Chosen for You (Passion Sunday, March 26th, 2023)

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

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Pastor's Message: Mental Health and the Pandemic

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Instead of my usual news and updates, I would like to use my message this week to share with you some information from a report by the Centers for Disease Control on the state of some critical aspects of mental health in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report was released on August 14th and covers data collected June 24-30. The results are shocking: Increasing prevalence of adverse mental or behavioral health conditions 40.9% of

Pastor's Message: August 23, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today we welcome Fr. Tony Pizzo, O.S.A. and Fr. Jim Halstead, O.S.A. from the Midwest Augustinians. Fr. Tony and Fr. Jim will share with us about the Augustinians’ missions in Peru. I hope that everyone will respond generously to their mission appeal. This is a great opportunity to assist those in need and support the work of the universal Church. I am away this weekend celebrating my mother’s, sister’s, and sister-in-law’s birthdays. Mom

Pastor's Message: August 16, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today we welcome back our children for religious education. We have been working hard to prepare and I am so grateful to our religious education coordinators, catechists, and parents for their dedication and flexibility. Formation for the sacraments continues to be our first priority following the celebration of the sacraments themselves as we safely and carefully adapt parish life to the new circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has

Pastor's Column: August 9, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, You may recall that Bishop Rhoades’s general dispensation of all the faithful from the obligation to attend Holy Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation originally extended until August 15th. Bishop Rhoades has announced that this dispensation will now be extended until November 1st – unless further developments determine otherwise. It is good for us to consider why the Bishop has extended this dispensation even though we are able to c