July - 2021

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 Weekly Update: Sunday, August 1st

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Thanks to everyone who helped with the Elkhart County Fair parking fundraiser! It was great to see our parishioners working together to help our parish and the broader community. It was a big challenge but we came together and did it! I am especially grateful to the general coordinator of the project, Johnny Evangelista; Andrea Bodary, our summer intern from Notre Dame; and all the daily coordinators. And of course, the hundreds of parishi

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, July 25th, 2021

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Thanks to everyone who has helped so far with the Elkhart County Fair parking fundraiser! It has been great to see our parishioners working together to help our parish and the broader community. We will be out at the fair until Friday. There are probably still some slots to fill – call the parish office to sign up. Last Friday, news emerged from the Vatican that Pope Francis has made changes to the regulation of the Extraordinary Form (the

Sermon: Breaking Down the Dividing Walls

“For he is our peace, he who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of enmity, through his flesh.” Many times in the Bible, what we are likely to interpret as a generic comment, like St. Paul’s “dividing wall of enmity” today, actually refers to something very concrete. In this case, Paul is talking not just about the problem of divisions in general, but about a specific, physical wall in the Temple of Jerusalem. A certain portion of the Temple could be accessed by an

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, July 18

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Fr. Logan will be out of town Monday – Friday spending some time with his family. (I wrote last week that he would be gone for a few days but that turned out not to be the case!) I am very grateful that Fr. Andrew Hochstedler, OFM Conv. will be visiting as well and helping me with weekday Masses. Fr. Andrew is a convert to Catholicism and his family lives here in Goshen. He has helped here at St. John’s a few times the past four years and

Sermon: For What Have We Been Set Free?

Those of you lucky enough to have taken a class formerly known as “civics,” or who were paying particular attention in your American history or literature classes, might recall what was at one point the most famous sermon in American history: John Winthrop’s City on a Hill. Winthrop, who served as the first governor of the colony of Massachusetts and was the most politically influential of the Pilgrims, voiced in a powerful way the desire of the puritan settlers of New Englan

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, July 4th

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy Independence day! Since the holiday will be officially observed tomorrow (Monday), there will be one Mass in English at 9 a.m. preceded by confessions from 8:30 – 8:50 a.m. (our normal holiday schedule). Today we are thankful for all those who won the rights of freedom for our country. I think of my 5x great grandfather who fought in the Revolutionary War, and all those who continue serving our country in the military and civil servi