If you cannot follow the house rules find your own house.” My eyes struck on those bold letters stuck to the fridge. As she realized that I was looking at it and wondering what it meant, she said “this is needed in a family where there are growing up teenagers. They think they are smarter … Continued

Dear Parish Family, We did a switcheroo of the dates of two big parish events, so please note it on your calendar!     “O Come, Let Us Adore Him” – now Friday, March 13 Called and Gifted Workshop – now Friday, March 20 and 21 Why the change?  Pope Francis is leading a day … Continued

God’s call is personal and at the same time very demanding.  It is an invitation to enter into His holiness with an attitude of faith and total trust in God. We encounter a God who speaks to us and we are called upon to listen to Him and respond to Him. Now as we enter the … Continued

Before Jesus’ public ministry, he went out to the desert for forty days of prayer and fasting.  We periodically need to take time to shed the excess in our lives, that is, the overabundance of activity and events that so consumes our time and focus that we forget about the most important thing in this … Continued

We began the season of Lent with the Ash Wednesday. There are forty days in lent excluding the six Sundays that occur between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. The number forty is a significant biblical number as we see the many important events happening in the” forty” period.  The first event that is mentioned in … Continued