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From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, June 13, 2010  (11th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Hospitality is a very strong duty in the Mediterranean region.  I could never out-do the hospitality my relatives show me when I visit them in Rome or Gaeta.

Recently returning to read the Odyssey of Homer I noted ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, June 06, 2010  (The Most Holy body and Blood of Christ)

This feast, once called Corpus Christi, asks us to renew our faith in the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.  It is at the Last Supper that Jesus ritualized the actions he would take the next day.  On Holy Thursday, as High ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, May 30, 2010  (The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity)

Jesus commanded his disciples to baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).  We were baptized into two communities, the Trinity and the Catholic Church.  We entered into two ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, May 23, 2010  (Pentecost)

Father Baldovin wanted to share with both parishes the homily he gave on May 16th at the 5:00pm Liturgy at St. Brigid Church

These last few weeks of Easter we’ve been hearing ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, May 16, 2010  (Seventh Sunday Of Easter)

In today’s Gospel (John 17:20-26) we come to Jesus’ departure priestly prayer.  “And now Father I am coming to you.  I have told them many things while I was with them so that they would be filled with my ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, May 09, 2010  (Sixth Sunday of Easter)

Robert Munch wrote a book about his mother in a children’s book called Love You Forever, you’ve probably read it. A mother held a newborn baby, very slowly rocked him back and forth and ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, May 02, 2010  (Fifth Sunday of Easter)

We continue our Gospel reading from John, but this time we are not post resurrection, but at the Last Supper.  Jesus wants to prepare his apostles and disciples for his departure and for the events of his passion and death in the ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, April 25, 2010  (Fourth Sunday of Easter)

The Gospel today (John 10:27-30) has Jesus proclaim, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” There is a promise attached to belonging to his flock, “I give them eternal life, and they shall never ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, April 18, 2010  (Third Sunday of Easter)

Peter was always the disciple who could not stand by and do nothing.  Jesus told the disciples to stay and wait for the Holy Spirit who would teach them everything they needed to know and strengthen them to carry on Jesus’ ...

From the Pastor's Desk: Sunday, April 11, 2010  (Second Sunday of Easter)

Just a week ago the whole family gathered together to celebrate Easter.  Both churches were filled to capacity. But here we are, one week later, and most have fallen back into our predictable patterns of living even as we endeavor to ...

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