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Pastor’s Column – Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 13, 2020

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ 09/13/2020 Sir 27:30-28:7, Rom 14: 7-9, Mt 18:21-35   Dear sisters and brothers,   What happens within us when we don’t forgive? Let me give you an example: A lady was having a discussion with her sister about some important business matter when her well-educated daughter entered the room [...]

By |2020-09-11T09:46:33-05:00September 11th, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column – Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 6, 2020

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time                                           09/06/2020 Ez 33:7-9, Rm 13:8-10, Mt 18:15-20     Dear sisters and brothers,   One of the most difficult things in life is correcting another person.  Yes, there are people who seem always to be correcting others—but that type of person rarely has any lasting success. What the Lord God [...]

By |2020-09-04T10:25:13-05:00September 4th, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column -Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 30, 2020

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time     08/30/2020 Jr 22:19-23, Rm 12:1-2, Mt 16:13-20   A Fire In My Bones Recently a friend sent me an extremely moving YouTube video. Arrayed like a gallery of individuals in a Zoom meeting (I trust everyone knows about Zoom by now!) were thirty or forty young musicians. They were obviously [...]

By |2020-08-28T13:41:57-05:00August 28th, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column – Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 23, 2020

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time  Is 22:19-23, Rm 11:33-36, Mt 16:13-20   Who Do You Say You Are?   The question Jesus poses in today’s gospel is not a pop quiz for the disciples. Since it comes half-way through Matthew’s Gospel, at a critical turning point, we might be tempted to think Jesus is giving [...]

By |2020-08-21T11:28:30-05:00August 21st, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 16, 2020

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time   Is 56:1, 6-7, Rm 11:13-15, 29-32, Mt 15:21-28   My sisters and brothers in Christ, Today the readings give us teaching about non-Jewish people being redeemed.  For most of us, that is something that we have always believed.  But we need to remember that this was a new idea for [...]

By |2020-08-14T09:49:43-05:00August 14th, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 9, 2020

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary time               08/09/2020 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a, Romans 9:1-5, Matthew 14:22-33   Dear sisters and brothers,                 Meghan is a wife, mom, and nurse. She is a devout catholic who shares in the ministry of her parish community as a lector. When she tested positive for the novel coronavirus, she was visibly [...]

By |2020-08-07T11:03:12-05:00August 7th, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column – Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 2, 2020

Isaiah 55:1-3, Romans 8:35, 37-39, Matthew 14:13-21   GENEROSITY, ABUNDANCE, EXTRAVAGANCE Not Counting Women and Children, the words in the last line of today’s Gospel, is the title of a book by theologian and storyteller Megan McKenna. What this line might mean, McKenna, proposes, is that the number Jesus fed in that deserted place on [...]

By |2020-07-31T10:21:05-05:00July 31st, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 19, 2020

Wis 12:13, 16-19, Rm 8:26-27, Mt 13:24-43 Dear sisters and brothers, The Letter to the Romans tells us in the second reading today: “we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.”  That is pretty strong!  Because our world is so messed up, we are often [...]

By |2020-07-15T16:19:12-05:00July 15th, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments

Pastor’s Column – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 12, 2020

Isaiah 55:10-11, Romans 8:18-23, Matthew 13:1-23   Dear brothers and sisters, A family was on vacation, and as they rode down the highway there was a big sign that read: Road Closed. They maneuvered around the sign and continued on. Suddenly the road ended and there was an even larger sign: “What part of ‘Road [...]

By |2020-07-10T12:05:46-05:00July 10th, 2020|Fr. Valery, Front Page|0 Comments