February 13, 2025

Letter From the Pastor – February 16, 2025

The early fathers of the Catholic Church compiled a list of what they called “the seven deadly sins.”  Number one on that list was the sin of pride.  I doubt that you and I would have done it that way.  We may recognize that pride is indeed a sin, but most of us would not think of it as the first and worst of the deadly sins.  I can think of at least three sins that most of us consider to be more serious than the sin of pride – murder, adultery, and stealing. And is there not a sense […]
February 13, 2025

Month’s Mind Mass for Msgr. John J. Farley – February 22, 2025

February 12, 2025

Blood Drive – February 23, 2025

February 6, 2025

Letter From the Pastor – February 9, 2025

I read an old story about a New Englander and his son who were fishing in the Atlantic, off the coast of Maine.  They had been at it all day, and the sun was sinking low in the west.  A storm was moving in and the waves were building higher.  The boy, partly afraid of the storm and partly tired and hungry, was ready to go home.  He said to his dad, “Papa, right now mother is probably  praying for our safe return.”  The father understood and said with a smile, “You’re right; I’ll hold the rudder while you run […]
January 30, 2025

Letter From the Pastor – February 2, 2025

Heartbreak always presupposes love.  Others can stir our resentment, kindle our wrath, cause inconvenience, bring disappointment; but the only person who can break our heart is the person we love.  All of which says that love is indeed a risky business.  It makes us vulnerable.  And God has chosen to take that kind of a gamble with you and me. To be estranged from, lonely for, out of fellowship with the one you love, that is a basic element of sorrow.  You don’t go in sacred scripture until you run into that – the loneliness of God.  The book of […]