November 14, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – November 17, 2024

There is a sense in which every area of life places upon us a category of demands, a minimum set of duties which we are required to meet.  An employee is expected to show up for work at a particular time, remain on the job a certain number of hours, and do certain things while he is there.  To meet these demands is his duty.  He’s expected to perform at least at this level. The same thing is true of family life.  To be a father or a mother, a husband or a wife demands that certain minimal duties be […]
November 7, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – November 10, 2024

I received this article a few years ago and I thought it was worthwhile passing it on to you once again! “Did you see where Bill Graham’s daughter was being interviewed on the Early Show a few days ago about September 11th terrorist attack, and Jane Clayson asked her “How could God let something like this happen?” Ann Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response, “I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of government and to get […]
November 1, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – November 3, 2024

It seems to me that our church, in the remaining years of the 21st century, has a golden opportunity to make the gospel real and relevant to a world that is weary of wars, terrorism, bondage, weary of emptiness, and increasingly weary of moral degradation.  It is a time when we should prepare ourselves to be the church at its best.  We must remind ourselves that the world is ready now for the message of God’s love, delivered by people like ourselves who demonstrate that loyalty in their own lives.  A large part of the world’s population has been in […]
October 24, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – October 27, 2024

One of the pet words of our day is tolerance.  It is a good word, but we have tried to stretch it over too great an area of life.  Sometimes we have applied it too often where it does not belong. Tolerance, in one sense, implies the compromise at times of one’s convictions, a yielding of ground upon important issues.  Hence, over-tolerance in moral issues has made us soft, and could leave us devoid of conviction. We have become tolerant about the use of drugs or alcohol; we have become tolerant about wickedness in high places; we have become tolerant […]
October 17, 2024

Letter From the Pastor – October 20, 2024

ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Remarks of Robert P. George, Professor of Princeton University – National Catholic Prayer Breakfast The days of socially acceptable Christianity are over. The days of comfortable Catholicism are past. It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic witness to the truths of the Gospel. A price is demanded and must be paid. There are costs of discipleship— heavy costs. Of course, one can still safely identify oneself as a “Catholic,” and even be seen going to mass. That is because the guardians of those norms of cultural orthodoxy that […]