Letter from the Pastor

     Worry is one of the common denominators of our human race.  It’s a   universal tendency that cuts across all human boundaries.  Young, old, rich, or poor – to some extent every one of us is a worrier.  Some of us do it more, some less: but we all do it. And there is a sense in which worry is understandable. We are living in a dangerous and uncertain world. We are presently involved in a war against terrorism. Bad things can an have happened to people and we have no way of predicting when or to whom. Put […]

ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Remarks of Robert P. George, Professor at 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.  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 […]

       Do you know that Christ is like a fork in the road of life? His very presence in the world demands a decision. Where Jesus is concerned, there is no such thing as neutrality. We must be for Him or else we are against Him.  Each one of us must make up our mind to go through life either with Him or without Him.       To some people that may seem an inconsequential matter.  For them it is only a question of religious preference.  One person chooses Christianity.        Another person chooses some […]

Religious faith brings out all sorts of qualities in the lives of the people whom it touches.  It lays hands on some, making them generous, kind and loving.  It takes hold of others and makes them cold, harsh and cruel.  St. Francis of Assisi was motivated by religious faith to renounce a personal fortune and lead a life of selfless devotion in service to the poor.  Many terrorists today are motivated by religious faith to lead lives of brutal persecution that results in the execution of hundreds and the imprisonment or displacement of thousands more.  Religious faith, strange to say, […]

A study of the history of war offers little encouragement to a world that is hungry for peace.  In ancient times wars were fought on a small scale between village and village.  Then it became tribe against tribe and province against province.  Later the combatants were nations, then coalitions of nations.  Until today it seems that virtually one half of the world is lined up against the other half.  A similar development can be traced in the weapons that are used to wage war.  At first people fought each other with clubs and rocks, then with spears and bows and […]