by Dan Fuerst | Apr 2, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
Easter is so much more than eggs and egg hunts, rabbits and chicks, flowers and baskets, and—yes—even much more than chocolate! Our broken world needs Easter more than ever. So central to our faith is the Resurrection that St. Paul writes, “If Christ be not raised...
by Dan Fuerst | Mar 26, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
Holy Week celebrates some of the most dramatic liturgies of the entire Church year. It all begins this weekend, Palm Sunday. Jesus is welcomed by the crowds throwing branches as he triumphantly enters Jerusalem. Little do many know, He entered Jerusalem to die. His...
by Dan Fuerst | Mar 19, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
A friend of mine wrote an imaginative reflection on the raising of Lazarus that caught me off guard. She proposed that when Jesus called Lazarus from the tomb, the man was not joyful but angry and annoyed. After so much suffering, maybe death felt like a release. He...
by Dan Fuerst | Mar 12, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
On Thursday March 19th, the church universal celebrates the feast of Saint Joseph. Then on Monday May 1st the church celebrates the feast of St. Joseph the worker. The feast day of ‘Joseph the Worker’ has an interesting origin. When this feast day was promulgated, May...
by Dan Fuerst | Mar 5, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
Centuries before this weekend’s gospel story about the woman at the well was written, Israel had been one people and one nation. After the death of King David, the nation of Israel divided into a Northern Kingdom called Israel and a Southern Kingdom called Judah. In...