Pastor’s Thoughts

This weekend the church celebrates “Divine Mercy Sunday.” In Catholicism, divine Mercy is a devotion to Jesus Christ associated with the apparitions of Jesus to Saint Faustina Kowalska. The venerated image under this Christological title refers to what Sr....

Pastor’s Thoughts

Happy Easter to all. Easter is one of the most solemn and central days of our faith. Recall the words of St. Paul when he wrote, “If Christ be not raised from the dead, our faith is in vain.” (1 Cor. 15:14). Our observance of Easter is not just a mere recollection of...

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...

Pastor’s Thoughts

John 8:1-11 “The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle” (John 8:3). Why do they make her stand in the middle? Why not expose her on the periphery? The reason is something that affects us practically...

Pastor’s Thoughts

The Gospel this week is about the story of the prodigal son. I don’t know about you, but I used feel badly about the one brother who stayed home taking care of his aging father when the other son wandered off with his half of dad’s inheritance before dad even passed...