by Dan Fuerst | Aug 13, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
On Friday, August 21, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Pius X. He truly was an amazing individual and pope who practiced humility and practiced it discretely. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was born 2 June 1835 and died on 20 August 1914. He was head of the...
by Dan Fuerst | Aug 6, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
As a young, newly ordained priest, I admired a senior priest who was gifted, beloved, and had changed countless lives. But soon I learned that he had fallen in catastrophic and destructive ways. The painful juxtaposition of good and evil was complex to process. How...
by Dan Fuerst | Jul 31, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
We all need quiet time to ourselves every once and awhile. Jesus in the Gospel is seeking quiet time. His very best friend just died, St. John the Baptist. Jesus sought a deserted place to pray, to think, and to mourn the loss of his cousin/friend. The crowds however,...
by Dan Fuerst | Jul 23, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
Around the time that the gold rushes ended in the nineteenth-century West, a curious phenomenon arose in New England known as money diggers. These were men who roamed the countryside with shovels, divining rods, and superstitious hope, convinced that treasure lay...
by Dan Fuerst | Jul 16, 2026 | Pastor's Thoughts
A man recently told me he was losing patience with the Church. “It’s supposed to be God’s Kingdom on earth,” he said, “but it’s full of contradictions and hypocrisy. Why can’t the Church just be better?” That last word...