Pastor’s Thoughts

Throughout the world this weekend, the Church dedicates this weekend, Good Shepherd Sunday, as a world day to pray for vocations. As the good shepherd lays down his very life for his sheep, a vocation to the priesthood and religious life is much the same. An...

Pastor’s Thoughts

This weekend’s Gospel is the ever beautiful encounter between Jesus and two of his disciples walking to Emmaus. Before Jesus accompanied them on their journey, their spirits had become heavy and downtrodden. The two were discussing how disappointed and disillusioned...

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

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...

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

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...