Pastor’s Column 4th Sunday Ordinary Time January 31, 2021 “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” from Mark 1:21-28 This Sunday we hear a most curious exchange taking place. Jesus is confronted with a man who has an “unclean spirit”. But this is no ordinary conversation that Jesus is having with this unfortunate man, for the man speaks in the plural. He does this because he is filled with many demo

Pastor’s Column 3rd Sunday Ordinary Time January 24, 2021 Brothers and sisters, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as if they didn’t have them, those weeping as if not weeping, those rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those buying as if not owning... for the world as we know it is passing away. 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 St. Paul wrote these perplexing words almost 2000 years ago, to people very much like you and me. Corinth was a big an

Pastor’s Column 2nd Sunday Ordinary Time January 17, 2021 If you have ever watched the old Cecil B. DeMille film King of Kings, you might notice that this silent movie, which was created in black and white, always has Jesus wearing a garment that is whiter than everyone else has on; in fact, Jesus even seems to have a kind of “glow” around him. Of course, in reality, Jesus looked like any other normal person (no glow). If he looked like “God”, he would never have been crucifi

Pastor’s Column The Baptism of the Lord January 10, 2021 Saint Bernadette, the famous seer of Lourdes, was once asked what her favorite prayer was. She answered, perhaps surprisingly, that it was the Sign of the Cross. She noted that the Virgin Mary herself taught her how to cross herself correctly – slowly and deliberately – making this action with the prayer and reverence that it ought to be made. She learned all this simply by watching how Mary herself made the Sign of the