Pastor’s Column 31st Sunday Ordinary Time October 31, 2021 “Hear O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your heart, with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Mark 12:28-30 What are the guiding principles of my life? Christ makes it clear that if we put what is important to God first, God will guide everything else and we will be prepared for e

Pastor’s Column 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time October 24, 2021 “Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me.’” from Mark 10:46-52 There were many people lining the roadside as Jesus left Jericho that day. Jericho lay at an oasis at the base of a long arduous climb up to the mountains of Jerusalem. Jesus, by this time, was quite famous and m

Pastor’s Column 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time October 17, 2021 Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast to our profession of faith. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tested in every way, yet without sin. So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help. Hebrews 4:14 – 16 Since many of us have

Pastor’s Column 28th Sunday Ordinary Time October 10, 2021 Is there something deeply lacking in my relationship with God? In this Sunday’s gospel of the rich young man and his haunting encounter with Jesus (Mark 10:17-30), Mark has an added detail that the other Gospels lack – he notes that Jesus looks at this young man and loves him. Why does he love him so much? This man has spent his life loving God without even realizing it, because he was trying to keep the Commandments

Pastor’s Column 27th Week in Ordinary Time October 3, 2021 October 7 is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, not to mention that we hosted the Rosary Bowl here this Saturday. The rosary has a very interesting history that many of us are undoubtedly unaware. The rosary as we know it today has its origins in the 150 psalms of the bible. A complete rosary (15 decades) had exactly 150 Hail Marys until Jon Paul II expanded the Rosary by adding the five luminous mysteries. The conn