Pastor’s Column 1st Sunday of Advent November 27, 2022 “So too, you must also be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Seven years ago, I had the opportunity to visit the World Trade Center Memorial in Manhattan. There, one can find people from all over the world who have come on pilgrimage to learn, to grieve, to remember, to try to make sense of suffering somehow. Mixed in among us were still-grieving relatives, gently rubbing the names of l

Pastor’s Column Solemnity of Christ the King November 20, 2022 There are three cycles of gospels for the Solemnity of Christ the King and in many ways, this year's gospel is the most disturbing (Luke 23:35-43). Rather than seeing Christ coming triumphantly at the end of time on the clouds of heaven, he instead is seen reigning from the cross on Calvary. And truth be told, in our brief lives on earth we tend to see Christ more in this visage of suffering than as a triumphant K

Pastor’s Column 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time November 13, 2022 “All that you see here—the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.” Luke 21:5-6 The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem--stones that Jesus would have seen as well. The story of the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world are woven inextricably together in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Each year at this time the liturgy invites us to reflect on this gre

Pastor’s Column 32nd Sunday Ordinary Time November 6, 2022 “…but for those deemed worthy to attain a place to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage; They can no longer die, for they are like the angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones that will rise.” from Luke 20:27-38 This Sunday’s teaching by Jesus on the resurrection of the dead springs from something we all recognize: evil people often prospe