Pastor’s Column All Souls’ Day  November 2, 2025 Last year, I was sick with laryngitis no less than three times (8 weeks off) and so found myself needing to cancel every commitment involving speaking, which for a priest, is just about everything. Being sick is a kind of mini-death in a way. Losing one’s voice is not lethal nor terminal, yet to be otherwise healthy and yet unable to function was a kind of purgatory .    What is purgatory? Is it biblical? D

Pastor’s Column 30 th  Sunday in Ordinary Time October 26, 2025 When going in for a job interview, we naturally hope to impress the person doing the hiring. We try to learn what it is the company is looking for and how to approach them in a way that will be (hopefully) to their liking. Yet when we approach God in prayer, do we stop to consider what pleases God when we speak to him?  Of course, the Lord is always glad to hear from us, but certain ways of praying are

Pastor’s Column 29 th  Sunday in Ordinary Time October 19, 2025 “Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night?  Will he be slow to answer them?” from Luke 18:1-8 The parable of the unjust judge and the persistent widow is an appealing image. Who cannot see the humor in this story when Jesus relates it: the judge finally relents to this widow’s constant requests because he fears that she’s going to beat him up if he doesn’t

Pastor’s Column 28 th  Sunday Ordinary Time October 12, 2025 “One of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a...

Pastor’s Column 27 th  Sunday in Ordinary Time October 5, 2025 “ How long, O Lord? I cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not...