Category: Pastor’s Message

The smartphone in your hand is an almost miraculous device. It plays music, it talks, it takes videos and photos, and it contains all the information that Wikipedia can hold. Moreover, it connects you with anyone anywhere in the world. If smartphones had been around in Jesus’ time, the commandments would have been available on…
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Bill Gates failed in his first business, Traf-O-Data. But he learned from the experience and started another business, which he called Microsoft. Persistence pays off. President Calvin Coolidge once said, “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Genius will not. Education will not. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.…
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Mother Teresa famously said, “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.” Today’s Gospel story about the ambition of James and John illustrates the folly of always wanting more. James and John wanted power and prestige. They wanted to be higher than the rest. Jesus told them that the greatest among them is the…
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Once there was a rich man who showed up at the entrance to heaven. Saint Peter, sitting at his desk in front of the gate, opened the rich man’s Book of Life and pored over the pages. Finally he looked up and said, “I’m sorry, but I see nothing here that qualifies you for entry…
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The pope recently described marriage as “an asset for the spouses, for the children, for the church, and for all of mankind.”  In today’s Gospel, Jesus says, “What God has joined together, let no one separate.”  But despite many wonderful and enduring marriages, for many complex reasons, strong, stable marriages seem to be in trouble…
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