Category: Pastor’s Message

5/16/10 Seventh Sunday of Easter Today the church marks another span of 40 days. First came the 40 days of Lent that led us to Easter. Now, 40 days after Easter, we are led to the top of the Mount of Olives for the ascension of our Lord. From this windswept place, Jesus could see…
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5/09/10 Sixth Sunday of Easter You may have seen the T-shirts that say: “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace.” It’s an important message. Anxiety and depression are big in business in the United States. TV commercials are filled with ads for medication to help people fight these conditions. It is estimated that depression…
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5/02/10 Fifth Sunday of Easter After giving her catechism class a very thorough lesson on the Ten Commandments, the teacher quizzed her students. “What was the First Commandment?” She asked. No one answered, so she called on a boy who was staring into space. He clearly hadn’t been paying attention to the lesson. The boy…
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4/25/10 The Fourth Sunday of Easter Last December at a Mass marking the 30th anniversary of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s death, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan thanked God for the life of the memorable television and radio personality. Dolan said that while he was a seminarian in Rome he saw a crowd gathered around the famous…
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4/18/10 Third Sunday of Easter One perfect Sunday morning, a priest couldn’t resist the urge to go fishing, so he called up the bishop with a fake raspy voice, saying he had laryngitis. The bishop said he would send another priest to take his Sunday Masses. The truant priest’s first catch was the biggest fish…
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