by Steve Patti | May 28, 2017 | Pastor's Column
Happy Memorial Day weekend to all – years ago, before I became a friar, I used to visit a veteran of World War I, a man born in Canada in 1893 and who was 99 years old when I began to visit him at his home. His name was Hector MacNeil. I used to go to his home in...
by Steve Patti | May 21, 2017 | Pastor's Column
Every spring, the fifth grade class from our school spends a few nights at Blue Jay Point on the shores of Falls Lake. Their teachers and some parents accompany them. One night last week I went out there for a visit. I arrived just after they had made s’mores around a...
by Steve Patti | May 14, 2017 | Pastor's Column
The past two weekends we had many children receive their first communion during our Sunday liturgies. We friars visited with them before each of the masses and you could see they were excited and nervous and anxious all at once. They had plans for post-first communion...
by Steve Patti | May 7, 2017 | Pastor's Column
Pope Francis continues to amaze by his travels and his constant message of dialogue and peace in a world that waits in deep longing for both. He was recently in Egypt, a country that has seen its share of violence in past years and said that he hoped that the Egyptian...
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