by Steve Patti | Dec 29, 2019 | Pastor's Column
A post-Christmas thank you to everyonewho helped to make our Christmas Masses go so well – to all who helped decorate the church, and to all who helped serve the nine Masses (in the span of 20 hours!). Friends of mine in the north are astounded to find out...
by Steve Patti | Dec 22, 2019 | Pastor's Column
As I write in these days leading up to Christmas, there is a sense of anticipation as the days of Advent soon give way to the appearance of a star in the night sky, to a small ragged manger in a field outside Bethlehem, to an inn too full and busy to find room...
by Steve Patti | Dec 15, 2019 | Pastor's Column
There is something beautiful about this Advent time of year, with the lighting of the Advent candles, the hopeful images from Isaiah of “on that day” which point to some future time – when, the prophet does not say – of God providing and fulfilling “on that day.” And...
by Steve Patti | Dec 8, 2019 | Pastor's Column
We arrive once again at the beginning of a new liturgical year, the season of Advent, which began last weekend and continues in the days leading up to Christmas. The season of Advent is a most beautiful time in our year, as the days get shorter, darkness comes...
by Steve Patti | Dec 1, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Welcome back to all who have been traveling for Thanksgiving and as we now enter the beautiful, dark-leading-to-light season of Advent; as we begin to look forward to Christmas with its astounding story of the God of all Creation being born among us, not as royalty or...
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