by Dave Crout | Apr 22, 2018 | Easter
The Fourth Sunday of Easter is, perhaps the right time for a note or two on the Easter Season, about which we have only reached the halfway mark! But by now it may be difficult to discern that we are still in Easter – the lilies have faded and died and most Easter...
by Steve Patti | Apr 22, 2018 | Bishop Zarama
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today, on the 4th Sunday of Easter, the universal Church celebrates the 55th World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has informed us that the concentration of the fifteenth synod to take place in October...
by Steve Patti | Apr 15, 2018 | Pastor's Column
You will notice this weekend that work has begun on a new roof for our church. The original roof dates back to the construction of our church in 1996. Over the past several months, we have been experiencing periodic leaks in the roof, and so it was time for a...
by Steve Patti | Apr 8, 2018 | Pastor's Column
There is something about the days we celebrated last week, beginning with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday and ending with Easter – all of the images, from the gesture that Jesus makes of lowering himself to wash the feet of his apostles; to his agonizing...
by Steve Patti | Apr 1, 2018 | Pastor's Column
A warm welcome to all on this Easter Sunday, as we remember, as a community, the life, death, and new life of Jesus Christ. So much going on in these days – the witness of Jesus on Holy Thursday as he washes the feet of his apostles; the betrayal and abandonment and...
by Steve Patti | Mar 25, 2018 | Pastor's Column
Last Sunday, I spoke about Holy Week to the kids in our K-5 faith formation program. They were gathered in the cafeteria and were listening intently to the story of Jesus and what happened to him in these days leading up to Easter, how he shared a meal with his...
by Steve Patti | Mar 18, 2018 | Pastor's Column
Last weekend Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama was here and presided at the 11:30 mass on Sunday morning. If you were here you heard him say that the priest is not the “celebrant” of the mass, but the presider – that the gathered assembly of the people all “celebrate” the...
by Steve Patti | Mar 11, 2018 | Pastor's Column
On Thursday, February 22, we held two parish meetings, one in the morning and one in the evening to talk about the parish survey we conducted last November – the reasons we conducted the survey, what we found, and next steps. Both meetings were held in Anthony Hall...
by Steve Patti | Mar 4, 2018 | Pastor's Column
On Thursday, February 22, we held two parish meetings, one in the morning and one in the evening to talk about the parish survey we conducted last November – the reasons we conducted the survey, what we found, and next steps. Both meetings were held in Anthony Hall...
by Steve Patti | Feb 25, 2018 | Pastor's Column
Thank you to Rick Miller-Harraway of Catholic Charities who spoke at all of our masses a few weeks back about the importance of the Bishop’s Annual Appeal and of our parish’s role in the success of the BAA. We have a high annual BAA goal and the Diocese of Raleigh...
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