by Steve Patti | Aug 12, 2018 | Pastor's Column
You may have heard over the past week or so that Pope Francis declared that the death penalty is never permissible, which is a change from previous teaching that the death penalty might be permissible in certain cases. The announcement was big news around the world...
by Steve Patti | Aug 5, 2018 | Pastor's Column
You may have heard the announcement at Mass a few weeks back about the success of our 2018 Bishop’s Annual Appeal. As you know, we give regular updates on the BAA throughout the spring, and our mid-summer announcement was that our parish raised $480,000 for the...
by Steve Patti | Jul 29, 2018 | Pastor's Column
You may have heard that we have been having a series on Pope Francis’ recent exhortation “On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World.” We have met on three Tuesday evenings in July in Anthony Hall Founders Room. Gladys Whitehouse and I have facilitated the discussions –...
by Steve Patti | Jul 23, 2018 | Fr. Steve Patti
I love the line in Pope Francis’ recent apostolic exhortation on holiness, “Holiness, then, is not about swooning in mystic rapture.” Maybe sometimes we think it’s supposed to be that way – holiness as only reserved for the chosen or special few. In our recent...
by Steve Patti | Jul 22, 2018 | Pastor's Column
Many of you heard about the recent awful tragedy in our church community. The day after the funeral, I sent the following to our staff: Hi to all, Thank you to everyone who helped serve Ashley Cimino’s funeral, which as you can imagine, was filled with high...
by Steve Patti | Jul 18, 2018 | Fr. Steve Patti
A hot summer day in North Carolina, and the lure of a cool movie theater – what’s playing? A few days ago I went to the Carolina Theater to see a new documentary about Mr. Rogers, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Do any of us remember the days of watching PBS on a late...
by Steve Patti | Jul 15, 2018 | Pastor's Column
Many people last weekend asked me about Morocco – you may know that a small group from our parish traveled there from June 24 through July 3, as part of a trip organized by our Franciscan Mission office in Boston. What was it like? What did we see? We arrived in...
by Steve Patti | Jul 12, 2018 | Fr. Steve Patti
Many of you heard about the awful tragedy in our church community last week. The day after the funeral on Monday, I sent the following to our staff: Hi to all, Thank you to everyone who helped serve Ashley Cimino’s funeral, which as you can imagine, was filled with...
by Steve Patti | Jul 8, 2018 | Pastor's Column
In the introduction to his recent apostolic exhortation “On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World,” Pope Francis writes the following: “My modest goal is to re-propose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with all its risks, challenges and...
by Steve Patti | Jul 1, 2018 | Pastor's Column
As I write this on June 23, it’s the day before a group from the parish travels to Morocco for a ten-day trip; our parish group that traveled to El Salvador as part of a Habitat For Humanity build has returned and all reports are that it was a successful trip. Our...
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