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Will you ask the Lord for vocations?
Apr-20-2024 to Apr-21-2024
World Day of Prayer for Vocations
Today the Church throughout the world prays for vocations. Will you make a special effort to ask the Lord for vocations to the priesthood and religious life? Pray for the priests who have...
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Administrator or Pastor?
Today’s readings grace us with the assurance that we are God’s very dear and beloved children (1Jn 3:1-2) and that Jesus, by whose name we are being saved (Acts 4:7-12) is...
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The Gifts of Easter
Jesus transformed the greatest tragedy in life into Easter Power and the speciality of that power is that it is communicable. Have we experienced this communicable power in our lives? Have we succeeded in communicating it to others...
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Unless Wheat Dies
Today’s scriptural texts give us a few images to feed our faith. In the Gospel (Jn 12:20-33), Jesus will offer the image of the grain of wheat falling to earth to die so as to...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year on behalf of all the priests that have served the parish.
Please keep us in your prayers.
Fr. Constantin
Rev. Carlo Cerrone (1972)
Rev. Henri du Halgouet (1972-1980...
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Christmas and New Year's Schedule
Christmas Masses
Dec. 24 (vigil Sun.) 6:30pm
Dec. 25 (Mon. Christmas day) 10:30am
Wed. Dec. 27
5:00pm
Fri. Dec. 29
5:00pm
Sat. Dec. 30 (vigil)
5:00pm
Sun. Dec. 31 ONLY
11:30am
THE SOLEMNITY...
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Celebrate God’s Presence
Every year we celebrate Christmas. In every Christmas we celebrate the presence of God. How should we celebrate this wonderful gift of God’s presence in Christmas 2011? This Sunday’s readings give us...
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From Anxiety to Joy
Today is Gaudete Sunday. The name comes from the Entrance Antiphon from today’s liturgy. Every mass has an Entrance Antiphon (usually a phrase from scripture) assigned to it, and it used to be a custom...
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Prepare the Way of the Lord
Most Catholics rarely open their family Bible. And even fewer Catholics study what it really means. It is with this perspective that this week’s scripture reflection is given.
The readings for the second Sunday of Advent...
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The Challenge of Advent
Advent places before us three challenges: watch, wait, pray. The readings of this first Sunday of the new liturgical year underline them. “Stay awake”, counsels Jesus in today’s gospel (Mk.13:33-37), &ldquo...
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From NO to YES
Adam and Eve said “No” to God. Since then each member of the entire believing community has been engaged in the daily and lifelong struggle of changing that all too naturally arising “No” into...
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Fear - dispelling Faith
In today’s readings, we are offered some excellent pointers in coping with our fears, not through logic or rationality, but through faith. Our ancestors in the faith have alluded to the universal human experience of fear...
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The Body and Blood of the Lord
This annual feast offers an ideal time to reaffirm the church’s belief that the bread and wine are truly changed into the body and blood of the Lord. There should be no question that this is the faith...
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The Gift of Relationship
The last few Sundays we were focusing on divine gifts. The first gift we reflected on was Jesus’ promise that he would be with us always. The second gift was the gift of an agenda which...
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God’s Kiss
Today we have gathered together to celebrate the liberation that is Pentecost. Luke, in today’s first reading (Acts 2:1-11) speaks of the Spirit in terms of “tongues, as of fire”, and of &ldquo...
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The Gift of an Agenda
Do you remember Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated? King&rsquo...
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The Gift of Patience
From last Sunday’s celebration of Jesus, our Good Shepherd, we turn our attention this week to who we are and how we are to live as Jesus’ sheep, or, to put it another way, as church. ...
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Christ of Experience
“The death of Jesus is nothing for us if we have not died with Him; the resurrection of our Lord is nothing for us if we have not been raised with Him”. These are the words of...
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Easter and Its Vision
Today, we celebrate Easter and the transforming vision associated with it. Jesus, who was dead, is risen! Alleluia! Today, we celebrate our belief that in Jesus’ death and rising, each of us has been afforded a...
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HOLY WEEK
Today we start Holy Week by the blessing and distributing Palms which signifies the triumphant arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem before his death and Resurrection.
This journey continues on Holy Thursday as we celebrate the Mass of the Last Supper...