Pastor's Notes
2nd Sunday of Easter / Divine Mercy Sunday
Posted by Maria Franxman on 4/11/24
Christ has Risen, as He said He would, Alleluia!!!Happy & blessed Easter to everyone. I pray you have a blessed and joyous Easter Season.
Given we are in Year-B readings, we don’t hear the Road to Emmaus Resurrection account from Luke’s Gospel on a Sunday of Easter. We will ... Read More »
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection
Posted by Maria Franxman on 4/11/24
Christ has Risen, as He said He would, Alleluia!!! Happy & blessed Easter to everyone. I pray you have a blessed and joyous Easter Sunday & Season.
The image below is part of a collection of the Paschal Mystery of Christ painted in the chapter room in the great ... Read More »
Palm Sunday
Posted by Maria Franxman on 3/22/24
The Crucifix pictured here hangs in a Monastery of Santo Tomas in Avila, Spain, which was once a Dominican friary and house of study. One thing that was readily apparent when I visited churches & cathedrals throughout Spain was the almost gruesome nature of their crucifixes. They do ... Read More »
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Maria Franxman on 2/02/24
Love & Marriage Total ♥ Faithful ♥ Fruitful ♥ Free
By Theresa Notare, “I believe that most people enter marriage wanting the best for their spouses and themselves. They want their love to last forever. They hope life won't be too hard and that they too can have the ... Read More »
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/31/24
Change for Mass Intentions on certain Major Holidays Easter + Christmas + All Souls + Our Lady of Guadalupe + Mother’s Day + Father’s Day A longstanding custom in the Catholic Church is to have a Mass offered for a particular intention (i.e., world peace, the country, benefactors) or ... Read More »
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/22/24
Thank you, thank you for your faithfulness, joyfulness & generosity in bountifully bringing the Second Quarter of our parish fiscal year to a successful close. Our fiscal year runs 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. As commonly happens, giving increased in December with increased attendance during Advent ... Read More »
2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/12/24
We (briefly) return to wearing green and “Ordinary” time this weekend after all the joy, excitement, and grandeur of the Christmas season. By “Ordinary”, the Church does not envision mundane or blasé. “Ordinary” first comes from the term “Ordinal”, as in “to count” and short for ‘ordinal number’. It ... Read More »
The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/03/24
Many of you have seen Aaron Noll around the parish in the Fall during one of his ministry weekends with Holy Family or perhaps at RCIA. Well, we will all be seeing a lot more of Aaron in the coming months. Starting this week, Aaron will be full time ... Read More »
Solemnity of the Holy Family
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/03/24
The Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, our parish patronal title, is celebrated this Sunday. We are blessed to have the ‘big three’ to lead us closer to God the Father in the Spirit – Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Together and individually, they show us ... Read More »
4th Sunday of Advent and Christmas
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/03/24
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of ... Read More »