Pastor's Notes
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/28/22
Starting today, we begin Catholic Schools Week. What is National Catholic Schools Week? Since 1974, National Catholic Schools Week is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States. It starts annually on the last Sunday in January and runs all week. The theme for National Catholic Schools ... Read More »
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/21/22
As we flip the calendar to begin 2022, we pass the halfway point on the fiscal year 2021-22 for Holy Family Catholic Parish. It is a good time to provide an update of where the parish stands.
The parish continues to show forth its generous heart! December is typically ... Read More »
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/14/22
[Parents] In asking for Baptism for your child, you are undertaking the responsibilty of raising her / him in the faith, so that keeping God’s commandments, she / he may love the Lord and her / his neighbor as Christ taught us. Do you understand this responsibility? [Godparents] are ... Read More »
Baptism of the Lord
Posted by Maria Franxman on 1/07/22
[Parents] In asking for Baptism for your child, you are undertaking the responsibilty of raising her / him in the faith, so that keeping God’s commandments, she / he may love the Lord and her / his neighbor as Christ taught us. Do you understand this responsibility? [Godparents] are ... Read More »
Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord
Posted by Maria Franxman on 12/23/21
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.” Matthew 2:1-2
Homage ... Read More »
Christmas & the Feast of the Holy Family
Posted by Maria Franxman on 12/23/21
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 »
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Posted by Maria Franxman on 12/17/21
The Fourth and Final week of Advent is upon us. Our last week to prayerfully, humbly, lovingly prepare for the Coming of Christ. School is out. Last minute preparations for gifts, decorations, parties are underway, but sometime this week before Christmas Eve, sit down and slowly read the Scriptures ... Read More »
Third Sunday of Advent
Posted by Maria Franxman on 12/17/21
Happy Gaudete Sunday of Advent! It is time to break out the Rose-Pink vestment and rejoice that we are past the halfway point of this season of preparation for Christ Coming anew at Christmas.
One thing I love about Advent is the way so many of you so easily ... Read More »
Second Sunday of Advent
Posted by Maria Franxman on 12/03/21
Teens of Holy Family Parish spent a weekend learning about faith and the Church, making new friends from all around the nation, and encountering the Lord in new and exciting ways. At the National Catholic Youth Conference, 18 young people at Holy Family and 135 students from the New ... Read More »
First Sunday in Advent
Posted by Maria Franxman on 11/24/21
Happy Advent and Blessed New (liturgical) Year! We light the first candle on our Wreathe. With Advent, not only do we begin our spiritual preparation for Christmas, we begin another new year in the Church. Just as the years of our calendar are numbered from the birth of Christ, ... Read More »