June 30th, 2019 – Feast of SS. Peter & Paul Dear Friends in Christ, Happy (almost) Fourth of July! I hope you and your family have a very blessed holiday this week. In the midst of the many other festivities, all are invited to attend Mass the morning of July…

May 26, 2019 – Sixth Sunday of Easter “Oh Lord, let my life be such that people will say, “if this be the Servant, how must the Master be?” (St. John XXIII) Dear Friends, As we prepare for the feasts of the Ascension and Pentecost, it seems so clear that…

April 28, 2019 – Second Sunday of Easter Dear Friends, “He is risen! He is risen indeed!” I hope and pray that you had a very blessed and joy-filled Easter. I would like to thank all of the many people who worked so hard to make all of the Triduum…

March 31, 2019 – Fourth Sunday of Lent “Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life’s hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God’s all-forgiving love.” (Henri J.M. Nouwen, Return of the Prodigal Son)…

February 24, 2019 – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time “All happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina) Dear Friends, Let’s just admit it: Relationships are complex, and the dynamics of family can be crazy! Our Scripture this Sunday starts…

January 27, 2019 – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time “People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway….

December 30, 2018 – The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph Dear Friends, As 2018 comes to a close and we begin 2019, I want to wish everyone a very happy and blessed New Year! We entrust everything of this last year – all of its joys and sorrows…

November 25, 2018 – Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe “Jesus is coming…Look busy!” Dear Friends, So goes a refrigerator magnet a friend bought me, and that I laugh at every morning! This feast of Christ the King does indeed remind us that at some point Christ is…

October 28, 2018 – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time “Master, I want to see.” Dear Friends, Thus the blind man in the Gospel of Mark this weekend seeks out and persistently asks Jesus to change his life. Lately I have felt so blinded by the things occurring in the Church,…

  September 30, 2018 – Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time A Letter from Archbishop Listecki: Dear Parishioners, In June of 2015, I made a very big request of one of our parish priests. I asked Father Tim Kitzke, in addition to all his parish and pastoral responsibilities, to take on…