Thanksgiving Baskets
Please join the parishioners from our Family of Four Parishes as we strive to make Thanksgiving a time of joy for the families in our neighborhoods. Please see the list below of requested items for this special food drive, also published in the “Kinship Item of the Week” announcement. Items…
Love – Until the Last Breath
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On this Respect Life Sunday, we are invited to reflect on the sacredness and dignity of every human life. This year, I want to draw your attention to an issue gaining momentum throughout the world and here in the United States: the legalization of…
October 2026 Weekly Bulletin Messages
October 18th, 2026 – Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Brothers and sisters, I would like to refresh our minds with the beautiful divine attributes taught by our Catechism— specifically the six I had to memorize for my First Holy Communion: God is omnipresent (present everywhere), self-sufficient (exists of Himself), eternal…
September 2026 Weekly Bulletin Messages
September 27, 2026 – Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time “In the prison of his days Teach the free man How to praise.” (the memorial plaque for the poet W.H. Auden at Westminster Abbey) Dear Friends, In the story of the two sons in today’s Gospel, one son says no to…
August 2026 Weekly Bulletin Messages
August 30th, 2026 – Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time “By a new kind of Pentecost, renew Your marvelous works in this our time. Grant to Holy Church that persevering in prayer, together with Mary the Mother of Jesus, she may, under the guidance of St. Peter, enlarge the kingdom of…
A Matter of Faith: Fr. Tim Kitzke Interview
How should faith guide people through political division, cultural change and difficult conversations? Fr. Tim recently joined Steve Scaffidi for a thoughtful discussion about the role of faith in public life, the importance of avoiding partisan thinking and why listening can be more powerful than trying to win an argument….
Becoming Catholic
Dorothy Day writes, “The final word is love…To love we must know each other … and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more…We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that…
July 2026 Weekly Bulletin Messages
July 26th, 2026 – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Brothers and sisters, We all long for intimacy and union with God. As Saint Augustine says, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” While we seek Him, we often struggle…
June 2026 Weekly Bulletin Messages
June 28th, 2026 – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time “All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.” ~ Julian of Norwich Hello, People of God, My name is Fr. Arul Ponnaiyan, and I am grateful and excited to join this cluster…
May 2026 Weekly Bulletin Messages
May 31st, 2026 – The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity “The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is being played out in each one of us: or putting it the other way around, each of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place…
