December 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
December 25th, 2022 – Nativity of the Lord “A God who became so small could only be mercy and love.” (St. Therese) Merry Christmas everyone! On behalf our Fr. Carlos and myself, our amazing parish staff, our parish trustees and lay leadership, please know of our love and best wishes…
Thank You From Kinship Community Food Center
Happy Thanksgiving! From your family at Kinship Community Food Center! Thanks to everyone at Family of Four Parishes, we were able to provide more than 400 families with delicious ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal to share with their loved ones this holiday! As our Executive Director, Vincent Noth, shared in a TMJ4…
Advent and Christmas Season 2022
Join our Family of Four Parishes for a season of hope and anticipation as we await and then celebrate the birth of our Lord. Advent can be such a beautiful, prayerful season that can help us slow down and focus on Jesus. Looking for ideas? A few recommended by our…
November 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
November 27th, 2022 – First Sunday of Advent Dear Friends, Every Advent I try to pick a virtue that I will work on in my daily life. And every Advent I come up with the same one – PATIENCE. Does anyone else have trouble being patient? If you said no,…
Thanksgiving Baskets 2022
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. We will be filling bags in the hopes of serving over 400 families this year. Bags and shopping lists will be distributed the weekends…
October 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
October 30th, 2022 – Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time “Some people see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” (Robert Kennedy) Dear Friends, Our Gospel this Sunday presents to us the figure of Zacchaeus, who was short in stature,…
September 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
September 25th, 2022 – Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Friends, The parable of Lazarus and the rich man is a masterful depiction of the Christian life and also a clear call to action. We are at first presented with the scene of Lazarus eating the scraps that would fall…
August 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
August 28th, 2022 – Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear friends, I always appreciated my grandmother’s description of what a good priest should be like. There was one occasion, for instance, that I could tell she was passionate about the description she was making. She said to me, “Carlos, mijo…
Cramer Building Sold
Dear Friends, At all Masses this past weekend we announced some good news: our parish has officially sold the Cramer Building! The new owner is Aaron Matter of Matter Development, who is committed to preserving the historic character of the building’s exterior. This sale is the answer to many prayers…
July 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
July 31, 2022 – Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear friends, Today that I write these lines marks two years since I witnessed my first wedding as a Priest, on July 25 of 2020. Since May 16 of 2020 when I became a priest, I have been blessed to witness…
