Dear Parishioners, +JMJ A pastor of a parish is required at least once a year to make a financial disclosure to the parish. For the last couple of parishes that I pastored, this disclosure was most easily made by publishing in the bulletin the fiscal end-of-year balance
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Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Another letter here with various bits and pieces for our life together: -I wish the very best of God’s blessings for our college students as they leave for another academic year. I hope you know you can call back to the parish office to
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ For this bulletin letter, I will give you another excerpt from my Baltimore Thomistic conference on “Becoming a Better Confessor”. The keynote address of the whole conference was given the first night by Father Romano Caesarius, O.P. Father Caesarius is another one of those
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Since my arrival at the parish, I have fielded complaints and questions regarding the placement of the tabernacle at our Payne campus. I think it is obvious to anyone attending Mass at that campus that ministers sometime stumble around each other bringing the Eucharist
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Driving to Baltimore and back for the Thomistic conference on the Sacrament of Penance, I listened to hours of Catholic talk radio, mostly by means of podcasts that I downloaded onto my smartphone. I felt like I got a whole education on current events
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ I am writing this letter from my hotel room at the end of the first day of my conference in Baltimore: “Becoming a Better Confessor: Using the Virtues and Vices (of St. Thomas Aquinas) in the Confessional”. The conference – after only one day,
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ There are a couple changes you should know about regarding the Payne campus school Mass schedule every Friday this upcoming academic year. Because the school district is starting school 15 minutes later each day, we will have to start our school Mass at the
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ This past week I was asked to translate an address of Cardinal Sarah, head of the Congregation for Liturgy and Sacraments in Rome. (The translation was for somebody in the Diocese.). I thought I would share with you a bit of the fruit of
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Before treating our YDisciple program and the Payne rectory situation, I would like to announce that we have hired somebody to replace Heather Miller, our Administrative Assistant. I am happy to welcome Kris Stallkamp to our parish staff. Kris – whom many of you
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