+JMJ Dear Parishioners, First of all I would like to congratulate the young men and women from our parish who were confirmed by Bishop Thomas last week! During our confirmation retreat last Saturday, I had the chance to ask the students questions, and I was impressed with
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+JMJ Dear Parishioners, First of all I would like to thank all of the parishioners who put so much work into our Holy Week liturgies: those who helped in any way with Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday Mass of the Pre-sanctified, Good Friday evening’s ecumenical Association
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, Happy Easter! Since the passion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus is aimed at re-creating a new humanity in God’s image and likeness, it actually fits to use this column on Easter Sunday to recap for you our latest session of Theology of the
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, Here are a number of items that I am thinking about these days for the parish: -A belated thanks to everybody who made the parish retreat work so well! I wasn’t able to be there for the entire thing, but I saw enough to
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, On Sunday, February 28, we had our second session of Young Adult Theology of the Body. Once again there was a nice mix of married couples and singles. The format was the same: half an hour of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, half an
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, Here is another excerpt from Bishop Olmsted’s teaching on music in the Mass. (See his whole presentation at http://www.adoremus.org/0512SingingtheMass.html). This time he offers a short history of music, so that we can get a glimpse of where our music in the Mass started. It
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, Here is another excerpt from Bishop Olmsted’s excellent series on sacred music in the liturgy. (Check out the entire series at: http://diocesephoenix.org/bishop-olmsted-columns) Here he notes the difference between “sacred music”, which is the music written to support all the proper prayer, antiphons and other
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, In 2011 Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Pheonix wrote a series of four articles for his Diocese, explaining sacred music. (Check out the entire series at: http://diocesephoenix.org/bishop-olmsted-columns). It is an excellent series. Until my seminary days, I had never had any teaching on music in
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, On Thursday, January 28, we had another finance council meeting. The following are some of the main points: -We reviewed the balance sheet, the profit and loss statement, as well as the payables report. Also, a couple council members quickly summarized their internal audit
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, Last Sunday we had the first of eight sessions in our Theology of the Body Course at our Paulding campus. The evening was broken into four parts: adoration, food and fellowship, a video of Christopher West presenting Theology of the Body, and finally a
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