Dear parishioners, As I mentioned a few weekends ago at Mass, we will not be having our annual rectory open house this year. We usually schedule that on the Sunday after Christmas, but because next Sunday falls on New Year’s Day, we decided to cancel, foreseeing that
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Dear parishioners, The following is a summary of the most recent finance council meeting, which took place a couple weeks ago. We have not yet received the 4th quarter statements for our investments, so we do not have updated numbers for those accounts. However, our most recent
Read more →Dear parishioners, Welcome once again to Advent! I always find this liturgical season to be particularly beautiful, but it always goes too quickly. However, there is something fitting in that reality- the time of anticipation fading quickly into the celebration of the birth of our Savior! Speaking
Read more →Dear parishioners, Looking ahead on the parish calendar, we will have our usual Thanksgiving Day Mass at 9:00 A.M. in the Paulding church. As we spend the day thanking God for all the good things he has given us, please consider starting the day off with the
Read more →Dear Parishioners, For some of us, these remaining days of Advent will likely be hectic as we hurry to finish projects for work, finalize plans for family gatherings, and purchase those last items for our Christmas shopping. All of these are certainly good and need to be
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Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ As I’m writing this letter the week before Christmas, we just received details for the funeral Mass of Father Tony Borgia, pastor of St. Patrick’s Heatherdowns in Toledo. Father died Saturday evening, without any notice whatsoever, probably of a heart attack. I couldn’t
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Do you remember the famous Prologue of the Gospel of St. John (chapter 1:1-18)? We read it during the Mass at nighttime for Christmas. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Here is a beautiful quote from Pope Benedict XVI that I saw this past week: If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. This can be fine meditation for us as we
Read more →Dear Parishioners, In a few days we celebrate Christmas, the Feast of the Incarnation. God takes on flesh, i.e., human nature. Technically, this act of joining divine nature to human nature is called the “hypostatic union”. God’s commitment to his creation, especially to the human race, is
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