Dear parishioners, As I mentioned last weekend at the end of Mass, please consider joining us for a Lenten afternoon reflection on Sunday, March 12 at the Paulding church. The theme for the reflection is: Making Prayer Come Alive! Speaker Mary Jo Parrish from Kingdom Builders in
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Dear parishioners, With the big announcement a couple weeks ago about the future direction of our parish, I know many people are hurting. Please know of my continued prayers for all, and please know that I am very grateful to the many people who have reached out
Read more →Hello everyone! Congratulations to all of our young parishioners who made their First Communion this weekend and last weekend! It is such a joy to celebrate this wonderful day with them and their families; I definitely appreciate seeing the boys donning their suits and the girls wearing
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Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ One of the priests to whom I am most indebted from my years of seminary training, and even from my later years on faculty at the seminary is Father Bill Lynn, SJ. He died about ten years ago. Father Lynn was very
Read more →Dear Parishioners +JMJ Recently I read in Saint Faustina’s diary a description of a very big “consolation” she experienced from Jesus. She had the sense that Jesus was asking her to give him permission to use her however he wanted. Of course, you can imagine
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ A few weeks ago, when we had our High School “Theology on Tap” at the Pastime restaurant, we closed the evening with a prayer “On how to Order One’s Life”. It was a
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ What do you do during those two moments when the priest at Mass during the Eucharistic prayer stops, brings his hands together in a gesture of private prayer, and slightly bows his head in silence? During our Sunday Masses, when I read Eucharistic
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