Pastoral Letters

Palm Sunday Praised Be Jesus Christ! Now and Forever! Dear People of St. Mary’s Church, At the beginning of this Holy Week, the Church’s annual remembrance of the passion, death, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, our parish family is thriving, and we have many blessings for which to be thankful. Human Growth and Discipleship…

Dear People of St. Mary’s Church, “Put not your trust in princes, in mortal men in whom there is no help…Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Psalm 146:3,5). These words of the palmist came to me several days ago when I first heard…

Letter to St. Mary’s at Christmas Dear People of Saint Mary’s Church, Anniversaries are always a time to take stock, and in A.D. 2002, we will celebrate a particularly important anniversary: we will be 150 years old. In the century and a half since the founding of this parish dedicated to Our Lady of the…

Praised be Jesus Christ! Now and Forever! Dear People of St. Mary’s Church, On Thursday 28 June 2001, the Feast of St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr, I will become the eighth pastor of St. Mary’s Church. Before God, I declare to our Bishop Robert that I will give myself entirely to the service of this…