Dear Friends in Christ, A few items for your consideration: Next Sunday I will celebrate the 25th anniversary of my priestly ordination, and all are invited to share in that celebration by joining us for the Solemn Mass at 11 am, Sung Vespers at 5 pm, and a reception following Vespers in Gallivan Hall. I…

Dear Friends in Christ, The liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church assigns solemnities, feasts, and memorials to fixed dates in the solar calendar, and those celebrations are kept each year on the same assigned date. For example, 28 June – which falls this year on a Thursday – is the memorial of St Irenaeus of…

Dear Friends in Christ, Several items for your review: 1) I was ordained to the priesthood on 10 July 1993, which means that next month I will have been a priest for 25 years – 17 of them at St Mary’s! Since the actual anniversary date is on a Tuesday this year, I am moving…

Dear Friends in Christ, Time for a few updates on our finances and coming projects. If our collections in June remain as they have been during recent months, we will finish the fiscal year with a budget surplus of about 1%. In other words, we are right on target, and that is thanks to your…

Dear Friends in Christ, As He was ascending to the glory of the Father, Jesus said, “Behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age” (Matthew 28.20). And He also taught us: “Amen, amen, I say to you: unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood,…