Pastor's Reflection
4th Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday
Dear Friends,
Can it really be? Laetare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent? We are a whole month in and just three weeks to Easter Sunday! There’s still plenty of time to engage or re-engage in our efforts of praying, fasting, and almsgiving.
This Sunday, Mother Church offers us the parable of the Prodigal Son or as some identify it the parable of the Forgiving Father. For sure, most of us can recite this parable almost line for line. It is beautiful and powerful especially as we recognize and embrace the tremendous forgiveness and love of our Father God!
3rd Sunday of Lent: The Lord is kind and merciful
Dear Friends,
Last week sometime, I received in the mail a mid-year update on the annual Seminary Appeal. According to the letter our parish family has donated $37,695 so far. Of course, we also are at the beginning stages of the 2022 Catholic Charities Appeal for which our parish family has so far pledged $38,715 or 29% of our parish goal.
2nd Sunday of Lent: "Look up at the sky and count the stars"
Dear Friends,
“The Lord God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can.”” These words from our first reading, the Book of Genesis, struck a memory for me. We live with so much ambient light around us from homes, stores, streetlights, etc. that when we look up at the night sky, we see only a very tiny fraction of the stars that are up there. You need to go to a more remote location to appreciate what God is telling Abraham.
