Lent is like Maintaining Your Car This past weekend Fr. Kurt gave a simple yet brilliant image for Lent in his homilies at 5:00pm on Saturday and 7:30am on Sunday. His analogy is that this season of reflection that we have begun is like the many details of maintaining your car. Manuals give us schedules […]
February 26th, 2023 Read More »
Perfect. What does that mean? The dictionary defines perfect as: Having all required or desirable elements, qualities or characteristics. As good as it is possible to be. To be complete. There are various experiences in our culture, from sports to academic tests, that define perfection in other ways. Is it possible to
Salt and Light We heard the beginning of the great Sermon on the Mount last weekend, but we will hear the remainder of it over the next three weekends. These further passages from the fifth chapter of Matthew will conclude this seven-week period of Ordinary Time leading us up to Lent beginning with Ash Wednesday
February 5th, 2023 Read More »
Catholic Schools Week Begins We kick off a week of celebration with all other Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago with a special Mass at 9:00am this Sunday. Each year we offer personal testimonies as a part of weekend liturgies to tell a story. I want to thank Kathy Knuth, the school nurse at
January 29th, 2023 Read More »
Kingdom Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Man, Kingdom of Heaven—several slightly different kingdoms mentioned in our Judeo-Christian story. Are there significant differences, or do they all mean the same kingdom? I find this interesting to reflect on. In the Our Father we ask, because Jesus taught us to ask, that THY kingdom come, meaning the
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