It was particularly fitting that our new flagpole went up the week we prepared to celebrate the independence and freedom of our great country. This was a communal effort with many contributing. Erv Geisler from our Parish Building Committee led the efforts. Our incoming 6th graders from the Academy held a special fundraiser when they […]
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If the events of today’s world offer us anything, it’s the opportunity to reflect and rethink what peace means and reorient our hearts. In this Sunday’s gospel, Jesus sends out the seventy-two disciples to towns and villages, not to change them, but to offer them his peace. In a similar way, Jesus sends us out from Holy Family community
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Last weekend we concluded a significant portion of the church year. This weekend we return to the portion of the year called Ordinary Time. Perhaps the best way to understand Ordinary Time in the church calendar is to review the long stretch that we have just concluded, a stretch that has been far from ordinary. Ordinary Time
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This Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ present in the Holy Eucharist. We read this Sunday, from the Gospel of Luke, how Jesus feeds five thousand men, not including women and children, with five loaves of bread and two fish. The Feast of the Holy Eucharist
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This weekend brings numerous elements to the celebration of the Eucharist. In a church founded upon and structured around Sacraments (experiences of the sacred), the Eucharist is clearly the most important. The sacredness of the Eucharist comes about in too many ways to comprehend, but in it, and through it, we, the Body of Christ,
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