Pastor’s Pen – July 29, 2012

Those were the days, these are the days… A parishioner commented after the 5pm mass last night – “It sure is nice to see three priests hanging around the church after mass.” (Fr. Nord, the visiting missionary, Fr. Evan Villanueva and myself) Many of you remember those...

What do you do with leftovers?

It is impossible to go to a banquet or wedding reception in our country without food being leftover. Running out of food makes the caterers look bad, the hosts look chintzy and leaves a lot of unhappy, hungry people not in the best of all moods. So there is always an...

What recharges your batteries?

Medical experts tell us that stress – be it good or bad, has the same effect on the body.  It wears us down, raises blood pressure, decreases our ability to perform our daily tasks.  But here is the interesting thing about stress.  The body is unable to tell the...