Pastor’s Pen – May 19, 2013

Of pump houses and other things… Things change at times, and sometimes they change quickly. As I joined Dave Marstall, Matt Dooley and Jim O’ Donnell on Saturday morning, cleaning up the broken bricks and discarded ceiling materials from the first stage of the...

Pastor’s Pen – May 12, 2013

A forwarded blog from a Newman Center student written by a relative named Anna …from the blogsite: An Unfinished world… (Though I did not write this, I wish I had…) It was just a fleeting thought that came in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep, when...

Is it really easy to fly a kite?

[Take out and show a plastic kite.] One of the sayings that we heard a lot growing up was, “It’s easy as flying a kite.” I don’t know where that came from or who said it first but they didn’t live in my neighborhood! There would be days when I’d see the wind blowing...

Pastor’s Pen – May 5, 2013

From the USCCB… Dear Friend: The Obama Administration’s contraceptive / abortifacient / sterilization mandate will begin to be enforced against non-profit religious schools, charities and health care providers on August 1. In the days to come, Congress must...