Pastor’s Pen – October 20, 2013

Ooops… It seems, in my rush to get to press last weekend, that I inadvertently ‘killed’ one parishioner and brought another one back from the dead. The Knights of Columbus Chalice (that we now have in our possession) was in memory of Anthony Schmidt (deceased)...

How do you say: “Thank you?”

I was the kid whose mom had to force me to sit down and write thank you notes to Grandpa and Grandma for the Christmas gift they gave me. It didn’t help that their gifts were usually the very practical stuff mom probably told them we needed – socks, scarves, and...

Pastor’s Pen – October 13, 2013

Gifts that will keep on giving… It has been a busy month in the ‘St. Ann Church Goods Department’. Marie (Mims) Gagnepain (our centenarian + three) donated a chalice and paten that had been given to her and her husband on their 60th anniversary of Marriage. The...

Is ‘more’ always better?

“It isn’t much,” the young man thought, as he picked up the bulky, old, never quite in tune 12 string guitar, the echoes of the piano concert from the basement still ringing in his and the rest of the student’s ears. “How can these 12 strings and a five-chord song...