by Fr. Bill | Oct 17, 2010 | Pastor's Pen
Amazing faith… While you are reading this, I am with the UMSL Newman Center students on our Awakening Retreat. It is a retreat by college students for college students. Thank you, as always for your prayers during these days. It is a gift to be able to tell the...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 17, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
(Sing) Lean on me, when you’re not strong, and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on. For it won’t be long, ‘til I’m gonna need somebody to lean on… That song, by Bill Withers, captures something that is important, I think, in our spiritual journey. There are...
by Webmaster | Oct 15, 2010 | Events, Fundraising
It’s garage sale time again! The Annual St. Ann Garage Sale begins on Saturday, October 23th. We are in need of usable items to sell so go ahead and free up some square footage in your house by bringing your tax deductible donations to the Parish Center starting...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 10, 2010 | Pastor's Pen
Letters… Like all of you, I get a fair amount of mail. Some are bills, some are requests, some are diocesan matters, and some are words of thanks for jobs well done. Let me share some of those latter ones with you from my mail bag… From Archbishop Carlson: “I ask you...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 10, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
As a kid, I loved the connect-the-dots ‘games’ I’d find in the Highlight magazines in the dentist office and the occasional homework assignment. However, I, who draw stick fish, never realized that you didn’t have to draw exact straight lines between the numbers. In...
