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...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 3, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
In 2007 Hollywood produced a movie called The Bucket List. 2 strangers meet in cancer ward. They find they have less than 3 months to live, so, they make up a list of all the things they want to do before they kick the bucket. “Kiss the most beautiful girl in the...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 3, 2010 | Pastor's Pen
Of many things… I heard a comment by a parishioner who no longer has children in our school: “I sure wish I knew more of what was going on over in school.” We have a few solutions to that issue already in place. In the vestibule of church, on the left side of the...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 2, 2010 | News, Sunday Bulletin
Did you know that the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen, ordained at the hands of the Apostlesas one of the first seven deacons, lived and died proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ? In thelast four decades, hundreds of men have proclaimed the same Gospel with...