by St. Ann Staff | Jul 13, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
Social Media/Technology update… Many of you reading this will remember the era of party lines. No, they were not cute remarks that people made to win the esteem of the opposite sex at gatherings. Rather, they were the most economical way to have phone service at your...
by St. Ann Staff | Jul 13, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Sometimes it does not take much to go from rocky ground to fertile soil – to go from being barren and resistant to grace/love, to being a complete vessel of that very love and grace. As you know, many years ago, Fr. Hanneke and I met with Fr. Vic about our concerns...
by St. Ann Staff | Jul 6, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” I suspect that many people know this experience: the busy parents chauffeuring kids to various sporting practices and games to the corporate executive traveling with the demands of their career, to the elderly grandparent giving...
by St. Ann Staff | Jul 6, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
The progress after one night of pulling wire… I learned a lot of things that I did not know after one night of pulling wires in our St. Ann school. First and foremost is the “rule of knots.” Apparently, the long-er the distance that two or three pieces of cable run...
by St. Ann Staff | Jul 6, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Jun 29, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Jun 29, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
Of small improvements and large… …You may have noticed these past two weekends that our usual communion cups were not in service. Deacon Norm Janson and his wife Jackie purchased them for the parish for our 150th jubilee back in 2006. (Can it really be 8 years...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 29, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
There are times when I feel out of my league. When the technology committee convenes, I can follow the big picture ideas and streams of thought. But when they start talking jargon and the nitty gritty, I KNOW that I am not smart enough in this area to add anything,...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 22, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Jun 22, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat, but if it dies, it bears much fruit… You probably have heard these words a hundred times, a thousand times in the course of your life time. I came across this poem in the...
