by St. Ann Staff | Jun 22, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
The Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom to Serve will take place from June 21 to July 4, 2014, a time when our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power—St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher,...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 15, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Jun 15, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
As you may have read and heard, Archbishop Carlson received some less than stellar press in our local media outlets. Let me present at least something of the ‘other side of the story.’ From the Archdiocesan Communications Office: “This statement is intended to clear...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 15, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
It is “wedding season” for us priestly types, and perhaps, for many of you, as sons, daughters, neighbors and friend’s children are making the trip to the altar. In my nearly 30 year of witnessing them, I have become convinced that weddings have an ability to give us...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 8, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
Dear Pastor, It is with joy, hope and confidence in the faithful I am announcing that I will consecrate the Archdiocese of St. Louis to the care of the Holy Spirit at the Vigil of Pentecost on Saturday, June 7, 2014 at Holy Redeemer Church at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday,...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 8, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
The Lord be with you. (Assembly responds: “And with your spirit.”) Thanks. But what does that mean? We’re about 2 ½ years into this “new” Mass language, and I still not totally comfortable with that response. The Lord is with my spirit but not the rest of me? The...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 8, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Jun 1, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
To all our Grads… There was a New Zealand principal who offered these words in a newsletter to the parents of his charges. But they are good words for you to hear as well. Always we hear the cry from teenagers, ‘What can we do, where can we go?’ My answer...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 1, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Jun 1, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
“Men and women of St. Ann parish, why are you standing there looking into the sky?” Is that not a corrective we all need sometimes. Jesus ascended to the heaven, and we’ve been looking at the sky ever since. I understand that temptation. • Local politics...
