by St. Ann Staff | May 8, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Have you ever spent so much time focused on getting to the goal that once you achieved it, you had no idea what came next? The new career mother, who has looked forward to the birth of their first child, now returns home with baby in tow, has all the friends and...
by St. Ann Staff | May 8, 2016 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | May 8, 2016 | Pastor's Pen
December 11, 2015 marked a milestone in my life. Though I did not realize it at the time (my internal math had somehow put that date in mid March) that was the day when I had spent exactly half of my priesthood living at St. Ann parish. I was ordained on Dec. 15,...
by St. Ann Staff | May 1, 2016 | Pastor's Pen
Beyond Sunday… Two bits of good news to report to you. St. Ann received its first share of the Beyond Sunday monies. As you remember, each parish receives 40% of the parish campaign total, distributed twice a year – once in March, for all the funds collected the...
by St. Ann Staff | May 1, 2016 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | May 1, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
It is not ordinary, garden variety peace that Jesus promises us. “Not as the world gives, do I give it to you.” Hmm. What are you talking about, Jesus? That shalom is more than health and well being and absence of strife. Rather, it is about the stuff of the...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 24, 2016 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Apr 24, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
In a former parish where I was stationed, as I would drive into the car port, I would see stored in the rafters two barely use basketball hoops and backboards. And each time I saw them, I was saddened. You see, the hoops had been put up on the playground of the...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 24, 2016 | Pastor's Pen
Voices in the rectory after hours. Lights in the parish center after dark. People armed with scissors and staplers and fabric in the school cafeteria. The ringing of the doorbell. The smell of new wax wafting up through the church air returns. And extra loads for the...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 17, 2016 | Sunday Bulletin
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