by St. Ann Staff | Apr 14, 2013 | Pastor's Pen
Of many things… If you remember, Conor Sullivan is a seminarian for the St. Louis Archdiocese who was assigned here last summer. He is preparing to be ordained to the Diaconate. He sent me the following ‘open invitation’ to all of you. He and his family “invite...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 7, 2013 | Pastor's Pen
My family is closing Friday on the Kempf family homestead, a three bedroom (with a 4th added in the basement when my sister was born) that housed us 6 kids and mom and dad. It is the only ‘house’ I have ever known. (I have known 7 rectories – 3 as a transitional...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 7, 2013 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Apr 7, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
When Yosef saw that his seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Eli, had gotten a tattoo on her arm, Yosef began to cry. It was not so much that Eli had gotten a tattoo. It was the nature of the tattoo she got. Eli’s tattoo was this sequence of numbers: 1-5-7-6-2-2 When...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 31, 2013 | Pastor's Pen
It feels like winter… It is hard to think about Easter after shoveling 13 inches of snow from the entrances to the church and rectory this morning. In a hemisphere where the arrival of spring is coterminous with the celebration of Easter, I miss the robins chirping...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 31, 2013 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Mar 31, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
A teacher was working with her first grade kids, trying to teach them about the seven last words that Jesus spoke on the cross. “Does anyone know the last words that Jesus spoke before he died?” she asked. Little Johnny, after a bit of a pause, raised his hands...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 28, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Much has been made in the media of our new dear Pope Francis. His style certainly has caught people’s attention. Perhaps it is merely the media fascination with something that is new. Or the media being introduced to what you and I know to be Christianity’s best kept...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 24, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Who cleaned up after the parade? Someone had to clear the streets after the triumphal entry. To make the road passable for the carts and donkeys and foot traffic. It is the part of parades that even now we don’t give much thought to. Picking up all that was left...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 24, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Imagine this retelling of the Palm Sunday Passion from the perspective of those who expected a military and political Savior – and that was almost everybody. For days, Jesus and his disciples meet secretly outside Jerusalem. They plan where their weapons will be...
