Fr. Joe’s Blog

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Holy Day, without Obligation in 2020 Saturday, August 15, 2020, Catholics celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday, August 15, 2020. This is a Holy Day, but without...

APOLOGY This message is not for everyone.  Unfortunately, many are relieved that bishops have given dispensations to the faithful not to attend Sunday Mass.  For a multitude of others, who don’t believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist any longer, they...

CORPUS CHRISTI REFLECTION Dear Parishioners, This Sunday is the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ.  We will have our Mass this weekend professionally recorded in the church and emailed to you Saturday afternoon.  If you are home...

HOLY TRINITY – UNITY IN THE FACE OF DIVISION The death of Mr. George Floyd is tragic.  The murder of Mr. George Floyd is wrong.  Those who committed the murder are wrong, either by acts of omission or acts of commission.  To say that we should all be treated and treat...

EFFECTIVE MAY 16, 2020 UNTIL FURTHER NOTICECHURCH TO OPEN FOR PRAYER AND RECONCILIATION Private Prayer in Church Saturday: 3pm til 6pm | Sunday: 9 am til NoonMonday through Friday: Noon til 5 pm Reconciliation  (not in the church)Saturday: 3:30 pm til 5:30 pm |...

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - 2020 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him.” This verse...

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER – 2020 The Gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday of Easter is always taken from one of three sections of St. John chapter 10: verses 1-10 (year A),  11-18 (year B) or  27-30 (year C).   The consistent theme is that Jesus is our Good Shepherd. A...

Third Sunday Of Easter – Year A The Road To Emmaus In the Gospel resurrection stories the disciples consistently fail to recognize Jesus when He appeared to them.  Mary Magdalene thought He was a gardener.  The disciples on the seashore of Tiberias thought He was a...

Post-Easter Reflections on Christ’s Resurrection In the first 300 years of our Catholic faith, the Fathers of the Church wrote profound homilies on the teaching passed to us from the Apostles.  The following is a paraphrase from an ancient homily whose author is...

GOOD FRIDAY REFLECTION SUFFERING I ENDURE FOR YOU Sr. Charles, S.S.N.D. was my favorite CCD teacher.  Whenever we endured any sacrifices or problems, she would say to us, “Offer it up.”  What did the nuns mean when they exhorted us to this type of prayer? St. Paul...