The Pastor's Desk
Today we appeal for your generosity on this Development and Peace Solidarity Sunday. Your donation will be used to help our sisters and brothers all over the world – from Lebanon to Cambodia, to Nigeria and beyond. The theme of this year’s Share Lent Campaign “Together For Peace” invites us...Read more
At the Last Supper Jesus told His disciples that they would abandon Him in His hour of need. Then He turned to Peter and said, “I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers” (Lk. 22:32). He knew...Read more
Do you know how important prayers of intercession are to God? One look at the Lord’s Prayer may be all you need. In that prayer, Jesus taught us to ask for many important things: for people to see God’s glory and worship Him; for people to embrace God’s plan; for...Read more
The Church has always asked us to pay attention to three specific areas in our lives – the upward, the inward and the outward. The upward aspect has to do with our relationship with Jesus. It involves our commitment of prayer, reading Scripture, receiving the Eucharist, repenting of our sins...Read more
The Church prays and invites everyone to ensure that love will prevail over hatred, peace over war, truth over falsehood and forgiveness over revenge. The Holy Father encourages us to pray and fast for peace. Lent is a time set aside by the Church for prayer, fasting and almsgiving in...Read more
Wednesday, February 14th marks the beginning of the season of LENT, our annual forty day journey with the Lord. We renew and deepen our commitment to follow Christ closely to the Cross so that we might share the fullness of life with Him. Lent has two major purposes: it recalls...Read more
It is important for us to become more familiar with Holy Scriptures. Last week you received a bookmark to help you reflect on the scriptures. Four basic questions were presented: 1) What does it say? - determine as closely as possible the literal meaning of the text – what do...Read more
It is a constant temptation of human nature to want to get a grip on God so that He will have to do our will. We are tempted to seek rites, formulas, timetables and methods of controlling God, of bending Him to become our servant instead of Our Lord and...Read more
The Sunday Eucharist is a celebration composed of five parts, each essential to the prayer of the Mass. The Introductory Rites, Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of the Eucharist, Communion and the Concluding Rites. The Introductory Rites serve as an introduction and preparation for the Liturgy of the Word and...Read more
Jesus the Sacrament: Our loving Father sent His Son to become a man in order to save us. He gave us Jesus as the image and sign of His love for us, as the visible sign of the God we cannot see. Jesus is the sign and sacrament of the...Read more