2011 09-04 Farewell Father Diosmar Natad
Septemeber 4, 2011 He came to the office on Friday morning, smiling with that normal ‘Father D” smile…but was a bit groggy. He had landed Thursday afternoon at Hartsfield-Jackson, returning from his vacation. He had spent several weeks visiting family in the Philippines. So, he showed up at Saint Brigid…happy…but a bit groggy. He was…
2011 08-27 Book Study with Monsignor David
August 21, 2011 BOOK STUDY WITH MONSIGNOR DAVID “Each and every disciple of the Lord Jesus is called to a life of ongoing formation and renewal. One of the ways that I have been able to enter into this ongoing formation and renewal is through reading…reading great books. Beginning this fall, I will offer a…
2011 08-14 Saint Brigid as a Family
August 14, 2011 Saint Brigid as a Family As Saint Brigid is nearing four thousand registered households, the question leaps out at me: can such a large number of people livethe life…as a family? If you read the history of the early Church of Christ (as seen in the books of the New Testament), it…
2011 08-07 Taking a Look at the Week Ahead
August 7, 2011 Taking a look at the week ahead Many of our parents have spoken to me, worrying that their teens either fight them at coming to Mass with the family, or on coming to Mass, find it boring and a complete waste of time. Some of our parishioners attending Mass…for whatever reason…come late…
2011 07-31 Be Not Afraid
July 31, 2011 When we hear read the news of the world, it’s very clear that there are a lot of people who live in a constant state of fear. With a world torn by conflicts, terrorism, hunger, pandemic health issues, it is easy to see the source of this fear. Often we are paralyzed…
2011 07-24 Monsignor David Talley’s Book Study – The Fulfillment of All Desire
July 24, 2011 “Each and every disciple of the Lord Jesus is called to a life of ongoing formation and renewal. One of the ways that I have been able to enter into this ongoing formation and renewal is through reading…reading great books. Beginning this fall, I will offer a book study club experience for…
2011 07-17 The Eucharist
July 17, 2011 ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR MORE? You are traveling along and you feel hunger pains and your stomach growls, what do you do? Or your mouth is dry and you feel your thirst is unquenchable, what do you do? The answer is quite simple: you head to the nearest source of food…
2011 07-10 Day School
July 10, 2011 There have been many joys in these first four months with you. One joy is in having the little ones here every day, those youngest ones enrolled in our Day School. To offer these little ones a Christ-centered environment of love is such a blessing for our young families. I have asked…
2011 07-03 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal
July 3, 2011 Many of us have heard that a new translation of the Roman Missal will go into effect November 27, the First Sunday of Advent. There are some of us who are old enough to remember the transition after Vatican II, when the Missal was translated from the Latin to English so that…
2011 06-19 Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP)
June 19, 2011 During the month of May, seventy of our parishioners attended the Christ Renews His Parish weekends here at Saint Brigid. One weekend was for our women and the other for our men. I had the privilege of attending portions of both weekends and Monsignor David asked me to give you my thoughts…
2011 06-12 Pentecost
June 12, 2011 He leaves yet remains The man from Nazareth had formed a small fellowship of pilgrims and was loved as a brother and a mentor and a leader. After being welcomed by many to a week of Passover in Jerusalem, the songs of celebration turned into wails of mourning. He had been railroaded…
2011 06-05
June 5, 2011 The summer months Many of us…of a certain age…have always thought of June, July and August as the months of summer; and summer meant: no school, lots of playing outdoors, baseball, maybe a vacation with family, maybe a camp with the scouts or the Y and if you were lucky, a summer…
2011 05-29 Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
May 29, 2011 The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd In the 1950’s, she was a lay-scripture scholar at a time when Catholic scholarship was mostly that of the ordained or the vowed religious variety. She was a linguist, reading the revealed sacred scriptures in the languages of revelation…Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic. This laywoman, Sofia…
2011 05-22 Disabilities ministry
May 22, 2011 A ministry with and for those among usliving with disabilities In the second reading at today’s Mass, we will hear the Word of God speak to us, inviting each of us… like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable…
2011 05-15 Vestments
May 15, 2011 In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, we are instructed that as the work of Christ, [the] liturgy is also an action of His Church. It makes the Church present and manifests her as the visible sign of the communion in Christ between God and men (1071); and quoting the Bishops of…
2011 05-08 Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP)
May 8, 2011 In 2007, two of our parishioners, Bob Wood and Nick Bain, attended a Christ Renews His Parish weekend at St. Andrew Parish in Roswell. They attended this retreat at the direction of our Pastor, Monsignor Paul Reynolds. Upon completion of their weekend, Bob and Nick reported back to Monsignor Reynolds and shortly…
2011 05-01 Divine Mercy Sunday & Blessed John Paul II
May 1, 2011 For eight days, we Roman Catholics celebrate the two great solemnities of our Christ-centered liturgical calendar: His birth, at Christmas and His Resurrection, at Easter. For eight days each December, I enjoy wishing all a Merry Christmas! The folks at the stores and restaurants don’t know how to deal with this Catholic…
2011 04-24 Easter Sunday…Toni’s Camp
April 24, 2011 Broken but redeemed. Broken and redeemed. These three words…broken and redeemed… describe us at Easter: broken =a description of our shared humanity “after the Fall”, after sin became our partner, the nemesis of our happiness; redeemed = saved from destruction, saved from ourselves, bought at a price…by His obedience. On this Easter…
2011 04-17 Holy Week
April 17, 2011 Though we have a great devotion for the saints and though we embrace the beauty of the great basilicas that have been built throughout our history and all over the world, as places for worship, our Catholic Church is founded on the blessed gift of one man…the son of Mary…God’s own Son…Jesus…
2011 04-10 Lenten Mission
April 10, 2011 I AM…the resurrection and the life (John 11.25). On this fifth Sunday of holy Lent, the Lord Jesus proclaims boldly, that He, the son of Mary…He is the fulfillment of God’s promises, that He is Son of the Father, Son of the I AM that spoke to Moses in the epiphany of…
2011 04-03 Laetare Sunday
April 3, 2011 This is Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent. On this fourth Sunday of Lent, the clerics of the Church will wear Rose colored vestments (if parishes have rose vestments), to distinguish this Sunday from the other Sundays of holy Lent. The Latin word laetare means “rejoice”. It is taken from the…
2011 03-27 Thirsting for righteousness
March 27, 2011 We don’t know her name. She was from Samaria, and her people and their customs were rejected by the righteous of Israel. But when Jesus met her, he didn’t reject her. When he saw her drawing water at a well, he turned to her and said give me a drink. *** In…
2011 03-20 What to do during Lent
March 20, 2011 He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus…(2 Timothy 1.9). This Pauline epistle, proclaimed at Mass today, reminds us that the blessings promised to Abraham have been made manifest through…
2011 03-13 Lent
March 13, 2011 We are beginning the holy season of Lent, a liturgical season for metanoia…for conversion of mind and heart. Holy Lent, indeed all of Christian life, is a meditation on the paschal mystery, the life and death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and a desire to begin again, in following the Way….
2011 03-06 Reminder about Future Pastor’s Corner
March 6, 2011 Please watch for future columns from Monsignor David. He will share his reflections on how together we can help to build the Kingdom of God.
2011 02-27 Introduction
February 27, 2011 At all the Masses this weekend, the parish family of Saint Brigid will hear about this year’s Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. We will be asked to contribute to the work of the Archbishop’s curia (the ministerial arm of his Episcopal ministry). In a way, this is a perfect Sunday for me to join…