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…