St. Mary’s parishioner Hank Jeffers recently completed his Eagle Scout project on the St. Mary campus. The project consists of a walking prayer path around the Mary statue behind the parish office. The path is in the shape of the Rosary and offers the faithful the opportunity to walk the steps as they say a […]
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We recently concluded the holy year of St. Joseph that was declared by our Holy Father Pope Francis. So on this Christmas-week feast of the Holy Family, as we contemplate the mystery of the birth of Christ, I also want to reflect on his role in the Holy Family of Nazareth and in our current
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My dad taught American history for a living, and so I have been immersed in it from childhood. Like many boys my age, I played cowboys and Indians growing up and imagined what it would be like for the pioneers expanding westward into the great wilderness beyond the Alleghenies in the days of the Wild
As we continue through this season of Advent, waiting with joy and hope for Christ to come again in glory, we also remember on this third Sunday Our Lady of Guadalupe. Although devotion to Our Lady under this title is most popular in Mexico where she appeared, there is a growing devotion to her throughout
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Last week, I wrote about the huge gap between the way most Christians celebrate the Advent season and the way the Gospels of Advent remind us to. I reflect on one of the Advent sermons of the great 19th Century English convert, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman. (You can read that sermon, Vol. IV, #22,
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