Pastoral Council Meeting-The next Pastoral Council meeting will be Monday, May 16th, 6:30pm, at our Whitney Point Church Hall.  If anyone may have anything they would like brought up at the meeting, please contact Mary at the Parish Office by Thursday, May 12th, at Noon.

“And they knew him in the breaking of the bread…” The story of the road to Emmaus is familiar to most of us. We know that two of Jesus’ disciples, walking along that lonely road, were deeply discouraged.  They believed that their Rabbi and Master was dead, gone forever.  Yet…

Can you just picture the frightened disciples not sure if they also would be killed or if they lived; what they would do with their lives now that Jesus was gone? Then He appears in their midst, though the doors were locked. His first words: “Peace be with you!“ Three…

My father, as he lay in his bed, slowly dying of cancer, said sadly to me “I thought I was going to live forever.” He had been converted at an evangelical event as a youth, and had spent his life being the best Christian he knew how to be. Now,…

Palm Sunday is the beginning of Holy Week, a week rich in meaning and purpose. From the moment of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the moment he gave up his life on the cross, we are given a multitude of examples that we can apply to our own daily…

Most of us who have lived more than a few years have experienced death in one form or another.  Maybe we’ve lost a loved one.  Perhaps we’ve lost a job.  All losses, when deeply felt, result in suffering.  We often become like Martha and Mary and their friends, who wailed at the…

Vision, eyesight—something most of us take for granted. But there are several different kinds of sight although they all really do involve “seeing.” For some kinds of “sight,” though “understanding” may be a better choice of word. In today’s gospel physical eyesight was what the blind man asked for. Sometimes…

After our recent big snowfall, I was walking the narrow path to the house, when I slipped off the packed trail, lost my balance and fell into in the deep stuff. Struggling to regain my footing, I looked up to see my husband holding out a supporting hand to me….

One morning last week I woke up very early.  We had left the windows in our camper open during the night because it was quite warm in Winter Haven, Florida where we are vacationing.  As I looked out the window, I noticed that the sky was a beautiful rose color…

Nearly everyone, whether they’ve actually been to a desert or not, can relate to today’s gospel story of Jesus’ temptations.  We’ve all been in “the desert,“ and experienced our own sort of “desert trials” when hard times come, either through life’s personal losses, family conflicts, or other events where we feel alone,…