From Our Pastor: Friends; My first Christmas here in our combined parishes has been truly a blessed celebration for me! Your kindness expressed in cards, presents, delicious baked goods and your smiling faces and laughter have made this Season truly Joyous! In addition, your deep spirituality expressed in our worship…

Brothers and Sisters: Here we are! Just a couple of days from Christmas. We’ve been waiting and preparing and now the time has come to celebrate and ANNOUNCE! Jesus Christ is born! John the Baptist did this announcing, strangely in the desert. The desert is empty, nothing to see, pretty…

From Our Pastor Brothers and Sisters: This weekend we celebrate Gaudete Sunday, the Third Week of Advent, or Joyful Sunday. Although Advent is a penitential season, we take the time now to reflect on all the gifts God has freely given us and that causes us great JOY! The gifts…

From Our Pastor: 2nd Sunday Of Advent 2021 Last Weekend We Spoke About The Call To Wait. But As Troublesome As That Can Sometimes Be, It Doesn’t Mean To Be Idle Or Passive In Our Waiting. The Scriptures Are Today Calling Our Waiting To Be Active! Active In Announcing What…

From Our Pastor Advent 2021 I arrived here July 1. I can hardly believe it already Advent! And yet, here we are. We have two different callings in Advent; wait and prepare! Neither one can be ignored. Waiting is essential and beneficial. We know this from many aspects of our…

From Our Pastor: Peace! We as Americans, because of our history, are not generally disposed to embracing the idea of Kingship. We fought a war over it! And yet, this last weekend of our Liturgical Year, our Church celebrates the Kingship of Jesus Christ and asks us to again, embrace…

From Our Pastor – November 14, 2021 Brothers and Sisters: Throughout our lives, we’ve heard from lots of seers and false prophets of doom and gloom. Remember when the calendar turned from 1999 to 2000? It was predicted that everything was going to stop, the electric grid, airplanes, entertainment, etc….

From Our Pastor: The age-old adage, “it is more blessed to give than to receive,” is the central truth of our Scripture lesson in our Weekend Liturgy. The woman in the book of Kings provides for Elijah and her generosity is holy. The woman in the Temple gave a small…

From Our Pastor: Throughout our lives, we seek happiness, which we believe ultimately is Union with our God, Creator, Redeemer, and Holy Spirit. We anticipate this to be Heaven and Eternal life. This is a holy hope and one we must always seek and cherish. However, at times, we are…

Spiritual Sight The blind man in today’s gospel asks Jesus to heal him, “I want to see!” Don’t we all! Our blindness is real even if we have 20/20 eyesight. We often look in the wrong places to find that which we seek most; holiness and happiness. Why is this…