Spaghetti Dinner 2023
On Saturday, October 14, 2023 @ 5:00 PM a festive spaghetti dinner will be held to raise funds for the 2024 Youth Mission Trip. Please let us know if you are attending…
Readings and Reflections for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
Joshua 5:9-12 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Dear Friends, Luke’s Gospel gives us the precious story popularly called “The Prodigal Son,” although the true central figure is the Loving Father,…
Readings and Reflections for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
1 Samuel 2:1-10 Hebrews 10:11-25 Mark 13:1-8 1 Samuel contains the “Song of Hannah”. Hannah receives the gift of a firstborn son, and expresses her gratitude and amazement at the…
Readings and Reflections on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost
1 Kings 19:4-8 Psalm 34:1-8 Ephesians 4:25 – 5:2 John 6:35, 41-51 In this reading from 1 Kings, the prophet Elijah is fed and encouraged by the intervention of angels…
Readings and Reflections for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Exodus 16:2-4,9-15 Psalm 78:23-29 Ephesians 4:1-16 John 6:24-35 In the reading from Exodus we hear the story of the people of Israel complaining in the wilderness after the escape from…
Readings and Reflections for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
2 King 4:42-44 Psalm 145:10-19 Ephesians 3:14-21 John 6:1-21 Dear Friends, In 2 Kings we have the story of Elijah who has twenty barley loaves to set before one hundred people. They all ate…
Readings and Reflections for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Lamentations3:21-33 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 Mark 5:21-43 Lamentations 3 contains a powerful affirmation of God’s daily love and mercy that never end. When we fail to understand what we are experiencing, or perhaps…
Pentecost and the Slow Work of God
A Jesuit priest and scientist named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote something about the slow work of God that I like very much. He said:“Above all, trust in the slow…
Readings and Reflections for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
Numbers 21:4-9 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 The reading from Numbers describes the people of Israel who are grumbling against God’s leadership and provision as they declare, “we detest this miserable food.” The…
What are you doing for Lent?
Are you “giving up something?” Are you “taking up” something? A little of both? Some things to consider: Take up a book. A classic on the core practices…