by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Mar 8, 2021 | Parish Blog, Weekly-Email
The first Clean Up Day of 2021 was a huge success! Over 35+ bags of litter were removed from around the parish. Please join the Care for Creation Ministry on Saturday, March 27th from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 for our second Adopt-a-Spot Clean Up Day of the year. Please meet...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Mar 8, 2021 | Friar Reflection
“It’s mine you can’t have it!” I am sure that we have heard these words at times from a petulant child or perhaps we have even heard ourselves speaking these words. Certainly, Christians have spoken these words although in a more refined or theological langue:...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Mar 6, 2021 | Friar Reflection
The prophet Micah preached to Jerusalem, but he was not from the city. He was an outsider from the farming village of Moresheth in the Judean foothills. You can imagine how the people, priests, and temple prophets received his prophecies of death, doom, pestilence and...
by Fr. Lalo Jara OFM | Mar 5, 2021 | Friar Reflection
God can make good things happen even from evil. Our First Reading relates how Joseph’s brothers plotted against him. The Responsorial Psalm describes how God used the events in Joseph’s life for the people of Israel. And, in the Gospel, Jesus relates a parable which...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Mar 4, 2021 | Friar Reflection
Martin Rios is a TSA officer at Portland International Airport – the Portland that is in Oregon. He was called to the checkpoint to translate for a Spanish-speaking family who was lost and confused. He learned that they had been stuck overnight in the airport. The...