Religious Education - Children
Catechist BlogMother’s Day
A word of advice to everyone: if you can’t remember whether or not you called your mother, you didn’t. But what about when your mom doesn’t remember if you called? And it has only been five minutes. My mom was of solid pioneer stock from families that settled in Utah...
A Place For Us
In 2019, the year before the pandemic, long lines of climbers jammed the base of Mount Everest, leaving tons of garbage across the Himalayas. But, this year, with no visitors due to COVID-19, local Sherpas have been working to restore the environment. As part of the...
The Challenge of Love: Service
Even though we are in the fourth week of the Easter season, today’s gospel passage takes us back to the night when Jesus ate and drank with His friends and prepared them for the new Passover. There is no mention of the blessing of bread and wine. Instead, Jesus gives...
Starting Again
Today’s Gospel serves as a bridge between the Johannine account of the public ministry of Jesus and beginning of his passion and glorification. The verses close out the section of John’s gospel referred to as the “Book of Signs”. Changing water into wine at Cana (John...
Belonging
It’s a late December day in Jerusalem. Jesus is walking in the Temple area, and as usual, He's drawing a crowd during the Feast of the Dedication (better known to us as Hanukkah). The people have come with a question. Perhaps they’ve heard one of Jesus’s enigmatic...
First Communion 2021
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God Mad Me Do It
“God made me do it!” This is Peter’s answer and justification for eating with “unclean” Gentiles in today’s 1st reading from the Acts of the Apostles. Some Jewish Christians had accused Peter: “You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.” We...
Learning Process
There is a saying that perhaps you have already heard: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” In other words, when we are told how to do things, we will forget sooner if not later. When we are taught how to do things, we may...
Parish Return to Mass Survey
We are in the “between times” of this pandemic. It is encouraging that vaccinations are more widely available even as the covid statistics are up and down. But we are hopeful and possibly seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. As a staff we are beginning to plan...