Posts by Father Michael Penn
From the Pastor’s Desk: 8 September 2024
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time In the darkness and depths of life’s difficulties, God is there, whether we recognize it or not, to care for us and accompany us…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 1 September 2024
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Best wishes to each of you—parishioners and guests alike— for a safe and Happy Labor Day. This day we celebrate a gift as we…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 25 August 2024
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Thursday morning—August 2nd— the traffic on HH was significantly backed up due to an auto accident. How uncomfortable I felt as this trek was…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 18 August 2024
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom has prepared for us a banquet of food and wine: a sign that God desires communion with us. Wisdom gives us pillars—His divine…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 11 August 2024
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Get rid of everything that prevents us from being in relationship with God and with each other. It is difficult to forgive, yet God…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 4 August 2024
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time To the Israelite community, God provided bread for His people in the desert. For us, His children, He gives us Bread from heaven, His…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 28 July 2024
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time God feeds us with His very self: His Body and His Blood. Unlike feeding Israel in the desert journey with manna, a substance promised…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 21 July 2024
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus invites His apostles to a deserted place and rest awhile: in His company and in communion with one another. The meaning of deserted…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 14 July 2024
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time As Christians, each of us are called from being a follower to a leader. By our Baptism, we have been anointed as “…priests, prophets…
Read MoreFrom the Pastor’s Desk: 7 July 2024
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Often, Jesus was met with rejection, not only from the people of the towns and villages, but from His own family. We, too, will…
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