8-28-2022--This weekend we are blessed to be hosting Fr. Alan Bower representing Cross Catholic Outreach. This official Catholic ministry was founded to link parishes in the U.S. with priests, religious brothers and sisters, and laypeople working in Church missions overseas. Its programs span the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
A special announcement St. Anne’s will begin to offer the Vigil Mass each Saturday evening at 4:00pm beginning in September. As everyone is aware, we are facing a shortage of Priests in the Archdiocese. Currently, all of the Parishes in our Family, offer the Vigil Mass at 5:00pm. In the event of an emergency, it would be impossible for a Priest within the family to assist at St. Anne’s or for the Priest of St. Anne’s to help at another Parish. And so, it was decided within the Family of Priests that St. Anne’s would offer the Vigil Mass each week at 4:00pm so that
8-14-2022--We hear the theme of “fire” for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Actually, each of us stand together on the night of the Easter Vigil bless the fire. The fire of the love that comes to us from the passion and is then shone to us in the light of the Baptismal candle. When we grow closer and closer in our relationship with the Lord, the light and fire that comes from the Holy Spirit burns within us. As we invite others into a relationship with the Lord, we help to set their hearts on fire with the light and love of the Lord. So that they can become both a “messenger” and “inviter” to others.
08-07-2022--We hear in this weekend’s Gospel, that Jesus was preparing our ancestors in faith for Passover. (He does this for each of us as well.) Yet, we do not know the date or the hour, so we must make it part of our life to spend time “preparing.” To stop ourselves from the busyness of life and prepare, requires faith. (Also, it requires patience.) Indeed, our faith, helps us to “prepare.” Remember this beautiful definition of faith … “faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.”