Pastor’s Message February 25, 2018
The recent tragedy of Parkland will be indelibly etched in our minds for the rest of our lives. It happened too close to home, and the predictable reactions of many affected people have been displayed...
View ArticlePastor’s Message March 4th, 2018
We hear many people today describing themselves as “spiritual, but not religious”: They welcome experiences of the ethereal but reject the demands of religion. In my opinion, this reduces God to a...
View ArticlePastor’s Message March 11th, 2018
On Holy Saturday, the Catholic Church throughout the United States will receive tens of thousands of men and women into the Church. We will be among those parishes who will welcome new members at a...
View ArticlePastor’s Message March 18th, 2018
In the teaching of the Catholic Church, a mortal (or “deadly”) sin is a gravely sinful act, which can lead to damnation if a person does not repent of the sin before death. The term “mortal sin” is...
View ArticlePastor’s Message March 25th, 2018
Today is Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord. It begins with Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem and ends with his triumph over sin and death. God’s love didn’t design the human heart to hold...
View ArticlePastor’s Message April 1, 2018
Our Easter celebration is the culmination of a forty-day journey through Lent, the celebration of which was intensified in the final week we just concluded, in the powerful ceremonies of Holy Week. The...
View ArticlePastor’s Message April 8th, 2018
This Sunday, the Universal Church celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday. For the past 17 years, the Catholic Church has celebrated this feast on the 2nd Sunday of Easter. Pope St. John Paul II extended this...
View ArticlePastor’s Message April 15th, 2018
The Gospel this weekend probably is in reverse order in time to that of the story of last week, where the other Apostles told Thomas that “they had, indeed, seen the Lord.” In this week’s story, the...
View ArticlePastor’s Message April 22nd, 2018
(Letter from Deacon “Rusty” Keith Skinner) To My Parish Family and Friends, I cannot begin to tell you all how much your love, support and prayers have meant to me and my girls, both over this past...
View ArticlePastor’s Message April 29th, 2018
It’s with great joy and a tinge of sadness that we bid Deacon Matthew Hawkins a very fond ‘farewell” this weekend. His assignment at our parish for most of this year has ended, and he has come to that...
View ArticlePastor’s Message May 6th, 2018
In the Bible, Psalm 1 describes two paths or ways from which to choose in life. Serving as a preface to the whole Book of Psalms, Psalm 1 uses striking similes to contrast the destiny of the good and...
View ArticlePastor’s Message May 13th, 2018
In place of my usual weekly article, the following excerpts are from an essay by Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, CEO and President of Canada’s Salt and Light Media Foundation: Being Pro-life is one of the...
View ArticlePastor’s Message May 20th
Today we celebrate the great Feast of Pentecost -one of the three most important feasts in the Church calendar- when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and breathed into them the power of...
View ArticlePastor’s Message May 27th, 2018
Several of our young St. Vincent Ferrer parishioners, were among this year’s Catholic high school graduates, and most of them have received special recognition and were awarded numerous scholarships...
View ArticlePastor’s Message June 3rd, 2018
In many places, this Sunday features the (moved) Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. On this solemn feast we are called above all to have faith in the fact (as revealed by the Lord...
View ArticlePastor’s Message June 17th, 2018
During the month of June, we celebrate two special occasions which expound upon the real love that a Father has for his children. One, logically, is Father’s Day, celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June....
View ArticlePastor’s Message June 24th, 2018
Today’s message is excerpted from a letter on Corpus Christi Sunday by the Archbishop of Edinburgh and St. Andrews in Scotland to his flock. I invite you to read it and reflect upon it. My Dear...
View ArticlePastor’s Message July 1st, 2018
I’m glad to welcome to the service of our parish, Deacon K. Greg Osgood, who was ordained for service to the Archdiocese of New York (just as deacon Frank was), and who has moved to our area with his...
View ArticlePastor’s Message July 8, 2018
Well, our parish school students are into the middle of our summer vacation. Many families are away for much of the summer, which means weekly attendance at Mass is down, as usual for this time of...
View ArticlePastor’s Message July 15th, 2018
Some religions are superior to others, and, in my belief, Christianity is the best; and of the Christian denominations, I believe that Catholicism is the best. Yes, I know this isn’t really politically...
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