Over the past few months, several people have expressed interest in learning more about the results from the "Disciple Maker Index" survey our parishes participated in last year. This survey focused...

In what ways have our lives grown stagnant, cold or dark? Our celebration of Easter becomes more meaningful when we can see how it connects with our daily lives. It has been a long...

As a priest for over forty years now, I have had many questions come to me about matters of faith that originated in discussions around the water cooler or coffee machine at the work place. It is usually not the...

Those who participated in the Lenten Mission last week I'm sure will join me in extending our gratitude to Patrick Nolan, SJ, who did a phenomenal job encouraging and guiding us in spiritual exercises! I’d also like to.....

One thing that has been clear to Fr. Bill and I for some time is that the adults in our collaborative parishes are hungry for opportunities to strengthen and grow in their spiritual and religious understanding on an adult level.....

Feeling weighed down by the Lenten language of sin and repentance? Wishing we could go back to last year's Jubilee focus on God's mercy? Well you can, because...

Many pastors have faced the challenge of discovering colonies of bats making themselves at home in the belfry of a church steeple. One ingenious pastor, after trying every exterminator he could find, hit upon a novel idea. He....

Loving Father, I invite you into my life today and make myself available to you....

​​​​​​​The above line from a Lenten hymn comes to my mind each year as we prepare not only for Ash Wednesday but for our Lenten journey to Holy Week and the Easter celebrations.....

That might be the underlying question in our lives over the next ten days as Ash Wednesday approaches on March 1. The Latin word “Lent”...

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for this life together, for the gift of love, and the blessing of our marriage. We give you praise for the joy you've poured into our hearts through this love we share. Thank you for....

What Is a "Stewardship" Calendar Anyway? A year ago the wall calendars we gave out, with help from local sponsors, were focused on our Holy Father, Pope Francis. That theme meant that they included joyful....

Motivated by Hope. In the latest Star Wars movie, Rogue One, a new character is introduced: a droid (robot) named K- 2SO, who tends.....

Over the past few weeks, several parish and collaborative projects have been accomplished that you should know about. To improve your ease of access to the most current information about our parishes, for months we have been planning and preparing an upgrade to our parish websites, and just before Christmas our new websites were launched!....

One of the gifts the Lord blessed our collaborative with this Christmas was a new Director of Music Ministries for St. Mary Parish,

Everything in this life is ultimately a gift from God, so our gratitude always starts with Him - especially for the gift of His Son Jesus. From time to time, though, people need ...

The holidays are haunted days, Peopled by our yesterdays.....

On behalf of the Pastoral Team of Priests, Dea­cons and lay ministers serving St. Martha Parish and St. Mary Parish, I pray that you know how grateful we are...

Before we get to Christmas I want to catch up on a few practical things: the commemorative bricks for St. Mary garden...

Today we celebrate Gaudete Sunday - the word is the command form of "Rejoice!" taken from the beginning of the