Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, COME, LORD JESUS, COME! Talk About Confusing! You may have heard rumblings and conflicting or at least confusing reports about the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of why it’s an issue, be my guest. But as it is, this feast is a holy day of obligation, but December 8 falls on Sunday this year, so the feast is bumped to the next day December 9th. Also bumped with it is its obligatory status. So, this year December 9th IS a Holy Day of obligation.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, State of the Parish and Finance Report Over the past few years due to covid, and a year has passed since the mandate that required us to change our Mass schedule, it has been a time of transition. As we come to the end of the liturgical year and prepare for Advent, this is a good time to review how we are fulfilling our mission and to report to the parish our financial status. This weekend at all the Masses I will give my thoughts and parish financial report will be made available.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Faith Formation this Sunday 9:15-10:15 The past couple sessions have led us deeper in personal prayer. We continue this theme regarding spirituality and look now to the Sacrifice of the Mass. How does one engage and enter into the Mass? How does it become a fount of grace for our spiritual growth? Join us as we delve ever deeper into these questions and more! The title for this week is Lift Up Your Hearts: Praying the Mass.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Prayer and Penance for Country Should Continue At the time of this writing (November 5), the winners of the elections is not yet determined. Regardless of which candidates are elected, we must not ignore the real threats to the dignity of the human person and the common good. There is much work to be done to foster life, truth, and virtue in our nation’s politics. We cannot ignore or simply watch from the sidelines. Our Lord calls us to be in the world and not of the world. He sends us out as sheep amongst the wolves. Yet we trust our Divine Shepherd, Who is King of the world, and thus king of every nation, whether its citizenry believe it or not.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Election Day Parish Prayer Schedule Election day is a great blessing in our country since it is a gift that we can peaceably elect our leaders in our country. Remember it is a Catholic’s duty to participate in politics in order to promote the common good based upon the dignity of the human person. Refraining from voting is allowable but only for a grave reason. Not to give the effort to discern and vote would be a sin of omission. How one votes and for which races and candidates one votes are not dictated by Church authority, but one must discern according to Catholic teaching with a formed conscience