Father Joseph’s Messages

The word “synoptic” means giving an account of the events from the same point of view. The Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and Luke are called Synoptic Gospels. They are called so because they contain many of the same stories and similar sequence. While these three writers have written the Read more…

Tradition is something handed down from one generation to the next. Sacred Tradition is the living truth of Christ in common teaching, common life and common worship of the Church handed down through the centuries. The Apostles received a lot of unwritten teachings and traditions from Christ himself (cf. John Read more…

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus, This week on Thursday we celebrate our annual Thanksgiving Day. Though Thanksgiving Day is mostly thought of as a holiday spent with family or friends, it involves also reaching out to others and letting them know how much they mean to us. This day provides Read more…

The word “inspiration” is derived from the Latin word inspiratus which means “breathed into”. When we speak of the Bible as inspired, it refers to the fact that God influenced the human authors of the Sacred Scriptures in such a way that they wrote the Word of God. Hence the Read more…

I am interested to share with you a brief knowledge about the Bible. With this purpose, two weeks back I wrote about how the Old Testament of the Bible came about and why there is a difference in the number of Books between the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible. Read more…

I am happy that we could achieve great success by shouldering responsibility to organize an event like “Indian Buffet Dinner” held on Sunday, Oct.14th. Just as our Parish Picnic was organized by Larry Proulx, the Fund-raising events were organized by Gene & Nancy Kemmeter for many years. When they expressed Read more…

Many people think that the Bible was written by special men as being directly dictated by God. Though it might be easy and comfortable to think so, in fact, the stories in the Bible have been written by various authors. Even before the stories took the written-form, they were first Read more…

Bible consists of 72 Books with two Parts: Old Testament and New Testament. Old Testament narrates the Salvation History before Jesus Christ and the New Testament accounts for the Salvation History during and after Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the center of the Salvation History and the Bible is centered Read more…

If one would say that God directly handed over the complete Bible, it is wrong. In fact, we believe that over the centuries, God inspired the human authors of various Books of the Bible, to put in written word what God revealed to His people in history. “Inspired” means, God Read more…