I hope your Valentine’s Day was a good one. Liturgically the Church celebrated the feast day of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. They were great evangelizers to the Slavic people. As they brought Jesus to a people that did not know Him; they brought Love itself and the Good News of Read more
Meetings can be about many things. When we have the Sacred Worship committee meeting that touches many in the parish as gathering for Mass is a foundational experience. It is all about prayer and our connection to God and one another. In the Lenten season we have more opportunities for Read more
What a great moment of unity with our Bishop for the Mass held at St. Bronislava that concluded this year’s celebration of National Catholic Schools Week. The schools held many events for the students to enjoy. As the larger faith community, praying for our schools and seeing them as one Read more
I am writing this long before I leave for vacation. As we look to a new year, a thought is about funerals, since I am celebrating two of them before I leave. When you see a note in the bulletin or read an obituary, why not offer a prayer for Read more
We are jumping right into January and entering a new season with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. This feast is exactly what the title is. It is by baptism that we enter the life of grace that God offers to us. For Jesus it is the beginning Read more
Merry Christmas! Happy feast of the Epiphany! Both are true. We are in the season of Christmas until next week when we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord. Then we begin Ordinary time, the season we focus on Jesus’ actions and teachings in the Gospel. Epiphany closes out the Jubilee Read more
We gather on Gaudete Sunday, a day that we are called to rejoice. We are that much closer to Jesus’ birth. We have been helped all that much more through God’s grace these last few weeks in this season of preparation. This week itself is a time of mercy. There Read more
This weekend at St. Peter is the Rosary Society bake sale. So if you want to start your Advent sweetly, that is one way to do it. Monday the 8th of December is a Holy Day of obligation, our patronal feast day for our country. School Mass is at 8am. Read more
Advent! It begins this Sunday. A new liturgical year. A time to reflect on our God coming to us, in the flesh as one of us. There are rich readings that I encourage you to spend time with seeing how God prepared for the coming of His Son and for Read more
November 16th is the annual Potato Pancake breakfast at St. Casimir. I invite everyone to stop out and enjoy! After the 10:30 Mass at St. Peter is a meeting for the Rome pilgrimage in 2026 for our 150th anniversary as a parish. We have a few spots left and I Read more