What a year!

by | Dec 21, 2024 | Newsletter

At the end of the year, I want to extend my gratitude to all of you for your welcome and support. Thank you also to the legion of volunteers who contribute to the life of our parish. I am particularly grateful to Deacon Royden, Jasna Brdar, Gudrun Philipp, and the...

Rejoice, the Lord is near

by | Dec 14, 2024 | Newsletter

The liturgy of this Sunday, known as “Gaudete” Sunday, is a special invitation to us to joyfulness, to a vigilance that is not sad but happy. “Gaudete in Domino semper”, St Paul wrote: “Rejoice in the Lord always” (Phil 4:4)… In the all too often frenetic pace of...

Celebrate Advent at home

by | Dec 7, 2024 | Newsletter

Set up an Advent wreath: The Advent wreath is made of evergreens bound to a circle of wire. It symbolizes the many years from Adam to Christ in which the world awaited its Redeemer; it also represents the years that we have awaited His second and final coming. The...

The meaning of Advent

by | Nov 30, 2024 | Newsletter

The coming, or Advent, of Jesus is at once simple and threefold. It is simple, for it is the one same Son of God that is coming; it is threefold, because He comes at three different times and in three different ways. ‘In the first coming,’ says St. Bernard...

Christ is your King

by | Nov 23, 2024 | Newsletter

On the last Sunday of each liturgical year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, or Christ the King. Pope Pius XI instituted this feast in 1925 with his encyclical Quas primas (“In the first”) to respond to growing...