Category: Pastor’s Note

   During this third week of Lent, we begin our half-way point of this holy season.  We are aware that we are weak, we fail and we sin.  We turn to God for strength and healing for we are keenly aware of our need for his mercy and forgiveness.  We are also aware that at… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette 3/7/21

   We move from the words of Ash Wednesday “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return” to the words of the Gospel of this Sunday, “The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”     Here we find Jesus spending forty days in the desert to be tempted.… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette 2/28/21

We move from the words of Ash Wednesday “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return” to the words of the Gospel of this Sunday, “The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”     Here we find Jesus spending forty days in the desert to be tempted. Yet… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette 2/21/21

As we finish our 6th week of Ordinary Time, we ready our minds and hearts for our Lenten journey beginning February 17 on Ash Wednesday.  For many, this is a familiar journey and yet can be an entirely new experience for us.  The best way to approach this journey is as if this were our… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette for 2/14/21

As faith-filled people, we trust in God’s mercy and love as we gather together in prayer with God’s word and life-giving Eucharist. However, on some days and we might feel like Job did in our first reading. We want to agree with Job: “Woe is me.” But the Gospel gives us hope in the healing… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette 2/7/21…

   In the Sacred Scripture of this weekend we hear stories of being called: called to follow, called to conversion, called to repentance, and called to discipleship. We are challenged to reflect on how we listen to God’s call in our everyday lives.  Is He calling us to something new, to something more or something… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette 1/24/21

   With the Christmas season officially behind us, we now enter into five weeks of Ordinary Time.  Yet, it is in the days of our ordinary lives, that God does invite us to be his disciples and build his Kingdom.       This search and invitation can be welcoming and intriguing: “What are you looking for?”… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette 1/17/21

Today we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of our Lord and the culmination of the Christmas season.  Rising from the Jordan River, Jesus heard: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased”.  God utters these same words over each person baptized since that day.  We are all challenged to come to… Continue reading Thoughts from Sr. Lucette 1/10/21