Dear Parents, Family life is often a balancing act in which we prioritize and attend to a variety of competing needs. We learn the value of putting others’ needs ahead of our own. In family life we also learn that when we make personal sacrifices to serve others, we gain so much more than we…
By the Faithful Disciple GROW AS A DISCIPLE As we quickly approach Easter, we’re reminded of the reason why we are celebrating. God’s chosen people stumbled quite a bit throughout the Old Testament, so God intervened time, and time, and time again to set them back on the straight and narrow. Whereas we would likely…
Dear Parents, Next week, March 13th, is our Family of Parishes Penitential Service at St. Valentine. This is a great opportunity for the 8th graders to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation before the Sacrament of Confirmation. Any student that would like to attend can leave class early as long as I am told beforehand by…
By the Faithful Disciple GROW AS A DISCIPLE “The floor is lava!” We used to play this game as children, and it still seems popular today: you arrange furniture and other objects in such a way as to make it from point to point, and even room to room, without touching the floor. There may…
Thanks to Sodality members and all Parish members for the generous donations for desserts for the Parish Fish Fry. The table would be almost empty without everyone’s support. Hope everyone can make it to our meeting Monday March 4th. Doors open at 6:45 with the meeting starting at 7:00pm. We will have a Right to…
Dear Parents, Today’s Gospel invites us to reflect upon our worship of God. For Jesus and his Jewish contemporaries, the Temple was an important, holy place where they gathered to worship God. The Christian understanding of worship was transformed in light of Jesus’ Resurrection. In the Christian understanding, God is worshiped in a person, the…
By the Faithful Disciple GROW AS A DISCIPLE When I was a kid, my older siblings used to tell me what to do (no surprise there!) and often backed up their, ahem, “commands,” by saying, “Mom and Dad said so.” Interestingly, sometimes that statement was not true (!), and I would get the right information…