Dear Friends,

The US Bishops have initiated a two-year Eucharistic Revival, culminating in a National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in 2024. As part of that, our Parish will host a Vatican Eucharistic Miracles Display, Feb. 5-7. Then the following Sunday, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, will hold a Eucharistic Procession from the Church to Beardsley Park and afterwards have a Parish Picnic!

Dear Friends,

The new Congress, in its first week passed a Pro-life bill: the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act; except that 210 members of the House of Representatives voted against the bill. They voted against requiring an abortionist to care for a child they failed to kill if that child is born alive.

Dear Friends,

I’ve often thought that if I were stranded on a deserted island or in solitary confinement and had only one book to read, it would be something written by Pope Benedict XVI. His writing is brilliant, lucid, and always thought provoking. He was certainly one of the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century and very likely the wisest theologian to ever occupy the Chair of St. Peter.

Dear Friends,

Many of you have asked me about the case of Frank Pavone, lately a priest. He is the founder of the Prolife group, Priests for Life. In November he was permanently removed from the priesthood by the Vatican, in a case that was ruled “without appeal”. That sort of final ruling could only be issued by the Pope. The case is disturbing, though not surprising and leaves more questions than answers.

Dear Friends,

2022 is the year that was. But was it a year to remember, or your favorite year? Was it the Best Year Ever, maybe a Year in the Life of a Fool? Or was it more the Days of Wine and Roses or a time we’d rather forget?

However, those 525,600 minutes of those 365 days or those 31,536,000 seconds of the 52weeks of 2022 passed by I hope you can find many reasons for gratitude and thankfulness.