Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
1. On several occasions one gets a person’s reply to request for help, “I cannot help you; I have no time.” At times complaints are made “Peter is spending much time at the Beach or Eveline is losing her time, she is lazy.” Some others never have time for [Read More]
Dear Parishioners,
Instructions from the Chancelry (continued )
Distribution of Holy Communion Outside of Mass by an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion 2025
b. Where it is the practice for an extraordinary minister to [Read More]
Distribution of Holy Communion Outside of Mass by an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion 2025
1. Members of the Catholic faithful must be delegated by the diocesan bishop to function as extraordinary ministers of holy communion, even to their spouse and members of their own [Read More]
Instructions from the Chancelry (continued )
On the manner of distributing and receiving Holy Communion during Mass
16. Because, according to law, communion is received standing in the United States, pastors are not free to [Read More]
Dear brothers and sisters,
We begin our annual pilgrimage of Lent in faith and hope with the penitential rite of the imposition of ashes. The Church, our mother and teacher, invites us to open our hearts to God’s grace, so that we can [Read More]
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
1. Today, we begin the season of Lent, the special time set aside for proper self-examination, intense spiritual activities to ensure that we are steady in our [Read More]
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
1. It is impossible to dissociate us from our backgrounds, from our upbringing. A great deal of whom we are dependent on how we were brought up. Many of the things we learned [Read More]
Instructions from the Chancelry On the manner of distributing and receiving Holy Communion during Mass
1. Holy Communion during Mass is distributed according to the [Read More]
Dear Parishioners,
Below is the formula of how to go for Confession;
1. You always have the option to go to confession anonymously, that is, behind the screen or face to face, if you so desire.
2. After the priest greets you [Read More]
Homily for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle C SAG)
On this sixth Sunday in Ordinary time, the liturgy of the Word speaks to us in ways that reach deep into our senses and can evoke in us a [Read More]
Dear Parishioners,
Let us now turn to the precepts of the Church;
1. Keep the Sundays and holy days of obligation holy, by hearing Mass and resting from hard work; the questions to be asked here are [Read More]
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
1. The world around us is made up of experts, in one field or the other. We have builders, carpenters, mechanics, tailors, typists, fishermen, sailors etc. Imagine one of them advising the [Read More]
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ.
1. Today, we join the universal Church to celebrate the feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. this feast reveals Jesus to us as Savior and Light to the nations, who comes into the world to dispel[Read More]
Dear Parishioners,
As we ended last week, we went through the first three of the Ten Commandments as one of the ways to examine one’s conscience to make a good confession.
Today we shall begin with[Read More]
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
1. In September 2019, Pope Francis declared that “the third Sunday in OT is to be devoted to the celebration, study, and dissemination of the Word of God… for we urgently need [Read More]
Examination of Conscience
1. Introduction: It is close to seven months since I became the Pastor of St. Agnes and Our Lady of the Snows Parishes. My primary role is to [Read More]
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
When a priest or a bishop is newly ordained, there is for him a solemn Thanksgiving Mass during which he is [Read More]
Dear Parishioners, after the miracle of the loaves (cfr Mk. 8:1ff) he cured a blind man at Bethsaida (v. 22-26) and then embarked first on his own identity test: “Who do people say I am?” (v. 27). Of course, if you do not know who [More]