4th Sunday of Easter | 25 April 2021 “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” ~ John 10:11 Brothers & Sisters, Happy Good Shepherd Sunday! Tending to sheep or a herdsman is certainly not as common a profession as in biblical times. So, most likely, our understanding...
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Fr. Mike’s Communication for the April. 18, 2021
3rd Sunday of Easter | 18 April 2021 “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Luke 24:36b-37 Brothers & Sisters, “The peace of the Lord be with you always.” Our hearts long for a deep peace, a peace beyond all understanding. We place our...
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Fr. Mike’s Communication for the April. 11, 2021
2nd Sunday of Easter | 11 April 2021 “With great power the apostles bore witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great favor was accorded them all.” – Acts 4:33 Brothers & Sisters, Happy Easter! Regularly proclaimed during the Easter season, the Acts of the Apostles detail the beginnings and rapid growth of...
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Fr. Mike’s Communication for the April. 4, 2021
Easter Sunday | 4 April 2021 “On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb.” – John 20:1 Brothers & Sisters, Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! Alethos Anesti! Truly he is risen! This...
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Fr. Mike’s Communication for the Mar. 28, 2021
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion | 28 March 2021 “Let her alone. Why do you make trouble for her?” Mark 14:6 Brothers & Sisters, In the Gospel of Mark, as the passion of our Lord, begins, Jesus rebukes his disciples after they witness an anonymous woman break open an alabaster jar of expensive perfume...
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Fr. Mike’s Communication for the Mar. 21, 2021
5th Sunday of Lent, Passiontide | 21 March 2021 “I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” – John 12:27 Brothers & Sisters, I honestly have prayed that this pandemic would pass....
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Fr. Mike’s Communication for the Mar. 14, 2021
4th Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday | 14 March 2021 And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might...