Deacon Ray - A Pilgrim People Today, as we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, we mark the end of the Easter Season.  In the Gospel, God-in-the Flesh appeared to His disciples on Easter Sunday to send them forth with Peace.  In Acts, God-in-the-Spirit came at...

Disguised as Your Life Jesus promised the disciples that he would reveal himself to them through the Holy Spirit.  So, it is for us. Christ reveals himself to us through the Holy Spirit. Spiritual writer and storyteller Paula D’Arcy puts it this way, “God comes to you...

Discovering Life Before Death That’s quite the story we just heard, a dead man coming out of a tomb. As they’d say down at Floyd’s Bare, “Heck of a story.” The question Jesus asks Martha is the question that he asks us. “I am the Resurrection and the life. Do you...

As you know over the years our parish has participated in a partnership with Jesu Cristi Resucitado Parish in San Felix, Venezuela. It’s part of our archdiocesan mission effort. I served in the mission in Venezuela for five years back in the eighties. You’d never know...

From the opening line of Mt. 4:1, today’s Gospel passage, “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness...” Is the wilderness a scary place?  It could be. For sure it’s not a fun place like the beach is on spring break. In high school I always wanting to go to Fort...

DOWNLOAD LENTEN MENU A friend of mine called and asked if I could visit his brother-in-law who was in the hospital. I said “Sure”. But then he warned me. “George hasn’t been to church in years so don’t expect any miracles.” The next day I’m standing at the door of...

Today’s readings remind me a bit of Charles Dickens’ classic novel: A Tale of Two Cities.  In that book, Dickens juxtaposes the relative peacefulness and prosperity of late 18th C London against the increasingly dark descent of Paris into revolutionary excess, chaos...

Stand By Me Video Link So, the story goes a little parish on the Wisconsin and Minnesota border had just completed building their new church. There was but one thing that remained. What color would they paint the front door of the church?   Half the parish were Packer...

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord. When you think about baptism what comes to mind for you? When I was a kid, I was taught that baptism “removed the stain of original sin”. Hearing that I thought of the water used in baptism as a sort of...