I’d like to take a brief moment to offer my thanks to a pair of employees in our family of parishes, and also invite our parishioners as a whole to reflect on how we might better exemplify the golden standard of parish work that those two aspired toward during their time with us. Sadly (for us), both Kathleen Holt and Nancy Feverston have taken positions elsewhere and will be departing from us shortly. Nancy will be with us for most of the rest of the summer, but Kathleen will be starting her new position sooner than that. My internship pastor told me years ago that good parish secretaries are worth their weight in gold, and I have seen just how right he was. I am immensely grateful to both of them for the many times that they were waiting with a kind word for me or a visiting parishioner, and for the diligence with which they took calls, gleaned information, and sent it off in the right direction so that people could be anointed promptly, continue their sacramental prep, find the right form, or whatever was called for in the moment. Please keep them in your prayers as they move on from us. Click title for full column.

What is the absolute center of the Catholic Faith? The experience of Catholicism varies wildly and is unique to practically every Catholic, depending on factors like their history, culture, personal conversion experience, and so on. But regardless of what our Faith looks like in practice, and in spite of how unaware of this fact we may be, the absolute center of the Catholic Faith, the reality from which everything else radiates outward, is the Most Holy Trinity. This Sunday the Church celebrates Trinity Sunday, calling our attention back to the heart of the Faith so that we can reconnect the things we love most about being a disciple of Christ to the fullness of the Godhead. Click on title for full column.