Hi again, parish family! When you’ve spent time with God in prayer, does it ever seem or feel like we’re the ones doing all the work? We feel like we’re the ones doing all the talking & we wonder if God is there &, if He’s there, is He even listening? We feel like we’re praying & praying, we’re putting in all this time & effort towards our relationship with God & sometimes it seems like we aren’t being met with an equal response from God.

Mother’s Day Blessings to all of our mothers, grandmothers, & those who have been mother’s to us. We remember in our prayers too all those mothers who’ve lost children, those who’ve suffered miscarriages, & all those who long to be mothers, but either can’t or haven’t been able to.

Last weekend, on Good Shepherd Sunday, I shared with you my vocation story, how I heard the voice of the Good Shepherd in God calling me to the Priesthood. The Good Shepherd’s voice is a voice that we are all called to hear & as we enter into this new month of May, I’d invite us to pray in a special way for those who have heard God’s call as I did.

On the Tuesday of Holy Week many of the priests of the Diocese gathered downtown with Bishop Malesic for the Chrism Mass at which all the Holy Oils that we use during the year were blessed & consecrated. Before the Mass, as has been the tradition for many years now, we gathered together with the Bishop for prayer & a meal.

To be a Cleveland sports fan is to, in many ways, be familiar with disappointment, with lost hope. Though moments of great joy & celebration do occur, the story of being a Cleveland sports fan is all too often a story of having hope increased that this might be the one, that this might be the year, only to have that hope dashed before the game or the year’s end.

The great message of God’s mercy is that no matter what our sin may be, no matter how despondent in our gilt we may be, God loves to forgive, He is rich in mercy.

Our Lenten journey of working with the expert, the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, to reshape & renew us has concluded & now we rejoice in the new life & the transformation that we have found! Rather than a time to go back to the way we were before Ash Wednesday, Easter is a time to embrace the empty tomb & walk forward a new creation.

   Hi parish family! It’s Angel, Fr. John’s companion and, as I like to think about it, his “boss”. My dad’s been a bit busy working with everyone to make sure that everything is ready for this week, so I told him that I would put together a little something for this week’s bulletin to help him out.

Conversion is a reality, I think, that while we know we need to undergo, many of us would rather do it on our terms. It’s much easier to change how we want to change, when we want to change, and to change what we want to change.

Hi everyone! It’s Angel here again with another episode of “ Angel’s Angle’s!” My dad has been busy over the past few days packing, so I’m giving him a paw again. He tells me that this Thursday he leaves for something called vacation. Dad says that while he’s on vacation, I’ll be on vacation as well at grandma’s. We’ll both leave this Thursday and we will see you again on July 11th.

In 2019, on the memorial of St. Jerome, September 30th, Pope Francis called the Church to celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God on the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. In the Preamble of the Introduction to the Lectionary for Mass we are reminded, “the word of God proclaimed in the celebration of God’s mysteries does not only address present conditions but looks back to past events and forward to what is yet to come.

 This week, as we enter into the season of Advent, we begin a new Church year, a new opportunity, a new invitation for the grace of God to be unfolded in our lives. What we celebrate in Advent is not so much our coming to God, but that we have a God who comes to us. What we see revealed in Jesus is that we have a God who takes the initiative, who doesn’t wait for us to make the first move towards Him, but rather who takes the first step towards us.

He is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! On behalf of myself & our entire parish staff, please know of our prayers for a most blessed Easter season! Even though we are celebrating & remembering today Jesus’ rising from the tomb, the reality we find ourselves facing is that we are still stuck in the tomb. In fact we have been stuck in the tomb for just over a year now. This pandemic has, in so many ways, disrupted & changed our lives.