Hello my friends, this is Fr. Andrew. With Advent around the corner we close our liturgical year. It was the Year of Faith. We give thanks for this time of deepening our relationship with Jesus.
Please help us stock the St. Clare SVDP Food Pantry! We are grateful for your contributions of non-perishable food, drink, and household items. Here are some suggestions. There are SVDP collection baskets near the doors in church...
Our faith not only upholds the concept of an afterlife but also invites us to see death and resurrection as everyday occurrences. Do you remember the Gospel Story of last Sunday? What will we be afterlife? What is heaven like? God calls us to have faith in his love, presence and to have “resurrection eyes”. Any loss we experience is a kind of "death". We grieve over unwelcome change in our lives but the good news is that even as we suffer over our losses...