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Our Traditions / Tradiciones – Español/English

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION The disciples gathered on the fiftieth day after the Resurrection were not keeping their first Pentecost. For them, Pentecost was the fiftieth day after Passover, a feast of the first fruits of the harvest. It was the second most important feast of the year. Today, Jews gather on the eve of the feast to study scripture and the law, and after the feast begins…

Our Traditions / Tradiciones – Español/English

TESOROS DE NUESTRA TRADICIÓN Regresando a los tres pilares de la conversión, el ayuno es mucho más que el simple hecho de no comer, es aprender a negarme a mí mismo para que ya no sea yo quien vivo, sino Cristo que vive en mí. Es el negarme de ciertas cosas para dar vida a los demás. El ayudar es poner en práctica la caridad y la…

Youth Group Change of Day

YOUTH GROUP (change of day.. no longer on Thursday) (Every Friday @ 5 pm) Youth group ages 13-17 YOUNG ADULTS GROUP (Every Friday @ 7 pm @ Hall) young adults ages 18-30 Come meet other youth, share your faith and have fun.

Our Traditions / Tradiciones – English/Español

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION It’s Independence Day week, and there is a link worth tracing between the Declaration of Inde-pendence and the language of liturgy. One of the signers of the Declaration on that July 4 long ago was Charles Carroll, probably the wealthiest man in the colonies and one of the few Catholics on the political scene. As a flourish to…

Happy Father’s Day—Feliz dia de Padre

Because you are the image of God our Father on earth, and you have the mission to take care of those you love the most. On this Father Day and always may God Bless you abundantly. Amen. Por que tu eres la imagen de Dios nuestro Padre en la tierra, y tienes la mission the cuidar a los que mas amas, que…

Our Traditions / Tradiciones – English/Español

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION If you could somehow transport a third-century Christian into your twenty-first-century Sunday Mass, once the initial shock wore off he or she would be more or less at home with the structure of the first part of the liturgy, the Word. The second part might be more difficult to comprehend. The stumbling block would be the book. We have a book, a missal that…