25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Epiphany Family,I am writing this short article on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. I am sure we all have our own vivid memories of that day. I had recently moved back home with my parents and had begun a new full-time job after graduate school. I first heard about the attacks in a cubicle […]
Labor Day: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Epiphany Family,As by now most students have returned to school. It was hard for me to believe that both my oldest nephew and oldest niece have begun their first year of college. I made sure to check in on them via text and let them know of their opportunities to go to Mass and […]
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Epiphany Family, Eucharistic Exposition/Adoration will be offered again, now on Wednesday afternoons from 3pm until Mass at 6pm at our St. Thomas campus, starting Wednesday, September 1st. This special opportunity to be with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament will be offered in the main body of the church. Please enter through the ramp door […]
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear Epiphany Family, Happy Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary! It is not often that we are able to celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a Sunday. It is one of the Church’s holy days of obligation (or “opportunity” as I like to remind people) here in the United […]
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Epiphany Family,I had a restful and relaxing time with my family on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains a couple of weeks ago. Seventeen out of nineteen of us were able to be together (my second oldest brother and his oldest son were not able to join us). Having time to rest and get […]
12th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Dear Epiphany Family, Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ – 1 Peter 2:4-5 These two […]
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Epiphany Family,I write on the eve of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, or Corpus Christi. What an incomparable gift we have in the Catholic Church in which the very sacrifice of Christ and His resurrection is made present to us at each Mass! An incomparable gift in which […]
Most Holy Trinity
Dear Epiphany Family, I write on the beautiful Solemnity of Pentecost and this article appears here for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, two awesome feasts which draw us closer to God, Who is love, unity, and a union and communion of Persons. Through our baptism we share in the life of the Trinity […]
Pentecost
Dear Epiphany Family, Happy Solemnity of Pentecost! The outpouring of the Holy Spirit is still available to us today. We are tem-ples of the Holy Spirit and when we invite the Spirit into every aspect of our lives we are consoled, guided, loved, given power, and more. Come, Holy Spirit! Come Holy Spirit, and renew […]
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Dear Epiphany Family, Congratulations and blessings to our eight young people who were confirmed this past Saturday and our 10 children who received their First Holy Communion this past Sunday! It is a great joy for me as a pastor to see our children draw closer to Jesus and deeper life with Him through the […]