From The Pastor’s Desk

WHY DO WE GIVE TO THE CSA?

January 21, 2025

Dear brothers and sisters we had watched the CSA Video and we have listened to our Bishop Powers and some of our priests about what’s happening in our diocese, parishes…

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WHAT IS ADVENT? WHY DO WE OBSERVE IT?

December 10, 2024

The word “Advent” is derived from the Latin word adventus, meaning “coming,” which is a translation of the Greek word Parousia. Christians often speak of Christ’s “first advent” as a…

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WHY IS EUCHARISTIC ADORATION A RITE? (Part – 3)

November 25, 2024

12th – 20th CENTURIES: Then things changed as some said Christ was only symbolically present, as a mere memorial, not as a way of participating in His Sacrifice. This ‘forced’…

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ATTENTION: CHANGE IN PRACTICE | SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

November 5, 2024

What stays the same: In 2024, December 8 falls on the Second Sunday of Advent. Because the Sundays of Advent rank higher, the date of solemnity of the Immaculate Conception…

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“PRAY… REFLECT… DECIDE…”

October 29, 2024

Dear Brothers and sisters, as you all know its election time. Though I am not a US Citizen yet since I have been here in the USA for the last…

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THE EUCHARIST IS COMMUNION WITH CHRIST AND THE CHURCH (part -1)

October 1, 2024

I would like to reflect on the third essential truth about the Eucharist from “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church document. The Eucharist is Communion…

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BE TRULY PRESENT TO THE REAL PRESENCE.

September 17, 2024

BE TRULY PRESENT TO THE REAL PRESENCE. At the 1960’s Second Vatican Council, Saint Paul VI wrote, “This presence is called ‘real’ not to exclude the idea that the others…

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THE BREAD OF LIFE

September 3, 2024

To understand why the Church so firmly teaches that the Eucharist truly is the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, it would help if you…

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EUCHARIST IS THE REAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST.

August 27, 2024

“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is…

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THE EUCHARIST IS A SACRIFICE (Part – 4)

August 19, 2024

In John’s Gospel, which is rich in symbolism, it says that when the Crucified Christ was thirsty, “they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and…

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