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Learn Your Faith: The Season of Advent

The word “advent” provides us with much material for reflection on the meaning of the season of the liturgical year we call “Advent”. The Latin word advenire means “to come to”, “to reach”, or “to arrive at”. Meditating on the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, we may ponder the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ…
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Congratulations Nicholas Ward!

We congratulate Nicholas Ward, recipient of this year’s St. Augustine Medal of Service Award. Each year every parish in the diocese is invited to recognize one layperson who has distinguished himself or herself by selfless and generous service to the parish. Since I arrived here on July 1st Nicholas has served daily Mass for me…
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Know Your Faith

Death/La Muerte: At the end of the liturgical year the Church traditionally reflects on the “last things”, i.e. death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Tradicionalmente, al terminar el Año Litúrgico, la Iglesia medita sobre Los Novísimos: Muerte, Juicio Final, Cielo e Infierno.
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Mass Confusion: My Space

One Saturday afternoon I went to the church well before I was to hear Confessions. With the exception of Our Lord and me, our rather large church was completely empty. Sitting in the silence in a pew near the confessional I heard the door open and footsteps approach me from behind. It sounded like more than…
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