St. Thomas the Apostle
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We celebrate the Feast of Pentecost today, and we also celebrate being able to receive Jesus in the Eucharist, if we so choose. Actually those two realties are closely connected. The coming of the Holy Spirit for the first time upon the Apostles at Pentecost brought the presence of Jesus again in a real way to those followers of The Way of Jesus. The receiving of Jesus’s Body in the Eucharist brings the presence of Jesus to us who have been deprived of His sacramental presenc

Today we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus. It recalls that Jesus after his resurrection returned to his Father in heaven, and promised to send the Holy Spirit to his followers to be with them until the end of time. Now that is some promise! We have two different presentations of the Ascension in the New Testament. One in the Gospel of Matthew we heard today and the other is in the Acts of the Apostles, the book that tells stories of the primitive church after the Resurrection

We are moving along with these Sundays after Easter toward the Ascension of Jesus next weekend, and the coming of the Holy Spirit for the first time upon the Apostles at Pentecost. Jesus continues to remind all of us that His Spirit, the spirit of love and peace for all, was promised to his followers to enable them to go out and share the Word of God with others. We are those followers today, who received the Spirit of God at our Baptism. This same Spirit who brought Jesus ba

Happy Mother’s Day to each of you women who are Mothers, or who have acted as mothers with someone in your lifetime. Many of you who may not have had your own family, have guided and helped form others along the way of life, too. May that role always bring you a bit closer to our loving God, as you share love and care in your unique way. Since we are still in the “sheltering at home” mode, I read with joy the words of Jesus in the Gospel today. He said to his disciples "DO NO