St. Thomas the Apostle
Catholic Community

Happy Independence Day weekend to each of you. No matter if you are planning special family activities away from home or preferring to stay home, may we pray together for UNITY in our nation, and a fresh spirit of EQUALITY for ALL. As I shared in a website reflection a few weeks ago, I feel we all need to examine ourselves to see how what we may think and feel about other cultures in our nation,and strive harder to truly treat EVERYONE with dignity and respect, no matter who

Thank You to all who have been able to rejoin us here at St. Thomas the Apostle for the weekend or Friday Masses. We are especially grateful for your collaboration of wearing masks and social distancing, because we know we are doing so with EVERYONE ELSE in mind, and being especially caring for those who may be more vulnerable among us. We take this care so that those who need extra attention will continue to be able to do so in our loving community of St. Thomas the Apostle

Isn’t it interesting that as we are returning to ORDINARY !me in our liturgical calendar for worship, we are also beginning to return to our ordinary lives a bit more since the beginning of the “Stay at Home” directives of March. Can we do so with a total return to normal living again? I rather doubt that it is possible. If we are living our Chris!an faith, we do need to be be"er aware of the more vulnerable among us, and take care that we are conscious of their needs, as wel

Before we return to Ordinary !me in our liturgical year, we have one more Sunday of special remembrance. Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus, formally known as Corpus Chris!. How appropriate that we are beginning to return to the celebration of the Eucharist and receive Jesus sacramentally now. Jesus gave us this special gift of Himself at the Last Supper with his followers. He wanted to be with them, and with us, into the future in a specia