St. Thomas the Apostle
Catholic Community

Dear Folks, It has been many years since sharing a regular bulletin column with you. With many new hearts beating with the Life of the Holy Spirit in our local Church, I thought a personal introduction would be helpful. God Bless you this Fourth of July weekend with true freedom, a freedom found only in Christ! Here is a beautiful prayer: God, source of all freedom, this day is bright with the memory of those who declared that life and liberty are your gift to every human bei

The time has come to say: “TILL WE MEET AGAIN” I will be moving on June 30 to the Motherhouse for the remainder of summer, and I will head to Mexico on August 24. I will definitely return to celebrate the retiring our debt party with you on August 1. I do not want to miss that joyous occasion to celebrate. Thank you all so very much for the blessings we have been able to share over the course of these 12 years. My role as Pastoral Leader at St. Thomas the Apostle has

I wonder how many of us at one !me or another in our lives have expressed the same or similar words that we hear in the Gospel today: “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” The mystery of suffering is one that humankind has struggled with for the majority of its existence. In Old Testament times, people believed that if life was blessed with good and many blessings, then they must have been holy, righteous persons. But if a person was poor or sick, or suffered in s

This weekend is the FARMER’S GOSPEL. We have two parables from St, Mark. The first is about how seed grows and how the farmer has to patiently wait for it, just like he does at this "me of year. The planting is done, or nearly so, and so nature has to take its course. This reminds us how, in our spiritual lives, we have to do some of the work. The farmer had to prepare the soil, plant the seed, maybe fertilize, and hope for the rains to water the fields. But we have to depend