Aug. 23, 2026 This week, as I mentioned at Mass previously, we are attaching a short rundown of the finances of the parishes from the last year. We once again finish the year in the black, in spite of how the totals appear on the sheet. The expenses were higher than the income, however much of the funds used for expenses were previously saved up and didn’t come from the income of the last year, so in reality we have come out ahead again this year. This is all thanks to the ge

Aug. 16, 2026 God placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil right smack in the middle of the Garden of Eden and commanded Adam & Eve to never eat from it. But, I have wondered if maybe God would let them eat it at some other point in time in the future. I did read someone's thought that maybe after Adam & Eve would've matured spiritually, God might've said ok, go ahead and eat from it. However, scripture states God said if they did eat from it, "[they] will surely die".

Aug. 9, 2026 Question: I have wondered about at the Last Supper, was the bread and wine actually the body and blood of Christ even though he was alive at the table at that moment? In other words, was that event the very first transubstantiation of the bread and wine in history that occurred? So, the first Last Supper with the disciples was bread and wine then I would imagine breaking an actual loaf of bread caused crumbs. Also, the Early Church would have used leavened or unl

Aug. 2, 2026 After last week’s article in the bulletin inviting others to send in questions they may have, I was happy to receive a couple emails with some good questions being posed that people were genuinely wondering about. I will try to get to them all and any others that come in over the next few weeks. The first question we will look at is: If someone has a child who is living a homosexual lifestyle and is planning on getting “married” to a person of the same sex, as a

July 26, 2026 The last few weeks have been busy, and in general it has been a busy summer at the parish so far. All the while I have been racking my brain trying to decide on what to write for the next series of articles for the bulletin. I have had a number of good suggestions from others along with my own mediocre ideas. I believe that for the time being I will take one of the suggestions and use the space to answer some questions and possibly provide some clarity to concre

June 28, 2026 As we will be celebrating Independence Day this week, during the 250th year since the birth of our nation, it is a good opportunity to reflect a little on those who by cooperating with God’s grace and accepting His gift – helped bring this nation into being. There seem to be many rumors and purely misinformed or intentionally misguided attempts at removing any religious connection between the founding of our nation and the founding fathers. Those who call themse

June 7, 2026 It has been a few weeks since I wrote something for the bulletin. I am generally not a spontaneous sort of writer; I need to have some long-term plan or goal in mind. This is one of the reasons why I have not written anything recently, I am attempting to figure out the next series that will be undertaken. Keep in mind, the series on heretics started in July of 2023. They say that when Robert Babington Macauley finished his sweeping history of England from the Rom

April 19, 2026 As I had written a few weeks ago, we are going to finish up our look at the heresy of Modernism and by that we will be coming to an end of this series on heresies that has lasted the last couple of years. To refresh everyone’s memory, I mentioned that we were going to look at two specific things to see how far the modernist errors have gone in the Church and in the lives of Catholics. By comparing two distinct instances that look unrelated on the surface, we ca

We are privileged to know that our Lord Jesus Christ, by undertaking the Paschal mysteries of His Passion, Death and Resurrection has offered us an opportunity to overcome the evil one and his snares.

March 15, 2026 It has been a couple of weeks now since we left off in our little - highly abbreviated - journey through what can be called one of the three worst heresies: Arianism, Protestantism and Modernism. If you recall, we found ourselves looking at an actual headline form the New York Times announcing that Pope Paul the VI had “cancelled the antimodernist oath”. Notice how it was carefully framed using the negative “anti”. It could have easily been titled “Pope cancels

Heresy preys upon the human weakness to pride and disordered curiosity.

Another element of modernism that we find often is a relativism in regard to the Faith.

The heresy of Modernism can find its first fruitful seeds going back to the French Revolution which began in 1789.

The heresy of modernism is difficult to define in simple terms; however, we will try our best.

As we may remember, heresy is generally divided into a few categories.

By celebrating the Nativity followed by the feast of the Holy Family and the solemnity of Mary the Mother of God, we now find ourselves celebrating the Epiphany of the Lord.

Oct. 12, 2025 Part of the Fátima message is that God is asking us to make reparation for the sins of the world. The Angel in 1916 taught the children prayers of reparation and asked them to do penance. The Blessed Virgin also called for prayers and acts of reparation, and, on July 13, 1917, she promised that she would return to request a special kind of reparation. She did this in 1925, appearing to Lucia, now a novice in a Spanish community. “Look, my daughter, at my Heart,

Sept. 7, 2025 It is hard to believe that it is already September, and autumn is shortly upon us. While the cooler temperatures bring some...

August 10, 2025 It has been an interesting summer thus far, in terms of weather and in the things that have been going on around us. We...

July 6, 2025 As we know the month of July is devoted to the Precious Blood and it follows on the heels of June which is the month of the...