For almost 20 years, I have proudly served as a priest in Ocean City, New Jersey, and for the past nine years as your pastor here at St. Damien Parish. It has been an honor and privilege to lead such a vibrant and unified Catholic community anchored in God’s love. …
As a preview to Easter week and a timely parallel to the COVID-19 events we are currently facing, all of today’s readings tell us of death yielding to a new way of life. In the first reading [EZ 37:12-14], the prophet Ezekiel urges the exiled Israelite people in Babylon to …
Christ uses parables as an important teaching tool. We have some difficulty engaging their impact because we have grown up hearing them. We tend to think of parables as touchy-feely stories of God’s love. Actually, parables always have an unusual twist. Christ’s original audience would have been puzzled or disturbed …
Amidst one of the most troubling times in modern history, St. Damien Parish is happy to announce that we will begin live streaming some of our Masses and services beginning this weekend. We have created a streaming setup that will give viewers at home the same impression that they are, …
Join Pope Francis this Friday, March 27th, 2020, at 1 p.m. ET as he invites all members of the faithful and other Christians to #PrayTogether in an effort to bring the world together in this difficult time. During this special service on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the following …
For those of you who weren’t able to attend, we’ve uploaded videos from the St. Damien Parish Lenten Mission which was held March 9th through the 11th this year.
In recent years, society has changed its thinking about conditions like blindness, deafness and autism. Once considered defects or maladies, they are now understood as aspects of human variation—or, as a Catholic might say, ways that God brings certain of His children into the world. Our own parishioner Kierstyn Kuehnle, …
