Gallery: Father Michael Rush’s Retirement Celebration at St. Damien Parish
Check out this gallery of photos taken during Fr. Michael Rush’s retirement celebration at St. Damien Parish.
From the Pastor’s Desk: Greetings from Fr. Tom Newton
With extreme gratitude to Bishop Sullivan, I begin my new assignment as the pastor of St. Damien Parish. As I wrote to my family and friends when I shared with them my new appointment, I am filled with feelings of profound excitement for this new adventure. I come to this …
Christ at Mass Reflection (July 19, 2020)
Be Careful When Pulling Out Weeds In today’s gospel, the owner of the field tells his servants to let the bad weeds grow together with the good wheat. There is a profound lesson here in how we should deal with people, especially our family members. Here is a tale of …
Christ at Mass Reflection (July 12, 2020)
Today we are told the seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest. And we don’t just hear it once. We hear it three times. It’s in our first reading from Isaiah [IS 55:10-11], it’s in our responsorial psalm (PS 65:10-14], and it’s in Matthew’s gospel [MT …
Know Your Fellow Parishioner: Gerard Burton
Altar server Gerard Burton is known for the extraordinary grace that he brings to his role. He would rather call it a humble effort to return through worship a little of what God lavishes on the world. “When I think of God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit,” he said, …
Christ at Mass Reflection (July 5, 2020)
Loss, illness, hunger, worry. The pandemic has thrown the world into conditions of potential despair. Is God angry with us? Has God forsaken us? Where is our salvation? Similar sorrows and questions accompanied the Israelites during their long Babylonian exile. In recent daily mass readings we have lamented along with …