Adopt-a-Family. Christmas Food Baskets, Mercy Hospice Giving Tree
After an extended time with summer-like weather, I hope you are enjoying the cooler days of fall. As you have surely already noticed in the stores, Christmas preparation has begun. We have several parish initiatives that will allow you to give to those in need as you celebrate God’s great gift of his son, Jesus. For those of you not familiar with them or who would benefit from a little refresher, allow me to explain each of these excellent programs: Adopt-a-Family, Christmas Food Basket and the Mercy Hospice Giving Tree.
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Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
“I did not come to be served but to serve,” we hear Jesus declare after two of his disciples, James and John, asked to be seated at his right and his left when he established his kingdom. It sounds as if even his closest followers did not understand the Gospel that Jesus had come to proclaim – or, at least, they were unwilling to accept it. Like the Jewish leaders whom we hear Malachi condemn in today’s first reading and Jesus condemn in our Gospel, they were more interested in […]
Newcomers Coffee Sunday, November 5 after the 9:30AM Mass
The SKS Parishioner Engagement Committee, PREP and Faithful Families invite all parishioners – new and long-time worshippers – to our Newcomers Coffee this Sunday. Over 35 families have registered in the parish since our last Newcomers Coffee in June. Please help us welcome them to their spiritual home! There will be coffee, doughnuts, info about our ministries and activities for children.
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year A)
Isaiah 25:6-10a
This Sunday, we will again hear from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. Since it is from chapter 25, it would be understandable if you were to conclude that it is from Isaiah himself. There is lively debate among scripture scholars, however, as to where this chapter – and, in fact, chapters 24 – 27 belong historically. Many argue that it was written in post-exilic times during the period of Persian dominance. They make this argument because this section which, in many Bibles, is given the title of the […]