Day of the Dead Ofrenda
What is Day of the Dead? “Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a primarily Mexican way of celebrating the feasts of All Saints Days and All ...
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time — Pastor’s Homily
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time: Mark 12:28b-34 When we hear the familiar words of Moses in the first reading, and then Jesus quoting Moses again in the Gospel: “You shall ...
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time — Pastor’s Homily
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Mark 10:46-52 I once worked with a missionary sister in Memphis. She was previously stationed in the Fiji Islands and was going to go to ...
Looking Ahead to Advent/Christmas 2021
Parish leadership is currently vetting this proposed schedule for the big Our Lady of Guadalupe feast, along with Christmas and Mary, Mother of God schedules, given the awkwardness of feasts ...
St. Joseph to Present “Healing Thanksgiving” Week
Nothing against either the greeting or the reality of “Happy Thanksgiving,” but giving the local and global realities of 2021, a “Healing Thanksgiving” may be the form that happiness takes ...
Saints Welcome to 6pm Mass During Prime “Trick-or-Treat” Hours
Our 6pm bilingual Sunday Mass October 31 falls during prime All Hallow’s Eve “trick or treat” hours in the parish neighborhood. Parish youth are welcome to dress as saints for ...
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time — Pastor’s Homily
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Mark 10:35-45. Today, in the Gospel of Mark, we continue with the theme of last week’s Gospel and we return to a theme of an ...
The Synod and You
by Luz Helena Escobar, parish director of evangelization Synod: Calling to walk and discern together. Path is a word that we use to describe our life, processes, directions, opportunities, decisions, ...
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time — Pastor’s Homily
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wisdom 7:7-11; Heb 4: 12-13; Mk 10:17-30. In the news this week, maybe you heard about Facebook getting into a heap of moral trouble, at ...
A Month of Grief for a World of Loss
COVID-19 deaths are now at more than 700,000 (and more than 100 in the parish family), many others have the added loss of significant property due to the September tropical ...