March 2018 - St. Ann's Parish

Homily – March 29 – Holy Thursday – Year B

Posted on March 31, 2018 by St. Ann's Webmaster

Today we witness something amazing. Jesus, a faithful Jew, celebrating the Passover on the wrong day. How did he miss that fact? The Passover is not celebrated on Thursday, it is celebrated on Friday night. So what happened? Let us explain this mystery. First how Jesus could have been so confused and we will actually find out the amazing, awe-inspiring, perfect timing of God, rather than error on ...
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Homily – March 24-25 – Passion Sunday – Year B

Posted on March 25, 2018 by St. Ann's Webmaster

This Sunday, I want to talk to you or teach you something that I have found to be incredibly important. Last Sunday, I told you that I did not know how to make you disciples, that I couldn’t make you disciples but Jesus could. I also asked you to bring a journal, something to write down God’s word to you. Hopefully the ushers have handed you something to write on. So, how do you become a discip...
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Homily – March 17-18 – 5th Sunday of Lent – Year B

Posted on March 19, 2018 by St. Ann's Webmaster

A man in today’s Gospel said to Philip that he wanted to see Jesus. What would you say to a person who made this request of you? Today we conclude our five weeks of homilies on Discipleship. You could say we have been on a five-week cruise on the “Disciple Ship.” To refresh your minds of the points of this journey, we started off by discovering that we the baptized and are called to a mission, ...
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Homily – March 10-11 – 4th Sunday of Lent – Year B

Posted on March 10, 2018 by St. Ann's Webmaster

You have likely heard the saying, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” Well this Sunday’s First Reading definitely encompasses that. The Lord destroys His temple, uses pagans to punish Israel for their unfaithfulness, and then, using a different pagan king, He rebuilds the temple. We are now into week four of our series on discipleship. We started by affirming that we are all called to be disci...
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Who Was St. Patrick?

Posted on March 9, 2018March 10, 2018 by St. Ann's Webmaster

Not many facts are known about the life of St. Patrick. We know that he was born around 415 AD, and was a Roman Briton. When he was about 16, while he was tending his sheep some Irish raiders captured him and made him a slave. He eventually was able to escape and return to Britain. There he heard the call to return and bring Christianity to Ireland. He was ordained a priest, consecrated ...
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Homily – March 3-4 – 3rd Sunday of Lent – Year B

Posted on March 6, 2018 by St. Ann's Webmaster

A priest was watching a photocopier work and he thought to himself, “This is what a parish is supposed to do - make other copies of Christ.” As we continue our journey of discipleship, we have so far covered two topics. The first was how we are called through our Baptism to be disciples of Christ. The second was a disciple is one who accepts the love of God, God’s amazing love. It is good to de...
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