Pastor’s Corner

“Cursed is the man who trusts in mere mortals.” Wow, that pretty much sums up my whole life. It is amazing to think that all we have trusted in is a curse. Does that ring true in our lives? Have we only trusted in ourselves and our strength or do we really trust in God? If we trust in God, we need to surrender to God. The Beatitudes are commonly known among us. Most of us would be able to quot...
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I have heard that when the Beatles would appear on stage that many young ladies would scream and faint at their mere presence. Quite an interesting phenomenon when you think of it. The Beatles did not give out money. They were not going to marry their teenage fans. They mostly likely did not even love their fans. They did not feed their fans. They did not give them life changing advice. So what d...
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First of all, I would like to thank the people who built this church for not building it on a steep hill or a cliff like Our Lady Of Perpetual Help in Fort Alexandra is. It makes me feel much safer to be able to say the things that might be difficult that I have to tell you today. Can you imagine how mad the people of the Gospel were today? So angry, in fact, that they tried to throw Jesus...
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Law is relationship. When we dig into the idea of Law, it is really around relationship in order that people may have one. In the First Reading today, we hear how the Israelites, after coming back from a seventy year exile, are rebuilding Jerusalem. While they are fixing the temple, they discover a book of the Law and now they are reading it. They went into exile because they did not keep the Law...
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Have you ever being in a situation where you have been indignant about what has happened to another individual? Maybe abuse or injustice. You are furious but that individual is not too excited, perhaps even making excuses about why the other person had to be abusive and you are not having any of it. This is the way the First Reading sounds: for Zion’s sake I will not be silent. This says that so...
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A sidewalk preacher came across a man who looked a little down and out. The preacher yelled at the man, “Do you want to find Jesus?!” and the man said, “Sure!” So the preacher grabbed the man, baptized him on the spot in a tank that he had for such occasions. When he pulled the man out the preacher asked him, “Did you see Jesus?” The man said, “No.” So the preacher dunked him again, this time f...
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It is said that after the wise men came and gave their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, the three wise women came and gave them a one year supply of diapers, some casseroles and free babysitting. I mean seriously, why these gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh? A comedian, Tim Hawkins, said, “Have you ever listened to the song about the star, and the tail and sheep speaking?” He goes ...
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One of the things that stands out to me when I read this Gospel is the obedience of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. Not obedience under their terms but under God’s terms. There was such a loving trust of God that He worked all for their goodness. I have often read over the text with pretty glossy eyes thinking that the lives of Mary and Joseph were easy lives and there were no real challenges, but, in fa...
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Pope St John Paul II was found him lying prostrate on the floor in his private chapel. Thinking him not well, his guards picked him up to discover he had only been deep in prayer. The guard apologized, “Sorry, sorry. We were worried about your Holiness.” ‘Your Holiness’ is a title given to the pope. The pope smiled and said, “I, too, am worried about my holiness.” It is interesting to n...
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It is a great and noble thing to meditate on what happened this day many years ago, that God became man and lived among us. He did not just become man but He became a little, small, vulnerable baby. I am sure that it is easily understandable that God would come here powerful, ready to destroy, scaring people back into order, yet He did not come to us in that way. It is really shocking that God wo...
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