2021 archive of Blog
September 12, 2021: Building a Community of Joy
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 9/11/21
Once upon a time in the old country, there was a tiny town in a wine-producing region of Eastern Europe. The Bishop was scheduled to visit them, and so they all met, “We must host a great celebration in the Bishop’s honor.” `
They devised a ... Read More »
September 5, 2021: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 9/04/21
August 29, 2021: What's in your Backpack?
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 8/27/21
August 22, 2021: Our Response to COVID
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 8/21/21
At the beginning of Mass, I asked you to introduce yourself and describe your favorite junk food.
We all have something. Mine is French Onion Sun Chips. Golly, I could eat a whole bag in one sitting. Did you know that there are 383varieties of chips at ... Read More »
August 15, 2021: May We Magnify
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 8/14/21
Reflection by Molly Weyrens, Pastoral Associate
August 8, 2021: Questions
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 8/07/21
As you students are getting ready for school, I have a true story for you. A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good ... Read More »
August 1, 2021: Do the right thing
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 7/29/21
Once a woman said to her husband, “The car won’t start.” “What’s wrong?” he answered.
“There’s water in the carburetor.” “That’s impossible.” “There’s water in the carburetor,” she replied again. “Where’s the car?” he asked. “In the pond down the road.”
Strange things happen. Strange things ... Read More »
July 25, 2021: Gifts to be shared
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 7/24/21
Here is a true story reported in the Boston Globe earlies this summer: Seventeen-year-old Verda Tetteh was the valedictorian of her high school class this year at Fitchburg High School in central Massachusetts. A brilliant student, Verda plans to study biochemistry at Harvard, on her way to a ... Read More »
July 18, 2021: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 7/16/21
Presided by Fr. Eb Schefers.
July 11, 2021: Shaking the Dust
Posted by Jennifer Adams on 7/10/21
Reflection by Molly Weyrens, Pastoral Associate.